Greetings Reinhold and All,
As I wrote earlier I got my Powershot A510, 3.2MP, connected with gphoto2. The command I use is simply
gphoto2 --set-config zoom=3 -I 600 --capture-image-and-download --force-overwrite --filename pwrwebcam4.jpg
This sets the zoom to 3, takes a shot every 600sec and replaces and stores it with the filename pwrwebcam4.jpg. This allows me to set this on WC, which sends it to my Simple Web at
www.magpie-hill.com.
I noticed I was getting fuzzy results with some image tests with WC. After many emails with Stu he figured out that this was because I was doing these tests with Preview, which was set to 180 dpi. WC expects 72 dpi (normal screen resolution) and this was causing an incompatibility. So he and I found that sending the original camera image is best. My camera images are now set at about 400KB and WC squeezes them down to about 80KB.
My long USB cable problem is solved with one of 10m from China. I need now to get a power source for my camera, as batteries do not last long. I have ordered one but wonder if it will stand up to 24h running. Reinhold, what are you using for your cameras? If anyone is interested I think that I and Reinhold can give you guidance as how to setup a cheap used camera for this webcam purpose.
Irving