MATLAB: Am I unable to access certain camera-specific attributes for the DCAM compliant camera using the Image Acquisition Toolbox

Image Acquisition Toolbox

I access camera-specific properties for my DCAM compliant camera by using the commands:
vid=videoinput('dcam',1);
get(getselectedsource(vid))
However, this does not seem to be a complete list of the attributes that I can customize for my camera. The only way I can set the values for the this attribute is by setting a register in my DCAM compliant camera.

Best Answer

The Image Acquisition Toolbox supports connections to IEEE 1394 (FireWire) DCAM-compliant devices using the Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) DCAM driver. The CMU driver strictly adheres to version 1.31 of the DCAM specification.
The Image Acquisition toolbox does not support vendor specific DCAM drivers, which frequently offer extensions or modifications to the DCAM specification. Since these additional camera-attributes are not supported by version 1.31 of the DCAM specification, they cannot be accessed by the Image Acquisition Toolbox.
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