DSLR camera support - Was: Kubuntu won't boot

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Wed, 28 Jul 2021 13:45:19 +0000, Tony Arnold wrote:
>Hi Ralf,
>
>On Wed, 2021-07-28 at 14:57 +0200, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users wrote:
>
>> Updates are not always our friends. I'm very very very very
>> muchexperienced with Arch Linux, Ubuntu and iPadOS updates on bare
>> metal.Not that seldom updates are a PITA. After Linux updates a power
>> usersometimes has to do a lot of work, to fix issues, on iPadOS you
>> canonly beg the developers to fix issues, to grant
>> backwardscompatibility, but often begging gains nothing at all and a
>> lot of yourwork is rendered useless. To be fair, this is work you
>> can't do withLinux machines at all, since in some domains (audio,
>> video andphotography come to mind) Linux software is way behind the
>> times(likely for several decades), for several reasons. If you e.g.
>> buy afull-frame DSLR camera today, you might get next year an ASP-C
>> DSLRcamera for half of the price, that is as good, as your
>> full-frame DSLRcamera today. Now take a look how many vendors of
>> DSLR cameras are inbusiness. Each of those companies provides
>> several product lines. Howshould Linux software for free as in beer
>> support all those cameras?  
>FWIW, darktable does a fine job of this.
>
>Regards,
>Tony.

Hi Tony,

I suspect it provides a data base for things like lens correction when
developing RAW images, but can it be used as a remote to move the image
sensor, to increase resolution when shooting stills? Can it be used as
a stop motion remote that shows onion skins? Or will the data base
contain data for the latest and greatest lenses?

Actually my Sony camera doesn't provide moving the image sensor, but
some cameras do. What I'm indeed doing is using stop motion software
connected by WiFi with my Sony camera, so I can see everything on a
huge monitor and way more important, I can use helpers such as onion
skins, so I see one shot clear, and as many shots before or after that
shot transparent, too. A raster might help, seeing green screen
results, e.g. loading different background while doing the shooting
etc. is helpful, IOW it's not just kind of remote, it's a real tool that
a camera can't provide. Even if the software would exist for Linux,
getting WiFi and/or Bluetooth to work could already be a showstopper.

Regards,
Ralf