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Re:V002 Camera Live – Zoom with Your DSLR as a Webcam via USB by s09dfhks on Friday June 05, 2020 @01:49PM (#23431519)
It looks like they only support newer DSLRs
Re:V002 Camera Live – Zoom with Your DSLR as a Webcam via USB by jeffmcjunkin on Friday June 05, 2020 @02:06PM (#23431733)
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.
Re:V002 Camera Live – Zoom with Your DSLR as a Webcam via USB by ISL on Friday June 05, 2020 @02:25PM (#23431992)
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?

Re:V002 Camera Live – Zoom with Your DSLR as a Webcam via USB by idratherbike on Monday June 08, 2020 @12:22AM (#23453542)
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 by ISL on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @11:42PM (#23473672)
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.

Re:V002 Camera Live – Zoom with Your DSLR as a Webcam via USB by ISL on Monday June 08, 2020 @03:57PM (#23460120)
Awesome -- I'll have to give it a try :)!
Re:V002 Camera Live – Zoom with Your DSLR as a Webcam via USB by kennethko on Friday June 05, 2020 @04:47PM (#23433770)
I've been using a 6D mk.1 with the Windows version of the Canon Webcam Utility Beta for a couple weeks now. No issues with running it, so far.
Re:V002 Camera Live – Zoom with Your DSLR as a Webcam via USB by reid on Friday June 05, 2020 @03:33PM (#23432864)
6D Mk 1 works great with Canon Webcam Utility Beta on macOS! I'm using it now.
Re:V002 Camera Live – Zoom with Your DSLR as a Webcam via USB by luckydata on Friday June 05, 2020 @02:12PM (#23431817)
How do you download the app? They require a serial number.
Re:V002 Camera Live – Zoom with Your DSLR as a Webcam via USB by timdorr on Friday June 05, 2020 @02:36PM (#23432148)
Re:V002 Camera Live – Zoom with Your DSLR as a Webcam via USB by wiseleo on Friday June 05, 2020 @04:33PM (#23433632)
Copy/paste the link to avoid the error after clicking.
Re:V002 Camera Live – Zoom with Your DSLR as a Webcam via USB by vr46 on Friday June 05, 2020 @04:50PM (#23433801)
Aha, nice tip. I have a 1DX I was hoping to try it out on, has stacks of ports but I didn’t understand why it was too old. I’ll give it a shot.
Re:V002 Camera Live – Zoom with Your DSLR as a Webcam via USB by post_break on Friday June 05, 2020 @02:17PM (#23431888)
That’s great because I have a T2i with magic lantern. Will have to give it a try.