Shutter willnot fire in DSLR Focus or Maxim

[Fay]

Ok having aged 20 years I am still plodding on with this new drive!!!!!!!!!

Now I hope, last big hurdle is that the Canon  shutter will not fire in DSLR Focus. It had a couple of times during the last couple of days but not now. The focus moves but not shutter movement in focus mode or bulb. Checked port is the same in prog as in Device manager, 50 times.

I just tried to connect it in Maxim & message came up "hardware failure posted by camera driver" I am thinking cable here. Please, has anyone got any advice, so I can start to relax

[JohnP]

Fay - just remember DSLR Focus has always been a 'dodgy' prog & even in the past you have had issues so it is not necessarily something wrong with what you have done.... maybe you should try a different LX prog..

John

[Fay]

well being that Maxim threw up a problem with it, I am wondering about the cables. DSLR focus had been working fine for a very long time on old drive. I did take that version off & put on new drive, but makes no difference.

MICK , have a couple of beers & come up with an answer, perhaps a bit of cable testing!

[Fay]

Does anyone know if that blue cable should be attached to anything? Serial to camera.

[Mac]

yup

[Fay]

Oh, really, wonder where?  I am getting excited

[mickw]

MICK , have a couple of beers & come up with an answer

OK, Done - might need more though 

The LX adapter or whatever is presumably a 9 pin D plug thing into a USB adapter.
The program that is controlling the camera via the "adapter" needs to be told what the port is that the adapter is using - It is probably NOT a USB port.
You could try the programs settings and guess what it is (like I did and got lucky) or you could take a look at the Windows, System, Device Manager, Hardware etc.

I am not clever enough or pissed enough to offer any further assistance 

[Fay]

Mick, thru the haze  did you notice my picture above?

[mickw]

Yep

[mickw]

Sorry about that - Mac started it 

Really need to see the other side of the plug where the wires are connected.

But I'm guessing that the broken wire is the shutter release.
I'm assuming that you have 3 connections, one of which has a blob of solder but no wire (there's a clue in there    )

[Fay]

can't see a blob, i was looking for a clue. have sent a mail to astronomiser, where i got it from.

[mickw]

Post a picture of the other side of the plug where the wires connect

[Fay]

[mickw]

It looks like the red wire goes straight down the middle.
The bare wire (that the red wire is twisted round just goes to the bit that looks like claws that the whole wire sort of fits through.
Roughly in line with where the red wire connects, there seems to be a blob of solder.
That is where the blue wire lives 

Possibly

[The Thing]

I would say Mick was probably right. We really need to see inside the other end to see what the blue wire is connected to.