G'day all,
I'm looking to get my portable setup back up and running. It hasn't been running well since I bought my new laptop with Vista (6 months ago now!) because DSLRFocus doesn't run.
I'm on a tight budget (saving for a wedding!) so am after the best bang for buck to replace DSLRFocus.
I'm aware of
Nebulosity,
Images Plus, and
MiximDSLR.
The prices vary quite wildly and for the price of $60 Nebulosity is hard to go past.
Are there any other alternatives I should be looking at?
What exactly I want: Control of my Canon 350D from the laptop to enable easy focusing and image capture. My canon can connect via USB or RS232 (I have both cables which were compatible with DSLRFocus). Focus is manual on my portable setup, me using an orion acufocus, so no need for integrated focuser control from the software.
Any image processing capabilities provided by the software are an added bonus but definitely not required.
In theory I guide using a Q-Guider (in theory because I rarely get the whole setup running well enough to guide). So I guess there's a chance some of the options can do the autoguiding too, like with CCDSoft and SBIG cameras how it's all integrated in the one app. But I'm not sure about that and it's not required ad CCDSoft can continue to do the guiding using the Q-Guider for me.
Thanks,
Roger.