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Nikon and capture image function from remote PC

I just figured out another nifty feature! The D70 has two USB connection modes, “mass storage” where the camera pretends to be an external hard drive, and PTP, which is an industry standard camera-computer USB protocol. Using PTP, it does not seem possible to download the camera contents with gphoto2, as I had with my […]

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Shell scripts for archiving digital photos in directories by date

The fact that most digital cameras store the shooting dates inside JPEG files in the EXIF format makes it possible to automatically archive the photos by date right after they are downloaded, which is exactly what the scripts below do. Here’s an example of a directory tree they create: 1999 1999-07 1999-07-14 IMG_48324.JPG IMG_48325.JPG IMG_48326.JPG […]

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Script to download pictures from camera and rename them etc

1. download photos from camera and sort them by date of day in folders 2. remove possible duplicates if I did not erase camera images since last download 3. convert RAW/NEF images to a usable format All this in one single click! #!/bin/bash # Change this to where to store Photos target=/home/multimedia/Images camera=”USB PTP Class […]

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