What is tethered shooting?. Tethered shooting is method hook up your DSLR camera to your Laptop/PC and take pictures, you are shooting tethered. You can either trigger the camera from your Laptop/PC or directly from the DSLR camera itself and then view the image on your computer screen. Depending on the camera, you can control pretty much everything: aperture, shutter speed, focus mode, ISO, etc.

For ubuntu based distribution user you can do this using app engtangle. Entangle is an application which uses GTK and libgphoto2 to provide a graphical interface for tethered shooting DSLR cameras. it also allow control over camera shooting and configuration settings and ‘hands off’ shooting directly from PC/Laptop that installed ubuntu based distribution.

Entangle also can do:

Control of all camera settings from computer

Automatic download and display of photos as they are shot

Trigger the shutter from the computer

Live preview of scene before shooting

Install Entangle on Ubuntu based Distribution (Ubuntu 12.04/Ubuntu 12.10/Linux Mint)

To install entangle on Ubuntu 12.04/12.10, Linux Mint just add Personal Package Archieve in below, open terminal and run these commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dhor/myway sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install entangle

Entangle easy to use, just connect your DSLR camera in to PC/laptop , launch entangle from Dash menu by typing “entangle”, and shoot picture form your ubuntu PC/Laptop.