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Thanks Duncan - at the moment I'm limited to between 5 and 10 second subs without any drift alignment it seems. Frustrating to say the least. I eventually will get a reticular eyepiece and will learn drift alignment to get better subs, I know it's the best way of approaching this, I'm just trying to hack things "as is" for the moment! Thanks for the encouragement.
Humayun - I know newer Canons are better in noise etc, but my problems require a bit of background history to see where I'm coming from.
1. A very bad experience with Canon Australia re: 1D batteries and a 430ex flash unit and offshoe adaptor. Worst customer service I've encountered in 30 years of being a consumer.
2. I seem to have bought a "dud" 1D Mark IIn, at least in many ways. Far too many hot pixels for a 6 second exposure imho, firewire port died too. True, I bought it 2nd hand, but unit was only 9 months old when I bought it, one owner. I'd expect a 6k pro camera to be made better, and have better QA.
3. Canon refuse to provide 64 bit drivers for FireWire connectibility for the Mark II/n. I'm tempting to take legal action over this, as I believe that they are in breach of several areas of the Trade Practices Act 1974, or at least it's legally open to interpretation. Whilst the Act states that manufacturers are legally obliged to provide spare parts and support for a product for 5 years from date of cessation of the product being part of the current range, I believe that drivers, especially in todays modern products, should be included in this. With things like a camera, the driver is CRITICAL for the product to interface with the computer.
True, I can use a memory card reader, but each time I use that, I run the potential risk of either damaging the card, or the pins in the camera's card slot. As you can appreciate, using a firewire cable from camera to PC is far less risky from that perspective.
Canon simply is being lazy, and tighta$$es by not producing drivers. I'm not saying Nikon is any better in this respect btw. I don't believe in rewarding manufacturers for bad support.
There, I've said my bit.
Dave
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