Hi all,
I’m working on setting up a film scanning setup using my girlfriend’s Fuji X-T5 and Darktable on my M1 Macbook Pro. I am hoping to use tethering mode to see the camera’s display on a larger/better screen for focusing, and avoid disturbing my DIY copy stand in the process. Tethering does work (I can change settings, take photos, see the preview), but it’s relatively low-quality and low framerate. I don’t have the paid Lightroom plugin necessary for the “FUJIFILM TETHER APP” continuous liveview, but I can see it temporarily by clicking the “focus” checkbox, or see it via the mobile app (PTP/IP via camera AP WiFi, I assume). In both these tethering setups, the livestream is excellent and virtually indistinguishable from viewing the image right on the camera screen.
To test further, I installed gphoto2 (v2.5.28) and libgphoto2 (2.5.31, the latest stable release) via Homebrew. Here’s the available options for liveviewsize:
> gphoto2 --get-config liveviewsize
Label: Live View Size
Readonly: 0
Type: RADIO
Current: VGA
Choice: 0 XGA
Choice: 1 VGA
Choice: 2 QVGA
END
I suppose it’s possible that Darktable is using the default liveviewsize and giving me a VGA (640x480) output instead of XGA (1024x768), but that doesn’t explain the framerate. I think I might be running into a libgphoto2 limitation, but I don’t have a Linux computer handy right now to test with Entangle. Does anyone else have experience using the X-T5 with Darktable tethering and can offer their experiences?
FYI, I’m connected using a high quality USB3.2 cable at 10Gbps, Darktable 4.8.1, and the latest Fuji X-T5 body firmware.
Thanks!