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Maxim and Canon - getting them to play
It's been a while since I had a play with OSC and a Canon EOS DSLR. But I've recently been messing about with a small rig I want to set aside for travelling and the camera I have on hand is an older EOS350D. Don't laugh - they're still a decent 8MP camera.
But I can't get Maxim to interface with it effectively.
I'm doing this on a Laptop running XP SP3. And I've loaded the drivers correctly. I know this because BackyardEOS and the Canon EOS Utility both control the camera just fine. But I like to use Maxim to control the scope and to do plate solving. So if i can, I'd like to use Maxim to guide and image as well.
But Maxim seems to be very uncomfortable with this camera. It will find the camera and connect to it if I set it up as a Canon EOS I but not as an EOS II. I always thought the 350D was a Digic II processor so my instinct has been telling me the camera ought to be recognised by maxim as an EOS II. But it isn't. And if I set it up as EOS I, the shutter release doesn't function.
So I'm puzzled and wondering if there are any IISers who can remember the 350D and have any suggestions.
Peter
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