Hi Brendan, 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. Loaded it onto my notebook Suse 12.1 and now the notebook will not boot and the desktop Evolution client will not load. 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. Lots of promise here. Many thanks 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:

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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,

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