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+#!/usr/bin/env ruby
+
+# A function to capture a picture with gphoto2, retrying 3-times in
+# case of errors.
+def capture_picture
+  3.times do
+    break if `gphoto2 --capture-image` == 0
+    puts "Retrying gphoto2 capture..."
+  end
+end
+
+
+capture_picture