I’ve just purchased a Canon A200 2.0 megapixel camera off eBay to use as a weather webcam. I intend using PSRemote from breezesys.com to take the pictures and wondered if anybody else had done a similar solution, or if anyone with programing experience had used the Canon SDK to build a simple camera control application. ?
TIA
There’s some info in another thread recently http://discourse.weather-watch.com/t/8570 using a Nikon, and I recently found this one using an olympus http://www.video-monitoring.com/usgs/ and http://www.video-monitoring.com/usgs/sswide.htm (it has been down some so the slideshow has some blanks but it does work).
If found your post while searching for information on using my spare Canon G1 as a webcam. I know of some people here in Vancouver, Canada who wrote software for an Olympus (http://www.katkam.ca/) but, like you, I’d like to know if there’s any way to utilize my Canon for this. I’ll post here if I find out anything interesting.
Ken
Unfortunately Canon isn’t on the photopc list http://photopc.sourceforge.net/ so they probably have something unique.
HI Ken,
This should do the job for you. http://www.breezesys.com/PSRemote/features.htm#ps and the G1 is in the supported cameras list. At $USD 49 its not a bad buy.
There is also software that you can download off the Canon website, but its nowhere near as good for “webcam” work as this is. If you are into programming Canon have an SDK available to code your own - but thats out of my league.
Brian if you read this thread there is also a DLL available. Maybe WD could drive a Canon camera as a webcam too. I’d be happy to pay for the license if you consider it a possibility.
PSRemote also includes a DLL and a sample program (complete with C++ source code) which allows other applications to release the camera's shutter and adjust the shutter speed and aperture. This opens up many exciting possibilities such as movement or sound sensors being used to trigger the camera for taking wild-life shots with this remote capture tool. Please see the readme.txt file in the PSRemoteTest directory where PSRemote is installed for details.
Colin,
Thank you for the info and link.
I’ll take a look at this and see if it will do the trick. I’m a real novice when it comes to programming so an application like this is the only chance I have. I’ll let you know when/if I get it working.
I’ve got a Canon G1 with the wide extension so it would be great to get some use out of it (I upgraded to a G3 and recently a 20D)
Thanks again.
Ken