fujiplay - a programm to control a Fuji digital camera

fujiplay [options] command [arguments]

This manual page documents briefly the fujiplay command. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

fujiplay is a program that can control Fuji digital cameras such as the MX-500 or the MX-700. It is supposed to work with most cameras, but only tested with a MX-700. You can download, upload and delete photos from the camera. In advance you are able to shoot pictures, modify the setting (e.g. for the flash) and get the preview picture.

The compatible options are listed below.

-h

Show summary of options.

-v

Show version of program.

-B NUMBER

Set baudrate (115200, 57600, 38400, 19200, 9600 or 0)

-D DEVICE

Select another device file (default is /dev/fujifilm)

-L

List command set

-7

DS-7 compatibility mode (experimental)

-d

Delete pictures after successful download

-f

Force (overwrite existing files)

-p

Assume picture numbers instead of frame numbers

The following commands are supported by fujiplay.

PICTURES

Downloads pictures given as command. It can be e.g.

- all (download all pictures)

- last (download last picture)

- 4 (download only the 4th picture)

- 2-10 (downloads pictures between 2 and 10)

delete FILES...

Erases pictures given by the filename from the SmartMedia card. E.g. the filenames can be DSC00105.JPG.

upload FILES...

Uploads files on the SmartMedia card. The filenames are changed if necessary, so that they can be interpreted by the camera.

shoot

Takes a photo on your Fuji camera. The photo is stored as normally on the SmartMedia card.

setflash MODE

Sets the mode of the build-in flash. It can have the following values: 0=Off, 1=On, 2=Strobe and 3=Auto.

charge NUMBER

Recharges the build-in flash. The author of fujiplay could not figure out yet which values NUMBER can be. From this experiments he thinks that 0 cannot be wrong.

setdate [gmt|local|YYYYMMDDHHMMSS]

This command can be followed by "gmt" (universal time), "local" (local time), or a 14-character string formatted as YYYYMMDDHHMMSS. Can be useful to test Y2K compliance. The author's MX-700 for instance accepts dates between 1980/01/01 and 2043/12/31.

setid STRING

The "camera ID" is a string stored into the camera nonvolatile memory. It's at most ten characters long (if longer, it'll be truncated; if shorter, it'll be padded with spaces). This string is used to fill the "Copyright" tag (that's tag 0x8298) in the Exif header. You can put your name if it's short enough. Example:

preview

The command "fujiplay preview" will cause the camera to take a small picture of the current scene. Since it's very small (80x60 pixels) it can be quickly transferred. The preview is sent to standard output, in some special format; you can pipe it into "yycc2ppm" to convert it into the more common raw PPM format.

yycc2ppm(1)

This manual page was written by Roland Bauerschmidt <roland@copyleft.de>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

It is partly based on the README file and the output of 'fujiplay -h' included in the sources from Thierry Bousch <bousch@topo.math.u-psud.fr> who is the author of fujiplay and yycc2ppm.