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I have three Sony Alpha 77M2 cameras, and I'm trying to take photos with all three simultaneously, and retrieve these photos. I can do the simultaneous shutter release using commercial remote triggers synced off a single transmitter, and I can control a single camera over USB using the Sony Remote Camera Control software - however this can't control more than one camera, and it won't let me run more than one instance on a single machine.

My question, therefore, is whether there is an API available for the USB remote control interface for these cameras? They don't support the WiFi API, so I can't use that (and WiFi isn't much use for the environment this system will be used in, due to the likelyhood of interference)

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It turned out that the camera supports enough of the PTP protocol for libgphoto to recognise it and retrieve the images in tethered mode - but not to control the shutter.

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  • Read the bug I sent you! You need to change the USB connection mode of the camera to PC Remote Control – Kiril Feb 27 '15 at 12:05
  • The link you sent was for the A7, not the A77 - different camera, with different things supported. As it is, the A77 is now supported by gphoto – Nick C Sep 30 '15 at 12:08