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Freedom from film
libgphoto2 2.5.33
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October 19th, 2025
libgphoto2, gphoto2 2.5.32
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July 6th, 2025
libgphoto2 2.5.31
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September 2nd, 2023
libgphoto2 2.5.30
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July 2nd, 2022
libgphoto2 2.5.29
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March 5th, 2022
libgphoto2 and gphoto2 2.5.28
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Jan 3d, 2022
libgphoto2 and gphoto2 2.5.27
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Feb 21st, 2021
libgphoto2 and gphoto2 2.5.26
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Oct 11th, 2020
libgphoto2 2.5.25
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May 24th, 2020
libgphoto2 2.5.24
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Feb 23rd, 2020
libgphoto2 and gphoto2 2.5.23
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June 2nd, 2019
Migration
was done to
Github
for code hosting and issue tracking. Sourcecode repositories are now on
github
, Issuetracking is also done on
github
now.
August 1st, 2015
gphotofs 0.5
has been released to include libgphoto2 2.5.x support.
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July 10th, 2012
Digital cameras have the balance of quality, features, and
price that appeals to users looking for a fast and convenient
way to get images into their PC. You can spend a lot more -- or
a lot less -- for one than the $100 to $3000 (or even more) these cost,
but you
won't like the quality at the low end or the prices at the high end.
With digital cameras, the best place to be is in the middle.
No other image-capture option for your computer matches the fun,
immediacy, and convenience of a digital camera. Unlike with a
scanner, you don't need an preexisting image: A digital
camera lets you capture what you see. And unlike film-to-disk
services, development is instantaneous: You don't have to wait
hours or days before you can use an image on your computer.
Operating a digital camera is also inexpensive, because the only
recurring cost is batteries. The camera's storage is reusable once you
download a batch of images. And since you don't have to pay for film
processing, you can go wild.
Unfortunately, many digital camera manufacturers refuse to share
their camera communication specifications with their customers and
millions of users who run free operating systems.
This is a big obstacle to development of free photo applications,
and it blocks free software developers from writing free programs,
that support the same features as the proprietary digital camera
programs for Microsoft Windows and MacOS that usually are shipped with
the camera. It renders the camera quite useless if you don't run
one of those proprietary operating systems.
Introducing gPhoto2
gPhoto2
is a free, redistributable,
ready to use set of digital camera software
applications for Unix-like systems, written by a whole team of dedicated
volunteers around the world. It supports more than
2700 cameras and media players
gPhoto2 runs on a large range of UNIX-like operating system, including
Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, MacOS X, etc. gPhoto is provided by major Linux distributions
like Debian GNU/Linux, Ubuntu, Gentoo, Fedora, openSUSE, Mandriva, etc.
libgphoto2 is freely available and distributed
under the terms of the
GNU LGPL.
; the other gphoto
programs are freely available and distributed under the terms of the
GNU GPL.
Newer libgphoto2 versions also support Media Transfer Protocol (MTP)
based media players since their communications protocol is based on
the Picture Transfer Protocol (PTP).
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