mark_anderson_us wrote:Hi Guys
I'll be trying this, sometime this week with my netbook; however, forgive my ignorance, but I think I'm missing something. If I don't want to use focus blending, besides saving directly to the computer, what's the benefit compared to just using papywizard with the Merlin head. (I know the tethering is simpler too.)
It seems to me the big problem is that no solution that exists today knows when the camera has finished the exposure and is ready to take the next shot. This means you have to try and figure out the longest exposure you're likely to have during the entire seqeunce (a pain at dusk) and then enter that as the time between shots with a safe error margin. So if I'm bracketing +1, 0, -1 and my -1 exposure is 3 secs, my total exposure should time should be 5.25 secs (assuming no delay for writing to disk, as most modern cameras can buffer 7-9 frames).
For this example, I would probably enter about 10 secs as my time per shot (huge error margin, but when shooting several hundred frames, missing the last one or two is a killer). This would be wasting at least 4 secs per shot, so if I'm shooting 400 images that's 1600 secs and a lot of light change ast dusk/dawn.
What would it take for Papywizard to be able to recognize that the camera is no longer busy and them move immediately instead of waiting for a pre-determined interval?
Is this a limitiation of papywizard or the plug-in controlling the camera? Canon and BreezeSys both have SDK's so if someone could write a plug-in that communicates directly with one of these products would it solve the problem. (If it will, I may consider having a go at developing it.)
Solaris wrote:Don't know if anybody is interested, but I found the solution for the problem. In my case, it came from the use of the french version of EOSUtility : EOSBracket.exe was not able to recognize french string.
To correct the problem :
1) Open EOSBracket.ahk script with Notepad++
2) At lines 427 and 436 (on a total of 491) replace "Main Window" with "Fenêtre Principale"
3) Save and close script
4)Compile script to obtain run-time version (EOSBracket.exe)
fma38 wrote:Papywizard Bulb feature only keep the trigger on during the exposure time; this is the B mode. It seems that you need the T mode, with one trigger at the begining, and one trigger at the end.
Skippysky wrote:How do I set up for exposures of , for example, 60 seconds, such that I get one 60sec frame at each position
in the mosaic?
Any advice greatly appreciated,
Andrew Cool
www.skippysky.com.au
ozbigben wrote:Two possible solutions?
Hi Ben,
>Record an autohotkey script with two shutter releases and then edit the wait in between to your desired shutter speed or..
>DSLR Remote (if it supports your model) use the commandline utility via a batch file with a sleep command in between two releases (sleep is not a standard dos >command but is available in a resource kit)
Skippysky wrote:Is the same general method available using the free EOS Utility that comes with Canon cameras rather than forking out $175 for DSLR Remote?
Thanks,
Andrew
Skippysky wrote:Hi Ben,
Is the same general method available using the free EOS Utility that comes with Canon cameras rather than forking out $175 for DSLR Remote?
Thanks,
Andrew
WinWait, DSLR Remote Pro ,
IfWinNotActive, DSLR Remote Pro , , WinActivate, DSLR Remote Pro ,
WinWaitActive, DSLR Remote Pro ,
Sleep, 100
Send, {F8}
Sleep, 60000
Send, {F8}
Exit
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