pyDSLR - Python Camera Control Made Easy

This library aims at providing an easy to use and fully typed interface to cameras supported by libgphoto2, allowing you to capture images and video streams much easier than with native bindings.

The main idea is to have you specify your camera config base class whenever working with the camera, allowing auto-completion of available options as follows:

from pathlib import Path
from pydslr.tools.camera import Camera
from pydslr.config.r6m2 import R6M2Config, ImageSettings, Settings, CaptureSettings

with Camera[R6M2Config]() as c:
    with c.config_context(
        R6M2Config(
            imgsettings=ImageSettings(iso="400"),
            settings=Settings(capturetarget="Internal RAM"),
            capturesettings=CaptureSettings(aperture="5.6", shutterspeed="2"),
        )
    ):
        c.preview_to_file(Path('preview.jpg'))

Installation

MacOS (via Homebrew)

brew install pkg-config libgphoto2 exiftool
pip install git+https://github.com/Zahlii/pyDSLR.git@main

Linux / Ubuntu

apt-get install libgphoto2-6 exiftool
pip install git+https://github.com/Zahlii/pyDSLR.git@main

Windows

• Install Zadig
• Install MYSYS2
• Install libgphoto2 for MINGW64: pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-gphoto2
• Install pkg-config for MINGW64: pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-pkg-config
• Install Python for MINGW64: pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-python
• Install msgpack for MINGW64: pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-python-msgpack
• Install rust (needed for some dependencies) for MINGW64: pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-rust
• Install psutil for MINGW64: pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-python-psutil
• Install Pillow for MINGW64: pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-python-pillow
• Install ninja (needed for some dependencies) for MINGW64: pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-ninja
• Install numpy for MINGW64: pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-python-numpy
• Install Pydantic for MINGW64: pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-python-pydantic
• Install using SETUPTOOLS_USE_DISTUTILS=stdlib pip install -r requirements.txt
• Plug in your camera, start Zadig, make sure the "Interface 0" of your camera is set to WinUSB (see picture below)

Adding new camera config types

• Connect your Camera via USB
• Run python script/create_config.py a7iv --class_name=A7IV to generate a new file inside app/config named a7iv.py containing the type definitions, with a base class called A7IVConfig.
• Open the result file, and rename the classes suffixed with P_ to something reasonable
• Open a pull request

Contributing / Running all checks & tools

poetry run isort .
poetry run black .
poetry run pylint **/*.py
poetry run mypy . --explicit-package-bases