300D, RemoteCapture and bulb

Hi there,

I wanted to sequence bulb exposures with the 300D and RemoteCapture. I can select bulb as an exposure time, but RemoteCapture refuses to shoot. With 30s and less everything is perfect.

Anyone who made this work?

Thanx
Tom

Hey Tom,

I don't have the 300D, but I do have the Nikon D70 and Capture 4 (the Nikon equivalent of RemoteCapture). Capture 4 won't let me shoot bulb shots via the software - only via the camera or the remote. I'm thinking they just didn't code it into the firmware/software. Perhaps Canon did the same thing as Nikon.

Cheers,
Paul Mikulecky
Lost Pencil Animation Studios Inc.
http://www.lostpencil.com

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Yes, RemoteCapture won't handle bulb mode.

To control the shutter, you can use software such as DSLRFocus or Images Plus. These work in concert with a custom parallel port shutter release cable (one end plugs into a laptop's parallel port, the other into the 300D's remote shutter release plug).

You can make your own cable: see http://www.stek.ch/Stefano/Serial-DSLR for details. Or you can pay some one to build it for you... see http://www.hapg.org/astrocables.htm for Hap Griffin's cables.

Info about DSLR Focus is available at http://www.dsrfocus.com; info about Images Plus is available at http://www.mlunsold.com.

Hope that helped.

Thank you for your quick response.

Seems very strange to me: the Canon IR-Remote Control is just sending IR signals and CAN control the camera in bulb. But the USB-connection cannot. Must definitely be a bug or lousy implementation.

Thanx for the soft- and hardware tips. Unfortunately the serial port is used for LX-200 connection and the parallel for the guide cam Maybe I have to look for an additional serial card, maybe USB to serial. Its a laptop...

Still have some hope, cause I got the latest version of RemoteCapture now

Take care
Tom