Comments on: Canon DSLR serial control http://hackaday.com/2006/09/19/canon-dslr-serial-control/ Fresh hacks every day Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:08:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Costas http://hackaday.com/2006/09/19/canon-dslr-serial-control/comment-page-1/#comment-22100 Sun, 04 Nov 2007 16:10:13 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2006/09/19/canon-dslr-serial-control/#comment-22100 I did the same but i build also and
a program for long exposures
and counter in your screen.My programm
cooperates with the Canon’s one ,so now
you can have and Long exposures (more than
30 sec) and counter into your computer
screen.
(Canon screen consumed my battery easy)
Also you have 14 com ports available so you
can work your Canon in any Laptop!

more informations to my site:

http://freewebs.com/dslrcontrollercostas/

]]> By: Josh Farwell http://hackaday.com/2006/09/19/canon-dslr-serial-control/comment-page-1/#comment-22099 Wed, 20 Sep 2006 08:56:00 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2006/09/19/canon-dslr-serial-control/#comment-22099 This is a pretty good workaround. However… exposures longer than 8 or 10 seconds (depending on which camera you own and the quality of the image sensor) gets excessively noisy with a DSLR. Most pros reccomend against using digital cameras for exposures longer than 8 seconds, much less 30+.

If you wanna expose for 60 seconds with your serial port, go buy a canon film body. Rebels are like $50 on ebay, and i picked up an ElanII for about $100 last month, and they are great cameras. This hack will still work on canon film cameras.

Theres some things that digital isn’t better at!

….yet.

]]> By: Paul http://hackaday.com/2006/09/19/canon-dslr-serial-control/comment-page-1/#comment-22098 Wed, 20 Sep 2006 06:02:03 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2006/09/19/canon-dslr-serial-control/#comment-22098 Why the hell would they impose an arbitrary limit like 30 second exposure time? That is (almost) like selling a printer that won’t print between 5pm and 6pm by design.

]]> By: xjasonx http://hackaday.com/2006/09/19/canon-dslr-serial-control/comment-page-1/#comment-22097 Wed, 20 Sep 2006 04:56:01 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2006/09/19/canon-dslr-serial-control/#comment-22097 nice mod, im still waiting for a decent radio slave control (reciever and transmitter) to control external flashes without cables.. the ‘real’ deal radio slaves are like $150 but ive heard you can make them out of RC cars and cordless phones

]]> By: blip http://hackaday.com/2006/09/19/canon-dslr-serial-control/comment-page-1/#comment-22096 Wed, 20 Sep 2006 01:04:21 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2006/09/19/canon-dslr-serial-control/#comment-22096 #7 first on topic comment

Pretty snazzy. The non-opt isolated one seems a little fool hardy but whatever. It seems to me, though, that it would be a lot better just to use a pic with some kind of timer/display but I suppose that since in their app you have the computer there anyway, it isn’t worth the extra effort. Besides that the computer can probably do neat stuff like shot cueing etc.

Anyway, pretty cool none-the-less. If anyone is interested in something similar for the D70 scroll to the bottom of this page… Haven’t seen a DIY version though: http://www.hapg.org/astrocables.htm

]]> By: Erik http://hackaday.com/2006/09/19/canon-dslr-serial-control/comment-page-1/#comment-22095 Wed, 20 Sep 2006 00:11:53 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2006/09/19/canon-dslr-serial-control/#comment-22095 its works for me

]]> By: off topic http://hackaday.com/2006/09/19/canon-dslr-serial-control/comment-page-1/#comment-22094 Wed, 20 Sep 2006 00:08:52 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2006/09/19/canon-dslr-serial-control/#comment-22094 Is it just me or is the RSS feed down? didn’t work yesterday or today and I checked the page today and all this new stuff was here. I think my work might be filtering but Im not sure.

]]> By: Erik http://hackaday.com/2006/09/19/canon-dslr-serial-control/comment-page-1/#comment-22093 Wed, 20 Sep 2006 00:00:38 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2006/09/19/canon-dslr-serial-control/#comment-22093 phil Said:

2. firts comment woot!!!!

lol, second. Nice try.

Nice hack

]]> By: Ryan Carter http://hackaday.com/2006/09/19/canon-dslr-serial-control/comment-page-1/#comment-22092 Tue, 19 Sep 2006 17:25:09 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2006/09/19/canon-dslr-serial-control/#comment-22092 I’m digging hack-a-day on the new CMS. Especially the hacked blogsmith logo. Looks great.

]]> By: Phil http://hackaday.com/2006/09/19/canon-dslr-serial-control/comment-page-1/#comment-22091 Tue, 19 Sep 2006 16:18:18 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2006/09/19/canon-dslr-serial-control/#comment-22091 firts comment woot!!!!

]]> By: rogue http://hackaday.com/2006/09/19/canon-dslr-serial-control/comment-page-1/#comment-22090 Tue, 19 Sep 2006 16:15:33 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2006/09/19/canon-dslr-serial-control/#comment-22090 i’ve seen it done before for no other reason than “first comment”, so here it is. first comment.

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