Is anybody using APT with a 350d

[pel]

I've been looking to improve ease of focusing of my 350D for imaging DSO's. I had a look at BYE but that didn't work on Windows 7 64-bit or a Windows XP sp2 VM. I'd been told it wouldn't work on W7 64-bit but thought it would work on the XP VM, but it blue screened when taking snaps.

Has anybody used APT with a 350d. I primarily want to use it just to assist focusing as I already have a timer remote?

Thanks, Perry.

[Stephen]

I think your problem is probably more down to trying to pass a USB device through to a VM : particularly fraught and doesn't work well.

BYE works fine for me on XP SP2.

Can you try with a native XP machine? (Dual boot?)

[pel]

Hi Kheldar ,

Thanks, yes I had heard it worked ok natively on XP. I didn't want to go down the dual boot route as it is a lot more effort than trying APT. I will definitely use that option as the fall-back though as BYE looks good.

Thanks, Perry.

[pel]

(after a quick google) Setting up dual boot for W7/XP looks a lot easier than I remember Wnin98/NT being. I guess I'll go for that.

[pel]

Setting up amy laptop for Dual boot was fairly straight-forward, but took ages. Just got to try BYE again for focusing now.

Great W7/XP dual boot instructions -

Dual Boot Installation with Windows 7 and XP - Windows 7 Forums

[Yoddha]

I've been looking to improve ease of focusing of my 350D for imaging DSO's. I had a look at BYE but that didn't work on Windows 7 64-bit or a Windows XP sp2 VM. I'd been told it wouldn't work on W7 64-bit but thought it would work on the XP VM, but it blue screened when taking snaps.

Has anybody used APT with a 350d. I primarily want to use it just to assist focusing as I already have a timer remote?

Thanks, Perry.

Hi Perry,

I have feedback from several APT users that the combination of 32bits virtual machine, 32btis drivers for 350D and APT works fine...

[pel]

Thanks Ivo.

I've added XP to my laptop now via dual boot. Hopefully that will make thinks even easier, althought BYE is crashing on me still, even on 32-bit XP.

I will try APT.

Cheers, Perry.

[Yoddha]

Let me know if you have problems with APT I have tested it with 350D and 32bits machine...

[pel]

Let me know if you have problems with APT I have tested it with 350D and 32bits machine...

Thanks Ivo.