gphoto install

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Fri, 7 Jun 2002 15:03:54 -0400
Matthew Carpenter <matt at e-i-s.cc> wrote:

> I have little USB camera experience, but when setting up my dad's MDC8000
> for him, it was as simple as plugging it in and telling gphoto what and
> where is was (/dev/usb/mdc8000), which was exactly like what I did for the
> serial-connection.

I wish that were the case here. The Nikon 990 (and a bunch of other cameras
based on the same chipset) use a protocol not supported in gphoto/gphoto2.
At least last time I checked. One needed to use a user-land lib to
manipulate the USB, and then play the protocol over this interface.

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