EDSDK4J

This is a Java wrapper around the EDSDK that gives you full access to your Canon SLR camera via the EDSDK on Windows*. The features include:

Taking and downloading pictures
Manually adjusting focus
Setting apperature, exposure, ISO
Accessing live view

(*) With a few changes it could also work on Mac OSX.

Applying for SDK access

Before you can use this library you need to obtain the EDSDK native library from Canon. You can do so via their developers program:

Once you were granted access - this may take a few days - download the latest version of their library and follow the usage instructions.

Architecture

Using the EDSDK from Java directly is possible using the edsdk.native package, but because of threading difficulties and the involved data types this can be a bit painful. In the edsdk.utils package you find a small layer built on top of the EDSDK that gives you more Java-like examples.

Most notably, all calls have synchroneous and async calls. The async variants give you a CanonTask and you can choose if you want to wait for the result or be notified when it's done.

CanonCamera slr = new CanonCamera(); 
slr.openSession();

// Use the blocking variant to get a result immediately. 
File file = slr.shoot()[0]; 
System.out.println( "File: " + file.getAbsolutePath() );

// Use async handlers to continue your code immediately 
slr.shootAsync().whenDone( f -> System.out.println( f ) ); 

// close session is always blocking.
// because commands are queued this won't be executed 
// until the above slr.shoot() finished it's work. 
slr.closeSession();

Getting started

	CanonCamera slr = new CanonCamera(); 
	slr.openSession();
	File file = slr.shoot()[0]; // (*)
	slr.closeSession();
	
	(*) If you have raw+jpeg enabled you'll have two 
	images in that array. Usually it's just one.

For more look at the examples in src/gettingstarted.

Notes

To regenerate the JNA wrapper classes:

set EDSDK_HOME=path-to-edsdk
ant generate-wrapper

Issues: