I'm part of a lab doing research with aerial imagery with small (low-cost) UAV's. We need a camera and software that will support remote capturing plus downloading the pictures via the USB interface to an in-flight computer.
Previously we've accomplished this with PowerShot SX110's and gphoto, but there are less and less point-and-shoot cameras that are supported by gphoto anymore.
I've done some searching around on this wiki and forum, and it looks like CHDK does support remote capturing over USB, so that is good. My question is then can the pictures that are captured remotely then be grabbed off the camera to the on-board flight computer via the USB port? I saw some stuff about ptpcam and looked up the libptp library. Does CHDK support that functionality?
Also, can the settings for ISO, white balance, aperture and all that be set over the USB port?
We are looking at getting a couple S95's to work with if this can all be done. Thanks for any help you all can offer.