My recent research:

- Canon has a REST API, and the most affordable API supporting cameras.

- Fujifilm has an API, but not REST based, but it goes all the way back to the X-T3. Unfortunately, using it voids your warranty if there is a warranty.

- Sony has an API as well but mostly newer cameras.

- Blackmagic (video cameras) has a REST API, but their most affordable API-supporting cameras are meant for studio use, which isn't ideal for general use.

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beligum 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I can't speak for other brands, but I started this project by digging into the LCD menu of my camera, discovering "auth", "user", "pass" and wanted to know what protocol they used to authenticate remote logins. That's when I discovered the camera just uses ssh-style auth. As a part time sysadmin, it gave me the idea to try to "log into" the camera and here we are.

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varenc 6 hours ago | parent [-]

This doesn't actually use ssh at all right? By ssh-style auth you just mean a username and password? Seems to work great for the intended use case regardless !

	▲	beligum 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I'm guessing, but AFAIK, the camera runs some sort of sshd demon you log into, so I wouldn't be surprised it really does use ssh under the hood.

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OptionOfT 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> - Fujifilm has an API, but not REST based, but it goes all the way back to the X-T3. Unfortunately, using it voids your warranty if there is a warranty.

The Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act would like a word.

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dtgriscom 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I read the first item as:

> ... and (the most affordable API) supporting cameras

when it was (probably?) meant as:

> ... and the most affordable (API supporting cameras)

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Spastche 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

any info about Nikon?

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jiggawatts 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Nikon hasn't yet figured out how WiFi works, let alone a REST API!

They're firmly stuck in the early 1990s in terms of system software.

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danhau 4 hours ago | parent [-]

It seems most of the newer cameras (Z6 iii, Z5 ii, Z50 ii) and the Z9 support „Wi-Fi STA“ mode, as Nikon calls it. All other models apparently only do „AP“ mode, where the camera turns into an access point - super annoying.

Curiously the Z8 (which is basically a Z9) and the Zf (which is basically a Z6 iii) don’t support STA.

	▲	jiggawatts 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		AP mode ought to be faster and more reliable because the camera sends the signal directly to the receiving device instead of an external AP rebroadcasting it and halving the available bandwidth. The problem is with the software. It disconnects and sends data incredibly slowly, orders of magnitude slower than what the hardware is capable of.

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speed_spread 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

My Pentax KS-2 (2015) has a REST API.

https://sourceforge.net/p/pentaxks2wifiremote/wiki/K-S2%20We...