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I did this but a kind of showstopper was the fully opened aperture in liveview mode that lead to a very shallow depth of field. With my 30mm lens we are talking about centimeters (inches). I never figured a way around this.
I wish v4l2loopback was included in the kernel. I've wasted far too much time messing about with DKMS in the past that I now avoid any out-of-tree modules if I can avoid it. And with Secure Boot they become untenable. To be fair there is an issue tracking progress - https://github.com/umlaeute/v4l2loopback/issues/268 - but it's had no updates in 18 months.
I did this but a kind of showstopper was the fully opened aperture in liveview mode that lead to a very shallow depth of field. With my 30mm lens we are talking about centimeters (inches). I never figured a way around this.
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> Install software once, then forget about it. Are you new to Linux? As it appears to be necessary: \s, it was a lighthearted statement about how software is almost never "forget about it" and breaks on updates in unexpected ways.
Light hearted statements on HN is like walking through a minefield. I learned the same way as you. I can sympathize.
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But... it's just downvotes! I'm sending a polite signal, losing a bit of a digital karma score shouldn't be painful :) Please downvote me any time I comment something you think shouldn't be commented on HN!
(I just pasted the bit most relevent from the guidelines, but anyone who's not seen them should have a read of the whole lot - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html )
I'm curious if this is any more consistent than the webcam software that Canon provided for Windows and Mac. I tried the Mac implementation briefly, but found it to be _extremely_ glitchy (even with hard-wired power).
I had a similar experience as well - though I had to constantly swap batteries… How did you hardwire power?
Nice post, but that's way too much work to be worth it. You really want your camera and mic setup to just work rather than having to tell someone to wait 10 minutes to call because you need to reload your kernel module.
What work? That seems very comparable to any moderately nice webcam: Install software once, then forget about it. The "setup" for something like skype is then just selecting the cam from a drop down menu. An argument I could see is having to get out the camera, put it onto a tripod, connecting power, ... etc.. Though that is only an issue if you cannot just leave everything set up.
This seems like it should work very well. But... it's hard to imagine there not being some issues.
If nothing else, it will be an issue if you need to quickly do a clean reinstall, every customized thing is an extra few minutes of work, wheras a hack-less plug and play system is almost trivial to remake from scratch.
This could be amazing for a specialized application like a photo booth, but I'm not so sure about just regular desktop use.
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I had a similar experience as well - though I had to constantly swap batteries… How did you hardwire power?
I actually came across an Eos “webcam kit” at Walmart in-store that came with a USB cable and the AC adapter. Pricey at ~$90, but they did sell it like that.