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

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.

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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.

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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 :)!

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