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Has anyone managed to control a digital camara (Kodak DC280 in particular) with a PIC? I've been unable to find information on the serial port (rs232 not usb) of the Kodak, the type of commands available and their format. My idea is to make a controller that can wake the camera up from standby, take a photo then shutdown the camara until the next shot. The shots would be timed at say 2 or 3 per day over a period of a couple of weeks. If anyone has any pointers to Kodak DC280 interface information I'd be gratefull. Thanks, Mike O'Neil -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email spam_OUTlistservTakeThisOuTmitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body

On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, mike oneil wrote: > Has anyone managed to control a digital camara (Kodak DC280 in > particular) with a PIC? I've been unable to find information on the > serial port (rs232 not usb) of the Kodak, the type of commands available > and their format. My idea is to make a controller that can wake the > camera up from standby, take a photo then shutdown the camara until the > next shot. The shots would be timed at say 2 or 3 per day over a period > of a couple of weeks. > If anyone has any pointers to Kodak DC280 interface information I'd be > gratefull. > Thanks, > Mike O'Neil Maybe "Digital Cameras on Fujitsu chipset"... http://www.average.org/digicam/ I don't know if Kodak is using Fujitsu chipset (Kodak was not listed in combatible cameras section), but maybe this helps someone. And on the same page there is url for Kodak dc20 - maybe the right for you... http://www.planet-interkom.de/oliver.hartmann/dc20secr.htm Has anybody made a remote shutter release for Nikon, maybe IR-remote release (I am still trying to find spare time to make one). "Keep your bullshit detector in good workin' condition." -Forrest Gump- -Tommi Paunonen -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email .....listservKILLspam@spam@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body

> If anyone has any pointers to > Kodak DC280 interface information I'd be gratefull. It's on the Kodak website. IIRC, you have to join the developers program which is simply filling out the form and waiting for the junk mail to start coming. It's a nice, straight forward protocol that looks like the embedded guys came up with it rather than the PC folks. Steve. ====================================================== Steve Baldwin Electronic Product Design TLA Microsystems Ltd Microcontroller Specialists PO Box 15-680, New Lynn http://www.tla.co.nz Auckland, New Zealand ph +64 9 820-2221 email: stevebKILLspamtla.co.nz fax +64 9 820-1929 ====================================================== -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email .....listservKILLspam.....mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body

On Thu, 19 Jul 2001 09:48:01 +0200, you wrote: >Has anyone managed to control a digital camara (Kodak DC280 in >particular) with a PIC? I've been unable to find information on the >serial port (rs232 not usb) of the Kodak, the type of commands available >and their format. My idea is to make a controller that can wake the >camera up from standby, take a photo then shutdown the camara until the >next shot. The shots would be timed at say 2 or 3 per day over a period >of a couple of weeks. >If anyone has any pointers to Kodak DC280 interface information I'd be >gratefull. >Thanks, >Mike O'Neil Kodak is about the only DC maker that DOES document their interfaces - you have to register as a developer to get the info, but last time I looked it's free to do this (they even sent me a T Shirt!). Look for DRG (Developer Resource Group ? ) - I think Kodak's DC division has a seperate website from the rest of Kodak. I don't know if it would be possible to wake the camera from standby via the serial port. -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email EraseMElistservspam_OUTTakeThisOuTmitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body

mike oneil wrote: > Has anyone managed to control a digital camara (Kodak DC280 in > particular) with a PIC? I've been unable to find information on the > serial port (rs232 not usb) of the Kodak, the type of commands available > and their format. My idea is to make a controller that can wake the > camera up from standby, take a photo then shutdown the camara until the > next shot. The shots would be timed at say 2 or 3 per day over a period > of a couple of weeks. > If anyone has any pointers to Kodak DC280 interface information I'd be > gratefull. > Thanks, > Mike O'Neil It's an Olympus camera (best I could do): http://www.edcheung.com/awards/pic2k/c0700cw1.htm See the base address and search around for further info. -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry linuxhaspam_OUThome.com http://members.home.net/ncherry (Text only) http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/lightsey/52 (Graphics) http://linuxha.sourceforge.net/ (SourceForge) -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email @spam@listservKILLspammitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body

> mike oneil wrote: > > > Has anyone managed to control a digital camara (Kodak DC280 in > > particular) with a PIC? I've been unable to find information on the > > serial port (rs232 not usb) of the Kodak, the type of commands available > > and their format. My idea is to make a controller that can wake the > > camera up from standby, take a photo then shutdown the camara until the > > next shot. The shots would be timed at say 2 or 3 per day over a period > > of a couple of weeks. > > If anyone has any pointers to Kodak DC280 interface information I'd be > > gratefull. > > Thanks, > > Mike O'Neil > Hey Mike, I think there's some digital cam info - kodak + others - at :- http://www.average.org/digicam/ www.lightner.net/lightner/bruce/photopc/ppc_use.html www.planet-interkom.de/oliver.hartmann/dc20secr.htm http://techref.massmind.org/cameras.htm Hartmann's page is pretty good. I've been thinking about doing a project like that - DC50+pic+LCD readout. Haven't done anything so far - any ideas would be most appreciated, though. Ian. -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email KILLspamlistservKILLspammitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body

mike oneil <Michael.O'RemoveMENeilTakeThisOuTCERN.CH> wrote: > Has anyone managed to control a digital camara (Kodak DC280 in > particular) with a PIC? I've been unable to find information on the > serial port (rs232 not usb) of the Kodak, the type of commands available > and their format. You've been given some good info specific to your camera, but I'd like to point out a good general source for digital camera protocol info: the source code of gPhoto (http://www.gphoto.org), a digital camera utility for Linux which supports hundreds of cameras. This may not be appropriate for all projects, as gPhoto is under the GPL and I have no idea what the implications are of having GPL'ed code embedded in a hardware device. Jason Harper -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList spamBeGonepiclist-unsubscribe-requestspamBeGonemitvma.mit.edu

I've done some basic stuff with the DC50 using both PIC and Basic STAMP. I got the developers docs. The DC20-120 all basiclly use the same commands. The DC20/25 use 8bitEP. The rest are 8bitNP. I think the DC240/80 use similar commands. The 220/26x/290 use digital scripting instead. Newer stuff is USB only. {Quote hidden}> Hey Mike, > I think there's some digital cam info - kodak + others - at :- > > http://www.average.org/digicam/ > www.lightner.net/lightner/bruce/photopc/ppc_use.html > www.planet-interkom.de/oliver.hartmann/dc20secr.htm > http://techref.massmind.org/cameras.htm > > Hartmann's page is pretty good. I've been thinking about doing a > project like that - DC50+pic+LCD readout. Haven't done anything so far > - any ideas would be most appreciated, though. Ian. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList TakeThisOuTpiclist-unsubscribe-requestEraseMEspam_OUTmitvma.mit.edu

> > If anyone has any pointers to Kodak DC280 interface information I'd be > > gratefull. > > Thanks, > > Mike O'Neil > Thank's to all who responded to my request! The full protocol (for the DC280 and other Kodaks) is downloadable from Kodak after joining the developers program. It doesn't seem too complicated, although there does not seem to be any way of waking the camera up from the 'off' state other than manualy switching on. There is however a 'sleep' mode which I'll need to test for current consumption. Mike -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.

Don't know about the DC280, but on the DC40-120 when you send a command in sleep mode they wake up and respond with data that indicates that is was woke up and you must resend data. I just used the watchdog to periodically send a command to keep the DC50 awake. I also set it to maximum time till sleep(4 min) in the init routine. {Quote hidden}> > > > If anyone has any pointers to Kodak DC280 interface information > > > I'd be gratefull. Thanks, Mike O'Neil > > > > Thank's to all who responded to my request! > > The full protocol (for the DC280 and other Kodaks) is downloadable > from Kodak after joining the developers program. It doesn't seem too > complicated, although there does not seem to be any way of waking the > camera up from the 'off' state other than manualy switching on. There > is however a 'sleep' mode which I'll need to test for current > consumption. > > Mike -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email RemoveMElistservTakeThisOuTmitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body