{"id":2382,"date":"2013-11-28T08:55:35","date_gmt":"2013-11-28T08:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=2382"},"modified":"2013-11-28T08:55:35","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T08:55:35","slug":"pentax-dslr-camera-tethered-shooting-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2013\/11\/pentax-dslr-camera-tethered-shooting-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"Tethered shooting with Pentax DSLR cameras in Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/tethered-shooting-ubuntu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/tethered-shooting-ubuntu.jpg\" alt=\"tethered shooting in ubuntu\" width=\"250\" height=\"210\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2383\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This tutorial shows you a tethered camera control tool <b><i>pkTriggerCord<\/i><\/b> which is base on PKRemote. After you connect the camera to your PC with the USB cable, you can control the camera from pkTriggerCord, such as read status information, change settings, and take pictures. The pictures are stored in the camera&#8217;s buffer and can be downloaded to the PC. Pictures are not written on the SD card of the camera.<\/p>\n<p>Currently supported Cameras are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pentax K-x<\/li>\n<li>Pentax K10D (Samsung GX-10)<\/li>\n<li>Pentax K20D (Samsung GX-20)<\/li>\n<li>Pentax K200D<\/li>\n<li>Pentax K-7<\/li>\n<li>Pentax K-r<\/li>\n<li>Pentax K-5<\/li>\n<li>Pentax K-m \/ K2000<\/li>\n<li>Pentax K-30<\/li>\n<li>Pentax K-01 (bugs)<\/li>\n<li>Pentax K-5 II \/ K-5 IIs NEW<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/pktriggercord-screen1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/pktriggercord-screen1.jpg\" alt=\"pkTriggercord tethered shooting\" width=\"560\" height=\"360\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/pktriggercord-screen1.jpg 560w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/pktriggercord-screen1-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Install pkTriggerCord in Ubuntu via PPA:<\/h3>\n<p>Press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run commands below one by one to install the tool from PPA:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dhor\/myway\n\nsudo apt-get update\n\nsudo apt-get install pktriggercord<\/pre>\n<p>This will install pktriggercord on Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.10 and Linux Mint 16, 15, 14.<\/p>\n<p>Once installed, open the GUI interface from Unity Dash. Or run <code>man pktriggercord-cli<\/code> to check out command line tool usage.<\/p>\n<p>For RPM package and source code, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/pktriggercord.sourceforge.net\/\" title=\"pktriggercord homepage\">pktriggercord project homepage<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This tutorial shows you a tethered camera control tool pkTriggerCord which is base on PKRemote. After you connect the camera to your PC with the USB cable, you can control the camera from pkTriggerCord, such as read status information, change settings, and take pictures. The pictures are stored in the camera&#8217;s buffer and can be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[851,499],"class_list":["post-2382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-pktriggercord","tag-tethered-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}