It worked surprisingly well. It took a while to recognise the camera (Canon EOS 600D) but it may have been due to a low battery level. Have battery on charge ATM. Fired Camera which operated the flash.

Weird outcome. One could certainly set this up in a structure which secured the camera, and flash, remap the firing key to the Spacebar or a basic button, and somehow pinch the countdown code from "Cheese" for a 3,2,1... Fire.

Andrew Greig

On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Brendon Oliver <brendon.oliver@gmail.com> wrote:

On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Andrew Greig <pushin.linux@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Could someone direct me to a place or project where requests for ideas are
> canvassed? I would like to see a way to synchronise a flashgun with a
> web-cam. This could lead to a much better result from web-cam photography
> in low light situations. I know that the Digital camera manufacturers of
> DSLRs have (Win/Mac) software to fire the camera from a computer, so
> something in the Open Source realm could be a real boon.

Perhaps this might be a starting point:

http://entangle-photo.org/

I've not actually used it, but it appears to be slanted at controlling
DSLRs. It might provide a starting point for doing something with a
web cam.

cheers,

- Brendon
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