Accessing Canon EDSDK Library from Processing.

arduinian

Accessing Canon EDSDK Library from Processing.

in Library and Tool Development • 2 years ago

I have downloaded and been reading Canon EDSDK for the past few days. It's a development kit containing functions for remote controlling the DSLR cameras. As per the title suggests and with my limited knowledge about processing, I would like to know if there's a way to access the said library from Processing? Inside the SDK, there are libraries (EDSDK.lib) and some header files (EDSDK.h, EDSDKErrors.h and EDSDKTypes.h).

If you have some reference about other way of accessing DSLR Camera (mine's is a Canon 500D), please point me to those reference too. Thank you.

Replies(5)

PhiLho

Re: Accessing Canon EDSDK Library from Processing.

2 years ago

It appears these are native libraries, probably for Windows, no? Perhaps written in C or C++. Is there any DLL?
Using such library in Java isn't trivial, you have to use JNI or the more modern JNA to do so. Plenty of material on the topic on the Net.
Personally, I have no experience in the field...
A library like JPen does this kind of stuff, it might be studied to see how it is done.