burst mode with manual trigger?

[waspinator]

Hi,

When using my camera (Canon 60D) manually, I can take multiple pictures by depressing the shutter button every 0.3 - 0.5 seconds, and there is no delay in taking pictures. This isn't the same as just holding down the shutter though and getting the maximum frame rate possible, as I can wait a little longer before taking the next shot if I want to. Now I want to write a script running on my computer to do this for me, but also have it run some other code (language doesn't matter too much. ex. BASH, C, python, lua, ...) between shots.

So for example I would like to script something like this:

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takepic();               # there should be no delay (<10ms) between taking the picture and the echo
#or maybe this?
click(SHOOT_FULL);
echo just took picture 1!
sleep(0.2);            # this should take ~200ms

takepic();              # there should be no delay (<10ms) between taking the picture and the echo
#or maybe this?
click(SHOOT_FULL);
echo just took picture 2!
sleep(0.2);            # this should take ~200ms

takepic();              # there should be no delay (<10ms) between taking the picture and the echo
#or maybe this?
click(SHOOT_FULL);
echo just took picture 3!

downloadpics();    # is there a way to download pictures off of the camera to a computer after taking them?


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is there any way I can do this with ML or any other tool?