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Understanding basics of remote camera controlling over USB port

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Around us, there are many computers available including your laptop, desktop, mobile phones, and mini-computers like RaspberryPi, Arduino, even your home internet routers. Any of these computers can be used to interact with the camera. Let's start with understanding existing apps in the market and their working. There are several apps already available for the Android and iOS platforms which can control most of the digital cameras over wifi, USB, or Bluetooth connectivity. Some of the good quality apps are listed below to try with your camera and mobile or laptop. This is just to understand how computers can handle different operations on your camera. DSLR Controller , DSLR Remote Plus , Camoodoo are some of the applications tried and tested with multiple cameras for your reference. If you see the core of these applications, all are based on PTP (Picture transfer protocol) or PTP2. Most of the new edge digital cameras including simple CC-TV cameras, DSLR, or even th...
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Software engineering and digital camera photography, trying to marry both, so that the community will get the best out of both the worlds. There would be many possible integrations when cameras can be controlled using computers. Some of the use cases are, remote image capturing, live streaming, managing camera settings, programmatically executing photoshoots, using Digital camera as a webcam, and many such things where computers can help bring in simplicity and accuracy while using new edge digital cameras. Under this series, I will be covering different use cases, aspects, ways, and options available to control cameras and make them smarter.
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