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The one suggestion I have is to try it on the Lion OS if you haven't already. So that really sucks if it doesn't support your D3100.

The key for me, I'm sorry to say, was using Sofortbild to get me around the annoying 'take picture' bugs. So, even though I has the same wish for a DYI photo booth with Automator connected to my DSLR (instead of the 640x480 camera of my MBP), between the bugs and the various limitations in Automator, I eventually started writing my own photo booth application. The Canon EOS Utility cannot be controlled by Automator.Image Capture crashes somewhat frequently and cannot be controlled by Automator.Take Picture needs to be 'primed' by pressing the shutter of the camera once.The control of delays and the 'synchronization' between tasks in Automator is also rather limited.In general, the printing options with the Automator workflow are limited.

Hence the trick of saving one of these tasks as an Application, and using Launch Application to take the photo indirectly. On both systems, adding more than one Take Picture task makes all the Take Picture tasks break with an error message.On Snow Leopard, the Take Picture task never worked for me.

The last step seems to wake up something somewhere, because from then on, MyTakePicture.app works whenever I launch it (without touching the camera anymore). Press the shutter button on the camera once. Launch the MyTakePicture.app once (nothing happens).ġ2. Make sure the camera is off and disconnected.ġ1. suggests below that upgrading to Lion may improve things somewhat).Ĩ. However, I still have not been able to get any Automator application to take a picture when run from Finder (n.p. UPDATE: There are certain conditions under which you can add a Take Picture action to a workflow (see n.p.'s workaround steps below). But this kind blew my mind so I had to share. Obviously I'm going to try to reproduce this more definitively and also try to take a picture with a workflow. I have since repeated this sequence, and it seems like the recording of the Photo Booth opening and snapshot does something unholy to Automator and then suddenly the Take a Picture action can be used. On a subsequent opening of this workflow, the action was disappeared, the workflow was blank, and I could no longer add the Take a Picture action to anything. I quickly created a workflow with a single Take a Picture action and saved it. Still no camera connected at that time, so the dropdown list was empty. What does this all have to do with the Take a Picture action? Well, all of a sudden on reopening Automator it started working and I could add it to any workflow.

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Suddenly all my Automator windows were disappeared, even though they were still listed under 'Window' menu in Automator, and on closing Automator I was asked to save changes to them. I didn't get as far as testing the image capture (no camera was plugged in) - instead I was playing around and recorded the launching of Photo Booth and snapping of a picture with the iSight. In order to do this I was prompted to turn on 'Enable access for assistive devices' in the Universal Access system setting. I tried the record button in Automator to try to take a picture in Image Capture and see if I could capture the action that way. I cant use the Loop function because I am trying to add folders and naming ID's to each individual file based upon the project. But once i add the same 'take picture' function or 'take video snapshot' function more than once - it freezes. I started the automator with 'Image Capture Plugin' instead of a workflow and was able to get the camera to take a picture and save it to a file. I was able to get this action to work - but it only worked once.

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I have been able to use the 'Take Video snapshot' function - but this defaults to the internal imac isight and not the external tethered D3000.Īny ideas on how to get the Automator to automatically take photos with a tethered D3000? Is this a function of the Nikon D3000 being insufficient or is there another trick in automator? Has anyone else been able to use the 'Take Picture' function in the workflow?

When i set up the new workflow and try and select take picture function under the 'Image Capture' application it wont allow me to put it in the workflow.

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I am trying to take a series of photos with an external camera (D3000 Nikon) using automator.

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