gPhoto has this functionality for some cameras.  There's a 'Take Picture'
option that you use.

Whether the Canon S110 can do it, though, I'm uncertain.  My Kodak DC280
doesn't like it, and gPhoto crashes.


--
Michael Vieths
Foeclan at Winternet.Com

On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:

> I'm considering getting a digital camera. the Canon S110 is just about
> everything I'm looking for, at a price that I can almost withstand. :)
> 
> this may be a stupid question, but:
> Is there any way to remotely control a camera like this? as in plug your PC
> into the USB interface, and remotely tell it to take shots, like a 'webcam'?
> it seems like a perfectly obvious thing to do with a camera; but whether the
> camera designers think so, is another matter. :|
> 
> Carl Soderstrom
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