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Originally Posted by Octane
Can you explain what you mean by using DSLR Shutter in conjunction with the Canon EOS Utility software?
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Sure.. It's something I stumbled upon when testing DSLR Shutter for my setup. I have found that if I do the following procedure it works quite nicely..
1) connect DBUSB connection for long exposure shutter control of the camera
2) connect camera to computer & turn on
3) click on the auto-load canon page to activate remote shooting
4) leave the remote shooting window open, on one side of my screen
5) there might have been a setting somewhere in that remote shooting window to monitor the download location which I turned on, unsure, I don't have it infront of me right now.
6) I test the remote connection by using the shutter button on the canon remote connection utility and making sure it downloads an image and opens up my canon default viewer (Digital Photo Professional in my case).
7) open DSLR Shutter and start taking photo's (having configured it for DBUSB)
... then, from then on I use the canon remote control utility to adjust ISO and a few other things (aperture - when using canon lens, RAW etc), and I use DSLR Shutter to take the exposures.
When DSLR Shutter takes an exposure, seemingly because the canon remote control utility is monitoring the situation, the exposure is downloaded and immediately shown in Digital Photo Professional.
It seems that having the two working together results in the nice "quirk" that the images (of even long exposures) are downloaded immediately and the default viewer refreshed to show it.
Works really neat I find, and so simplistic and nice.
Both utilities are so small on the screen and their user interfaces so functional that I can make my working area of the desktop very functional (makes for less fuss out in the field).
This works great for series of exposures, not so useful for focus. For focusing, I do that first (before the above) and use Nebulosity 2.
I don't use Nebulosity 2 for capture very much, because I find working with RGB FITS more trouble than it's worth with the canon files, I prefer working with RAW files.
Roger.