Wanted Canon capture program

[Fay]

Does anyone use a capture program for Canon, must work with GPUSB Shoestring.
I give up with DSLR Focus.

Fay

[Tony G]

Fay,

I was speaking to John P the other week, as I was having trouble with my dlsrfocus and John spoke to a few people onanother forum, but there is software out there but you'll have to pay again, .
Here is a link to some software that looks pretty good, if this is what you are after.

http://www.breezesys.com/DSLRRemotePro/index.htm

Good Luck.

Tony G

[MarkS]

Fay,

What does DSLRFocus actually do?  What I mean is this - what functions does its replacement need to perform?

Mark

[mickw]

You can download EOS capture from here
http://software.canon-europe.com/products/0010192.asp

Not sure if it's what you want though, I don't think it has the focusing thingy that comes in DSLR Focus

[Fay]

DSLR Focus will work with the serial cable to download raw images also it will work with my GPUSB Shoestring adaptor, a lot of the programs only work with say, LXUSB or DSUSB.

It is an easy program to use, you have an easy focus screen, where you touch the space bar & it immediately downloads the focus screen, so you keep pressing it until the image is in focus. It has a larger preview screen of the image you have taken & you control the camera settings via the program.

I have just downloaded a version of DSLR Focus from my desktop, which, at this moment seems to be working. But something always happens to screw it up. I have just been testing Maxim. It works, but I don't like it as much, I was looking at DSLR Shutter by Stark labs, who do PHD Guiding, but it only works with the DSUSB, I have tested that today & it does not work with my GPUSB.

Thanks Tony I have had a look at that program you suggested, & put it on the list.

A lot of the programs are expensive as they have the processing features etc, but I only want it to capture.

[Fay]

Forgot to say that, DSLR Focus, website is no longer available, also the Yahoo group has been deleted as well, as Chris Ventor is no longer doing it.
Any downloads now, would be from people who already have it.

[Ian]

that's unusual. I wonder if he's got a commercial project that's about to be released...

[Fay]

Ian,  all messages have now been deleted, on the Yahoo group site, because he was not going to develop the program any further. I went to the download page, but what I downloaded was empty.

[JohnP]

Mark,

DSLR Focus is a focus & acquisition piece of software - it enabes you to download quickly low resolution jpeg images to laptop you then  select a star & adjust focus hit spacebar & it updates image & gives you loads of information about width, height brightness of star etc. etc. You keep doing this until perfectly focused. Once focused you can then switch to LX mode & set up a sequence of long exposures say 10 exposures at 5mins each with 15 secs in between press a button & of it goes. You can save in raw format either to laptop or direct to camera.

I think it is a bit buggy but seems to work reasonably well for me. At the time I think it was the only s/w that supported these functions - it wasn't free you had to buy it.. I think that there are other programs around now - although they tend to do a lot more than just focus/ capture & so can be a bit expensive...

John

[Rick]

Ian,  all messages have now been deleted, on the Yahoo group site, because he was not going to develop the program any further.

Is this link related: http://www.dslrfocus.com/

[Fay]

Yes, Rick but when you download the folder is empty now.

John, you are more on Mark's technical level than me

[mickw]

Fay,
I don't know if I got lucky, but I've downloaded v3.3 and it's all there.
I tried installing it but as I don't have a "key" it won't work 
If you want it, I'll either bring it to the observing evening or email it to you.

[Fay]

Well, strange, Mick. I did have a duplicate on my desktop. I will let you know. Thanks

[Fay]

Well Mick , that is weird. I wanted to go into Yahoo to see if my problem was in there. For the last few days the site has been blank. I have just gone in & it is there again. I also have a mail with key in it with the download site, when I tried to re download in the last few days, I downloaded a blank folder. I have done it today & it is there, but no activity on the site

[mickw]

And you started drinking when ?