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Originally Posted by chuckywiz
I use digicamcontrol for my nikon. Is awesome free package. Also use intervalometer for over 30sec exposures
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Ben, many thanks..... I've got it (digicamcontrol) working on my lappy (beta ver). It was all over the place on my mainframe, crashing and some option boxes not displaying correctly.
Anyway, when using "astronomy tab (plan editor)" I can input a series of shots/iso etc but when I start the sequence it counts them down and comes up with "bulb mode not supported", and takes no images. Indeed need bulb mode for this and the camera cannot support bulb mode thru this USB, that I know of. The support matrix tells me this as well.
I'm guessing I need an external shutter as the USB is cable in use running this tethered software? I can see a box for "external shutter release" (with some empty settings as i have none connected or configured) and I'm guessing I need something like another USB port connected to a serial/TTL out to the camera MC-DC1 shutter remote port, something like
this or
this to send external shutter control signals?
The links given indicate that this is required, clunky I know but from what I could tell this is the only way to tether and run this camera given it's firmware/hardware constraints.
Any advice appreciated.