You'll definitely need a firewire powered hub - that powers the camera. Approx $85.
And because you don't have a firewire port, you'll need to get a PCMCIA card which gives you a firewire port. They're on ebay for like $20.
The USB2 external drive I referred to is an external hard drive. 60gig won't be enough (long term) for capture + processing + storage of all your astronomical goodies.
You can get a 300gig external USB HDD for around $200. I capture directly to my external drive.
The belkin one has 6 ports, 4 firewire and 2 USB2 (I think). You could probably get a cheaper one as Bird suggested. As long as it powers the camera, and transfers data to the PCMCIA card, that's all that matters.
Single Click the green “Start” button
Select “Control Panel”
Double Click “System”
Select the “Hardware” Tab
Click the “Device Manager” Button
This will open the “Device Manager” Window which provides a list of all the devices in your computer. If you have Firewire (IEEE1394) it should appear somewhere in the list.
Matt, if you have a firewire port then it will be located somewhere on your laptop. Look for a small 4-pin mini socket, maybe on the left side of the laptop (thats where mine is, a dell inspiron 8500). It might be marked "1394".
It looks kinda like a mini-usb port, but it's not quite the same shape.
Matt, if you have a firewire port then it will be located somewhere on your laptop. Look for a small 4-pin mini socket, maybe on the left side of the laptop (thats where mine is, a dell inspiron 8500). It might be marked "1394".
It looks kinda like a mini-usb port, but it's not quite the same shape.
Bird
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Yes. There's one of those at the side of my pooter.
I was looking for the firewire symbol and not the "1394"
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but you will need one of these;
