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{{Short description|Software}}
{{lowercase|gPhoto}}
{{Confused|Google Photos}}
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| latest_release_version = 2.5.28
| latest_release_date = {{Start date and age|2022|1|3}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://gphoto.sourceforge.net/|title=gPhoto Home|access-date=11 July 2022}}</ref>
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| operating_system = [[Linux]], [[BSD]], [[Unix-like]]
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| genre = [[Digital photography]]
| license = [[GNU Lesser General Public License|GNU LGPL]]
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'''gPhoto''' is a set of [[Application software|software applications]]{{Fact|date=September 2013}} and [[Library (computing)|libraries]] for use in [[digital photography]]. gPhoto supports not just retrieving of images from camera devices, but also upload and remote controlled configuration and capture, depending on whether the camera supports those features.

Released under the [[GNU Lesser General Public License]], gPhoto is [[free software]].

==Support==
gPhoto supports more than 2500 cameras as of June 2019.<ref>[http://gphoto.sourceforge.net/proj/libgphoto2/support.php Projects :: libgphoto2 :: supported cameras]</ref> It is [[cross-platform]], running under [[Linux]], [[FreeBSD]], [[NetBSD]] and other [[Unix-like]] operating systems.

gPhoto has support for the [[Picture Transfer Protocol]] (PTP) and will also connect to devices that use the [[Media Transfer Protocol]] (MTP). Many cameras are not supported by gPhoto, but have support for the [[USB mass storage device class]], which is well-supported under Linux. gPhoto intentionally does not implement support for USB mass storage cameras, as this is already implemented in-kernel.

gPhoto supports camera tethering control, preview, viewfinder in PTP or camera specific protocols on numerous cameras.

==Applications==
gPhoto provides a library, '''libgphoto2''', to allow for other frontends to be written for it, and a [[command-line interface]]. gtkam is the official [[Graphical user interface|GUI]] client for gPhoto. Other clients are the [[KDE]] program [[digiKam]] and the [[GNOME]] program  [[Shotwell (software)|Shotwell]].  [[GVfs]] uses libgphoto2 to expose on-camera photos to GNOME applications via a virtual filesystem.

[[DigiKam]], gtkam and {{Interlanguage link multi|Entangle (software)|fr|3=Entangle}}<ref>[http://entangle-photo.org/ Entangle: Tethered Camera Control & Capture] official website</ref> support tethering capture and viewfinder for supported cameras.<ref>[http://gphoto.sourceforge.net/doc/remote/ gPhoto - doc - Remote controlling cameras] (last stable version) in gPhoto documentation</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
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* {{official website}}
* [http://gphoto.sourceforge.net/proj/libgphoto2/support.php List of supported cameras]

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