My wife called me at work this arvo and said the postman dropped off a card to say "pick up a parcel from the postoffice".
So I left work and got to the post office 5 minutes before they closed!
I picked up my DMK21AF04 and Belkin 6-port 6-pin powered hub that I ordered on Thursday last week! 2 parcels at once! Yay!
So, my laptop doesn't have a firewire port, but I ordered a Firewire PCMCIA card the other week, so I already had that.
Put that in the laptop, plug that into the hub. Plug the camera into the hub. The hub has 240v power. All looks good so far.
Windows doesn't recognise the device, so I install the IC Capture software and drivers, all good! All working so far.
I can capture at 15fps no problems, using the Y800 codec. The capture locks up when I try and use 30fps.
I'm not sure what the problem is yet. It could in part be my laptop - it's an old Dell Latitude D600 with 512M RAM and a 1.6Ghz processor. It might not be fast enough to capture at 30fps.
Will need to experiment with different codecs and other settings, and try it in the desktop computer (which has a faster CPU) to see what makes the difference.
In any case, 15fps is working fine, which will get me up and running for now.
Am able to load the avi's into registax by loading a fire-i driver (thanks rumples for the tip). But i'll be splitting into bmp's anyway so it'll be fine.
Too tired to go outside with it tonight - will hope for clear skies tomorrow and give it first light in mono mode - no colour filters yet. I do have the filter wheel already, so I can practise with the adapters, turning the wheel etc, and see how my scope reacts to the extra weight that the setup introduces, and bumping from turning the wheel.
Will post some photos tomorrow night.