digital cameras

[Greg Fortune]

Looks like you're after the same thing I am and it looks possible if the 
camera implements PTP and an implementation of the protocol exists for 
Python.  TWAIN will do it as well, but I don't find any implementation 
under UNIX.  Please let me know if you discover anything useful...

Greg Fortune
Fortune Solutions

Ian McMeans wrote:

> Okay, thanks. I'll give TWAIN a try.
> 
> I want to make the camera take pictures, not just download them
> 
> "Milind Patil" <milind_patil at hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:<mailman.1051923726.21874.python-list at python.org>...
>> Hi,
>> 
>> All digital cameras support TWAIN image acquisition standard. Therefore,
>> the best way to make a portable
>> program in python is to extend python using the twain library.
>> 
>> 
>> "Ian McMeans" <imcmeans at telus.net> wrote in message
>> news:7f9e1817.0305021105.459267a at posting.google.com...
>> > I was wondering if there was a good way to work with digital cameras,
>> > something that isn't specific to a model of camera?
>> >
>> > I'm running windows XP, and I'm guessing most methods won't be
>> > cross-platform.
>> >
>> > I want to write a program that downloads an image from the camera
>> > (kind of like a webcam) but then does further processing on it.
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