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libgphoto2
==========

Hello and welcome to the wonderful world of gphoto! This is
libgphoto2, the successor of gphoto with lots of new features and
additional camera drivers.

If you miss a feature, would like to report success or failure, or
have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact our mailing list.

What is libgphoto2?
-------------------

libgphoto2 is a library that can be used by applications to access
various digital cameras.

For more information on gphoto, see

@URL_GPHOTO_HOME@

There, you can also get information on mailing lists, supported cameras,
and availability of gphoto2.

To get our sourcecode via git, use the Wiki or the issue tracker,
visit our github page at

@URL_GPHOTO_GITHUB@

Another source of information is

@URL_GPHOTO_PROJECT@

where you can access our old SVN server to fetch the old source code
of gphoto2, gtkam, libgphoto2.

What is libgphoto2 not?
-----------------------

libgphoto2 itself is not a GUI application, opposed to gphoto. There are
GUI frontends for the gphoto2 library, however, such as gtkam for
example.

libgphoto2 can only talk to cameras the language of those it
understands.  That is, if you own a camera that speaks a language that
isn't published anywhere and nobody has been able to figure out the
meaning of the sentences, libgphoto2 cannot communicate with those
cameras.

Then, there are cameras supporting the so-called USB Mass Storage
protocol.  This is a protocol that has been published and lets you
access any storage device, be it a camera or a disk connected via USB
to your computer. As there are already drivers for this protocol out
there, you don't need an additional library like libgphoto2. The list
of camera that use USB Mass Storage is getting longer everyday, so we
won't publish it.

For a more up to date list, you can consult

@URL_DIGICAM_LIST@

Your operating system will tell you about that because it is likely to
recognise the device as a SCSI disk that you can mount (for Linux
'dmesg' will tell you).  Again, those cameras *cannot* be accessed
through libgphoto2. Some of them can be switched to use a different
communication protocol and might be in that case useable with
libgphoto2.

Other camera support a protocol called PTP or USB Imaging Devices that
has been developped by Kodak and other. libgphoto2 does support
PTP. Also working will be cameras labeled as "PictBridge", which is a
extension to PTP.

Almost all cameras that are not mass storage support it these days,
including but not limited to all Nikon, Canon, Fuji, Sony, Panasonic,
HP and more.

PTP camera unknown to libgphoto2 will be detected as a generic PTP
camera and will work as-is without any changes.

MTP (Microsoft Transfer Protocol) capable devices will also be
accessible, since MTP is based on PTP.

Platforms
---------

libgphoto2 should compile and run on pretty much all Unix-like
platforms.  libgphoto2 has _not_ (yet?) been ported to any operating
system from MicroSoft.

How to set up libgphoto2
------------------------

For information on how to set up libgphoto2 and its frontends, see The
gPhoto2 Manual.

It is available at the following places:

* At the gphoto website: @URL_GPHOTO_HOME@

* In the git repo gphoto2-manual.git

The gPhoto2 Manual includes information about setting up USB
hotplugging.

If you run into problems, you may also consult the FAQ (also included
in The gPhoto2 Manual).

Frontends
---------

gphoto2 is a command line frontend which is quite powerful, especially
in combination with scripts. See The gPhoto2 Manual for a short
description.

For the GUI lovers, there are for example digikam (KDE), gthumb
(GNOME), f-spot (GNOME / Mono) and more. We also have a GTK2 reference
GUI called gtkam, which is unmaintained, its only special features are
capture abilitiy.

Additionally, there are plugins for other programs available like
kio_camera (KDE - Konqueror) and a fuse plugin, gphotofs.

Reporting Bugs
--------------

Every piece of software contains errors and flaws. So does
libgphoto2. When you encounter something that does not work, please do
the following:

1. Find out whether this is a known problem.

2. Reproduce the problem with debug output enabled and the language
   set to English, so that the development team will understand the
   messages. You can do this by running:

env LC_ALL=C gtkam

if you're using the gtkam frontend or running:

env LC_ALL=C gphoto2 --debug-logfile=logfile.log --debug <options>

using the gphoto2 command line interface.

3. Report the problem on the mailing list with the corresponding debug
   output if it is small. If it is more than a few kilobytes, please
   don't post the complete debug output on the list.

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