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jcinpv · 02-27-2022

I have found that when taking a series of very short exposure images, at some point the camera reports BUSY, stops taking capture requests, and everything comes to a halt. I have to power cycle the Canon to recover.My take is that the Camera is repor...

jcinpv · 10-09-2016

Windows 10 Anniversary running under Parallels 12 on a new MacBook Pro.Plug in my 6D and it shows up in Devices.Plug in my 7D and it does NOT show up in Devices.I have two other cameras (not Canon) that also work with Windows.Using the same USB cable...

jcinpv · 05-03-2022

I will give this a try, but I don’t see how that’s going to help anything because my 6D has been modified for astrophotography and there is no auto focus in play because it is disabled by the fact that there is no lens attached. Thank you for the sug...

jcinpv · 02-27-2022

Since two other astro apps don't have this problem, they are either waiting until they display the image before taking another or they detect the BUSY message and pause until it goes away. Either way, it appears that N.I.N.A. can workaround this.

jcinpv · 02-27-2022

I just ran that same manual test with my 70D. Got a busy message after about 30 images.

jcinpv · 02-27-2022

I ran a manual test saving images to the card. Lowest possible exposure setting. Fastest possible capture sequence. It eventually - after many captures - stopped taking images and showed the busy message. That's why I think it is a buffer full issue.

jcinpv · 02-27-2022

The flash is disabled for astro photos. Mirror lockup also disabled and even removed by the mod.I use two different astro apps. Backyard EOS works fine when taking a 100 bias images with shortest possible exposure. N.I.N.A. is the one that fails. Thi...

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