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Re: V002 Camera Live – Zoom with Your DSLR as a Webcam via USB

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What's wrong with just"video call"?

Yeah that's what I've been using, guess I'm turning into an 'old' as evidenced by my hair now approaching ponytail length.

"Teams-meeting" has become the norm for video-conference. One of my annoying pet peeves is pointing this out and calling it "meeting on Teams" - if that's where it is.

Since I use up to 5 different platforms each day...

Re: V002 Camera Live – Zoom with Your DSLR as a Webcam via USB

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If it's already a verb, confusion should come from people using "Zoom" as a noun, the use of it as a verb is the expected situation not the confusing situation. Either way, citation needed - who has been confused?

"zoom" is a verb (also sometimes a noun), "Zoom" (the company/product) is a noun. I agree that "Zoom" as a noun is already confusing as capitalization isn't a very reliable way to differentiate words, but "Zoom" (the noun) being used as a verb that is completely different from "zoom" (the verb) is a whole other level of confusion on top of that. For citations, see your sibling comments. And besides, confusion clearly…

"zoom" the noun as in "zoom level/factor", not the company

Re: V002 Camera Live – Zoom with Your DSLR as a Webcam via USB

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Despite that list, it actually works against much older devices. I've ran it with a T2i, for example, which is like three generations older than they officially support.

Thanks -- I've been really bummed that they left 6D Mk. 1 owners out in the cold on this one. Does anyone know of a similar linux app that works over USB rather than HDMI?

I've been using gphoto2 and ffmpeg on linux to use my 6D MkII as a webcam. I did test it with my old old rebel XSI and it did work as well

here is the command

  sudo modprobe v4l2loopback exclusive_caps=1 max_buffers=2
  gphoto2 --stdout --capture-movie | ffmpeg -i - -vcodec rawvideo -pix_fmt yuv420p -an -threads 0 -r 24 -f v4l2 /dev/video2
I did wrap in a shell script to test if the module is already loaded.

Re: V002 Camera Live – Zoom with Your DSLR as a Webcam via USB

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Thanks -- I've been really bummed that they left 6D Mk. 1 owners out in the cold on this one. Does anyone know of a similar linux app that works over USB rather than HDMI?

I've been using gphoto2 and ffmpeg on linux to use my 6D MkII as a webcam. I did test it with my old old rebel XSI and it did work as well here is the command sudo modprobe v4l2loopback exclusive_caps=1 max_buffers=2 gphoto2 --stdout --capture-movie | ffmpeg -i - -vcodec rawvideo -pix_fmt yuv420p -an -threads 0 -r 24 -f v4l2 /dev/video2 I did wrap in a shell script to test if the module is already loaded.

Awesome -- I'll have to give it a try :)!

Re: V002 Camera Live – Zoom with Your DSLR as a Webcam via USB

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Old wives tale. Even the stackoverflow answers say as much. Most of the thermal ramping occurs in the first five minutes and then stabilizes after cache is exhausted. As all these dslr’s allow you to record 29m50s videos back to back all day long it’s also indicative that it’s not a big enough issue in returns to warrant addressing in their firmware. As you’re not writing to the SD card, hdmi passthrough should yield…

At the end of the day, it's just a calculated risk and this is one opinion on one side. My DSLR was quite expensive and I love using it for photography, so if there is any risk of damaging the sensor I will not be taking it. YMMV.

But of a old thread, but all Nikon's that can take video have thermal sensors and cut off when reaching "too hot". There have been people note in hot locations like Australia that they cannot record for 10 minutes before the camera shut off. So Nikon's at least are "safe to use".

I have often left my D750 running for 8+ by mistake.. it's happy as.

Re: V002 Camera Live – Zoom with Your DSLR as a Webcam via USB

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Thanks -- I've been really bummed that they left 6D Mk. 1 owners out in the cold on this one. Does anyone know of a similar linux app that works over USB rather than HDMI?

I've been using gphoto2 and ffmpeg on linux to use my 6D MkII as a webcam. I did test it with my old old rebel XSI and it did work as well here is the command sudo modprobe v4l2loopback exclusive_caps=1 max_buffers=2 gphoto2 --stdout --capture-movie | ffmpeg -i - -vcodec rawvideo -pix_fmt yuv420p -an -threads 0 -r 24 -f v4l2 /dev/video2 I did wrap in a shell script to test if the module is already loaded.

Works on the 6D. Thank you!

I'm only getting ~4 fps, with substantial latency. Is that your experience?

Image quality on the first lens I had at hand (40mm f/2.8) blows my Logitech 920 away. Field of view on the 920 is equivalent to a ~26mm on full-frame.

Super excited to see if my slightly-broken EOS M will do the trick, too.

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