Canon cameras - Computer control

[AstroLuke]

Hi everyone,

Im looking for a canon camera at the moment, and i came to wonder. When you control your camera from the computer, can you then set the camera to take 30 x 30 second exposures, or do you have to click on take image 30 times manually?

/Lukas

[swag72]

I use EOSUtilities that comes free with the camera. Within that you can set any number of exposures, at any time and with a delay as well.

[brantuk]

Look at APT (Astro Photography Tool) if you have a Canon camera - it's really good and the license is only about £12

[fwm891]

Agree with both above. EOS Utilities is free with the camera plus other software. As this hobby is expensive enough already use the EOS Utilities and see how you get on first, APT (I think) has a free demo download so try that too

Francis

[reddoss]

If you use ESO Utilities to take a series of exposures you have to set three parameters a) the exposure time the interval time and c) the number of expsoures.

What is often not explained is that the interval time is in fact the expsoure time plus the interval time.

Therefore if lets say in your case you want to take 30 x 30 second exposures with a 15 second interval between expsoures then your setting will be a) exposure time = 30 Sec Interval time - 45 Sec and c) number of exposures - 30

Hope this helps

[Sparrow]

I find the provided EOS utilities absolutely fine for my imaging and with the live preview screen and magnifier (1000D) focussing is fairly straight forward too.

Regards

John

[perfrej]

I always use Nebulosity 2 for capture. You get nice FITS files right into your computer and not on the card, and it compensates for the fact that the camera has no filter. Great piece of software for close to nothing.

All the best,

Per