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by fooqux 265 days ago
Ooo, I'll need to look into this again. I worked with the devs from Darktable / gphoto a few years ago trying to get it to work and both sides eventually gave up because the output from the camera was just so far from any spec.

I've got a EM1mk2. I just tried it again with Darktable on Linux and it didn't immediately work. But now that I know it's supposedly possible I can look into permission issues or the like. I'll go through Darktables' troubleshooting steps for this.
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vladvasiliu 265 days ago
Does the camera actually support tethering? I also have a pen-f, and I don't have such an option when I connect it to a computer. I can only do it via the phone app, and it never worked well. The om1 works better with the app.

Apparently, when connecting to an external AP, it supports WPS, both PIN and button, instead of typing the full password. My AP doesn't support any form of WPS and I mistyped my password. That's five minutes of my life I won't get back...

Interestingly, the transfer from the camera seems slower with OM Capture than with Darktable, but it can configure basically all the camera's settings, including the High-Res, HDR bracketing, etc. It can also tell the camera to not save the files on its card (or configure which format goes on which card).

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fooqux 265 days ago
Yeah, it supports tethering. After fiddling with it for a moment (and reading the Darktable docs to discover I have to click the Mount Camera button first), I've got some semblance of tethering working. It's a bit slow and I can't figure out how to focus yet, but it can capture an image. This is pretty awesome.

Thanks for the heads up about this!

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