gPhoto is a free, redistributable, ready to use set of digital camera software applications, written by a whole team of dedicated volunteers around the world.
gPhoto supports not just retrieving of images from camera devices, but also upload and remote controlled configuration and capture, depending on whether the camera supports those features.
gPhoto provides a library, libgphoto2, to allow for other frontends to be written for it, and a command line interface. gtkam is the official GUI client for gphoto, other clients that are popular include the KDE program digiKam, the Mono based F-Spot, and the GNOME program gThumb.
Key Features
- Supports more than 1300 cameras.
- Remote operation functions.
- Picture Transfer Protocol (PTP) support.
- Connect to devices that use the Media Transfer Protocol.
- Supports almost any function supported by the camera’s firmware.
- USB image capture.
- Cross-platform.
Website: www.gphoto.org
Support: Documentation
Developer: Lutz Mueller, Hans Ulrich Niedermann, Christophe Barbe, Hubert Figuiere, Colin Marquardt, Marcus Meissner, Theodore Kilgore
License: GNU LGPL
gPhoto is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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|---|---|
| darktable | Virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers |
| digiKam | Digital photo management application with revamped camera support |
| gPhoto | Digital camera command-line client |
| ExifTool | Library and program to read and write meta information in multimedia files |
| RawTherapee | RAW image processing application |
| RapidRAW | Non-destructive, and GPU-accelerated RAW image editor |
| DCamProf | Digital camera profiling tool |
| Rawstudio | RAW image converter |
| nufraw | Import and edit RAW images from digital cameras |
| Entangle | Tethered camera control and capture |
| UFRaw | Standalone tool to import RAW data from high-end digital cameras |
| Kamera | KDE integration for gphoto2 cameras |
| fspy | Quick and easy still image camera matching |
| cameractrls | Set camera controls |
| rawbit | Camera RAW image preprocessor and importer |
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