shot.sh

#!/bin/bash

#==============================================================================
# VERSION : 0.0.1
# LICENCE : GPL
# FILENAME: shot.sh
# PURPOSE : capture images with my canon Powershot S50 
# DATE    : 2004-05-30
# REVISION: 2004-05-30
# AUTHOR  : (c) 04.05.30 Bernd Luxenburger, bernd@rlux.de
# URL     : http://berndlux.de
# ORIGINAL: (c) 04.05.30 Bernd Luxenburger, bernd@rlux.de
# USAGE   :  easy remote capturing with the tools 
#         :  capture-1.0.1 (c) 2004 Petr Danecek 
#            http://www.ucl.cas.cz/~petr/plant-growth
#             based on 
#             ptpcam (c)2001-2003 Mariusz Woloszyn <emsi@ipartners.pl> 
#             ptpcanon (c) 2003 Nikolai Kopanygin 
#             http://www.jalkapallo.org/superkolik/canon.html 
# SW      : bash, the tools above
# SYSTEM  : GNU/LINUX
# INIFILE :  
# =============================================================================

CPATH="/usr/local/bin/capture"
DATE=`date '+%d.%m.%y-%H.%M.%S'`
 
if [ -n "$1" ] ; then
  FILE=$1
 if [ -f $FILE ] ; then
  echo "The file $FILE exists!"
  FILE="capture-$DATE.jpg"
 fi
else
  FILE="capture-$DATE.jpg"
fi
 
 
if [ ! -f  $FILE ] ; then
 
$CPATH "start"
$CPATH "flash off"
$CPATH "zoom 0"
$CPATH "metering spot"
$CPATH "focuspoint center"
#CPATH ""
#CPATH ""
#CPATH ""
$CPATH "capture $FILE"
 
echo "picture $FILE taken"
$CPATH "quit"
 
else
 echo "the file $FILE exists!"
 exit 1
fi
 
exit 0;