I will have my cameras on GEM mounts, polar aligned and tracking at the solar rate. However, that will likely take some time and miss a few partial eclipse shots. I almost thinking about stopping SEM 3 min prior to totality and starting BYEOS to precisely focus and frame the sun. How do you plan to check framing and focus before totality? I see that there is a Live view function under Camera. To add cameras 2 and 3 to my script, does it matter where I put in the lines? or can I simply group them together? ie Hi Jerry, I am thinking about switching to SEM from EO to control my 3 cameras (70d, 550s, ThetaS). maybe do a burst of 2 frames, then a second or two later another burst of 2 frames. You are going to have to compromise on what you do. If you want to spread the burst out, you need to use the FOR (INTERVALOMETER) loop.īut that is considerably slower than the burst mode. At the end the burst rate obviously isn't 5pfs though. You can shoot more frames in a burst than 8, but it will slow down. If you take a burst of 8 frames, wouldn't some get lost? Would the first 3 be overwritten, or the last 3 not saved? I'd like to do more than 1-2 shots for the diamond ring at third contact, maybe try to spread the 5 out over 3 seconds, but can't quite figure out how to make it work. The camera in your sample script lines is a Canon 600D/EOS Rebel T3i, no?Īccording to the SEM docs, the 600D can only hold 5 images in the buffer. Jerry, those lines are about something I'm trying to figure out. Overall I am impressed, there are so many features that I didn't realize I wanted! Now that I have the software figured out, I hope the weather holds up in Columbia MO. If you want to go this route, select the "Display->Display Major Timers", this even gives you a message of when to remove/replace your solar filters. At the very least I may just use a remote with my camera and the pop-up timers/messages from the program. I will try the basic configuration wizard to get a feel for what happens, but the syntax looks pretty intuitive and easily extensible. Going to work on some scripting later today to see how the camera controls work. What is everyone doing?Īlso, I'm not much of a scripting savvy person.is the script generated by the configuration wizard good enough? I would love to use the MLU if it's safe. I've set my 7D up with the generic script and figured it needs a 3 sec space between exposures or it starts missing frames. I thought I read somewhere it was risky to use with the canons.the camera might skip exposures. I'm normally a dedicated window's user, but SEM is so good I had to use it.Įdited by Jerry Lodriguss, 25 July 2017 - 09:30 PM. I actually dug out my wife's old Macbook pro and installed an SSD drive in it and a new OS just so I could use SEM. I think it is much more powerful than EO. If you are a professional photographer, then you need to pay for it. It is donation ware and if you use it for the eclipse you should show your thanks by making a donation. There is no pro version, there is only one version. Is your camera connected and recognized and a nickname defined for it in setup? You don't have something set up correctly. I don't have my mac in front of me right now, but I don't remember any of the settings being grayed out in the wizard. The setting after ISO defines how many frames are in the burst.ģ. if you want to rock and roll on frames per second, just use the TAKBST like this:ĬHGCSSL,C2,-,00:05.0,600D,, ,100,, ,, ,Set to max frame rate MLU is set in the command line in the script. Second contact time is fixed for the location you input, that's why you can't change it. It will run like a bat out of hell with just a USB cable and the right commands.ġ. I'm using SEM and I have nothing but good things to say about it. Is there a paid version of this software that allows unfettered use of this software? How does this compare functionality wise with EO?įirst impressions: I am somewhat underwhelmed. I dont see any way of configuring photography of specific phenomena in the wizard such as Baileys beads. It also doesn't seem to be able to utilize a serial-> USB cable in addition to the USB cable.ģ. The manual makes a lot of noise about using a fast card for performance but I dont see much point shooting at 3+ FPS when MLU is not supported. I am unable to configure basic things like simulated time: second contact. However I am running into all kinds of basic difficulties.ġ. I really like the UI of this program - a bit more intuitive than Eclipse Orchestrator. I started playing with SEM while my serial cable -> shutter release adapter from Hap Griffin is still in transit.
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