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[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] puppettestpilot:
Hi,

OMG where did you find this OTG + Y Cable?

I've been looking everywhere for one for my Moto Razr for flash drive reading!

Also, I've seen OTG USB Hubs on ebay but only for the Samsung Galaxy Tab, but I don't think any had input power - not sure if that would help with what you're trying to do(?).

Cheers

Puppet
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] darkshift:
Histogram

I mean it seems to me that the graph lacks one pixel bar for the highest value... so no spike can be seen even if most of the image blinks. I often check the histogram for spikes on either end. Especially red color is often critical.

I'll check the info mode, thank you.

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Hi, I still can't figure how to see exposure information in image review with SGS II.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Chainfire:
What exactly are you missing ?

See attachment.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Chainfire:
v0.85 released !

DSLR Controller updated to v0.85 on the Android Market ... Please note that Market may take up to 48 hours to update.

It doesn't include half the things that were scheduled for this update, it's being released early to fix a bug in relation to the USB host supporting kernels that were just released for the Samsung Galaxy S (and family).

Changelogs can be found here:

http://dslrcontroller.com/download.php#changelog-085
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] reneph:
Its available! So no need to wait :) Thanks a lot!

EDIT: Don't exactly if this happened in the previous version, but if I set AF-mode to manual focus in the app, I cannot go back to One-Shot or an other AF-mode. To get back AF I have to switch the AF-mode on the lens to MF and then back to AF...
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Chainfire:
Well, that shouldn't be. Looking into that. Are you sure it isn't merely the display ?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] reneph:
Yes I am sure it's not the display. The button to change af-mode disappears after switching to mf. So there is nothing to click anymore.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] trakuna:
I have a windows tool called "DSLR Remote Pro" and with this tool moving the zoombox works. So I guess it's basically possible. If I can help you by dumping some usb logs (don't know how actually :( ) just say it...
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] msatter:
I tried to start HDR modus and got an error message that the camera was not set to M, Av or Tv mode despite the camera was in M mode.

I seems if the the ISO set at auto it results in this message.

When I use the ISO setting in HDR/AEB I see sometimes as last ISO ?123 (8000) or ?125 (10000).

These are all cosmetic things and the functionality is not impaired.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] m4ssnet:
my Nikon D5100 is screaming :(

Have you start to develop Nikon Vers. ? It will be possible in future ?

You are THE man, tnks for all your works ;)
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Chainfire:
Ah yes. HDR/AEB does not work with ISO set to auto. I should adjust the message.

I've added those ISO values to the last. I'm probably still missing a couple above 12800 as well (I have the 25600 value, there may be two more steps between 12800 and 25600)
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Chainfire:
I really need a VxWorks camera in-hand to test this out. Unfortunately the only VxWorks cam I have easy access to is a non-liveview model.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] reneph:
No chance that some of the vxworks-owner can help you? I guess its not easy to do so, but of course we would of course try the best to support you...
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Canon 50D:
What's a .mm1 file?

I see it listed on my CF card along with all my raw .cr2 file.

Everytime it's listed it is a duplicate IMG #, not a separate IMG #, like IMG_101.cr2 and IMG_101.mm1

I'm using a canon 50d on a toshiba thrive.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Dblt:
I'm having a problem getting this to work.

I'm using a Samsung Galaxy S (GT-I9000) running stock JVU with the OTG USB host

I purchased this cable from Amazon <link removed as I cannot post links> :( But it is an Official Samsung USB Cable

Says its for a Galaxy S II but I figured it would work, When I plug it in to my phone the USB Host Controller app says that I have connected an OTG cable and the phone is in Host mode.

I then plug another cable straight in to my Canon EOS 1000D (mostly supported according to the dslrcontroller website) turn the camera on and then put it in a supported Live View compatible function, I then press SET to get Live View and run DSLR Controller. But it tells me it cannot find my camera (exact message is the usual about compatible camera)

I checked all the settings in the camera config as per the dslrcontroller website but no luck.

Has anyone done the same and got it working? I've skimmed this thread but its pretty long and I apologise if I missed someone already posting about this.

I've tried two different cables, tested the adapter on another phone (google nexus) which can see any connected USB flash drives so cable is ok (whether or not it should work with my phone I don't know)

The camera doesn't seem to be enumerated within the usb host controller app so maybe I am falling at the first hurdle?

Does the camera still need a Y cable to provide power since it has its own battery power supply anyway? if so this could be causing the problem with it not being seen?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Chainfire:
Can't really say - it may be really easy, but I still need it in-hand to figure it out.

SGS needs a seperate power supply for USB host (at the moment), so either a powered Y cable or a powered USB hub is needed.

This is mentioned in the first post of the SGS USB host thread, as well as a great many times in the rest of that thread ...
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Chainfire:
Focus bracketing test:

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[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Dblt:
Sorry I thought that was just for devices which require a power supply such as HDD / flash drives etc not devices which are self powered

Back to school to learn basic comprehension for me then, thanks :D
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Avalon-99:
Since version 0.85, I couldn't close DSLR Controller. It's always minimized in the Notificationbar.

Gesendet von meinem GT-I9100 mit Tapatalk

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I did have a communication error, I think this was the reason
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Migimli:
I do own a 40d, and live in .nl what dobyou need for how long?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Chainfire:
Which area? Near Eindhoven myself at the moment ... I'd probably need it a few days. Is this your spare or main cam ?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Migimli:
Dm....
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] carbendi:
digital focus ring maybe?

i hope its not spoken before but it would be great to have kind of a focus ring to pull the focus just like the okii usb follow focus. so that instead of pressing the arrows one at a time we could change the focus dinamicaly turning the digital weel that is placed in the center of the screen (maybe?)

im talking about something like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEj3oyp4S3s
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Chainfire:
It's something to think about :)

( Wouldn't a digital wheel overlay in the center of the screen ruin your liveview experience due to your finger constantly blocking liveview ? )
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Chainfire:
DSLR Controller v0.86 released !

DSLR Controller v0.86 has been released !

Fixes some bugs, adds (work-in-progress) focus bracketing and timelapse (including AEB/HDR-lapsing!)

Changelog: http://dslrcontroller.com/download.php#changelog-086

As usual, Market may take 48 hours to notice there's an update.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] MrKwatz:
The focus wheel would rather be off to either side for easy control by your thumb and with minimal if any overlap of the liveview frame.

Good to see timelapse pushed out. I'll be putting it to use tomorrow
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] jeffp25:
Why a wheel, and not a simple vertical slider: slide up to shift focus to a further distance, and slide down to shift focus to a closer point. With a wheel, it is hard to know which way to rotate to "wheel" to move the focus further/closer. Even +/- isn't obvious. The one issue with this control would be the limits/sensitivity, so you need a option somewhere to set the sensitivity and maybe button control below the slide (or simply double-tapping on the slider) reset the current position as the mid point. Hmm, for the sensitivity, you could use the two-finger zoom option on the control to increase (bring fingers together) or decrease (spread fingers apart)?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] MrKwatz:
Doing it a slider way you could do it like you say with the pinch gesture but have that pinch dynamically scale the slider area vertically to visually show the increased/decreased steps.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] apsphoto:
Canon 1DMIV issues

Hi, I have a 5Dm2 and a 1Dm4. With the latest version, I can use the 5D2 just fine. However if I connect the 1DM4 then I have all kinds of issues. I cannot change camera modes and things are erratic and the app crashes the Motorola Xoom, other things do not work as well. I am running Ice Cream Sandwich (just updated), and I downloaded the latest app of dslr controller. Any suggestions? I can take a picture but I am not able to change any of the settings on the camera, like I can with the 5Dm2. Probably something obvious but I am not seeing it.

Thanks for any suggestions.

Alan
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Chainfire:
Can 5DmII users confirm whether while DSLR Controller is in liveview mode you can also turn on liveview on the cam, and use the shutter button ?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Chainfire:
Actually a similar problem with 1Dm4 was fixed a few releases ago for msatter... Not happy to hear that it's back.

@msatter is your 1Dm4 still working as it should with the latest version ?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] reneph:
Thanks for the greate update! Focus bracketing looks pretty nice and its working like a charm!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] msatter:
All is still working on my 1D M4. Firmware on the camera 1.10.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] jguerdat:
Yup, works for me.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] itsskin:
Hi!

Today I put software in real use with HDR and personally think it is inconvenient to use. Let me explain. When shooting HDR ''avarage exposure'' is not so important. What you are looking for is starting and end points. DSLR Controller's approach is based on this avarage exposure with compensations. So, in bright sky my tablet screen is unreadable and I use camera's screen to compose and check starting and ending points. They do not have to be 100% precise, as you can always shoot wider. Let's say I determine 1/1000 as start, click to 1/10 and decide this as an end. Then open DSLRC and get 1/10 as avarage starting point... :( This is bad. Software force me to use -+ bracketing. If use compensation of starting point to make 1/10 as an end - it's unreliable, because keep changing if I make changes in number of steps.

PLEASE, implement the mode, when you specify start point, tell software to +bracket or -braket, how many steps and what the step is, showing calculated end point. This will be much more usable, IMHO.

THANK YOU!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Chainfire:
Next update will allow you to switch between center, positive, and negative direction modes. Hopefully that'll make everybody happy :)
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] itsskin:
Thx again! Can't wait :D
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] kindsma1:
People who wondered about the ainol novo 7 elf/aurora compatibility I have tested my elf and works like a charm with the 600d straight out of the box. Comes w. Usb host cable (so just buy the app and you are set to go) android 4.0, 1024x600 screen and is snappy. Best 149 $ ever spent!!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] rubensano:
This app did great improvement from the last two updates. Both Timelaps and Focus Bracketing was very smooth on my 1100D/T3

Keep up the excellent work!

Ruben
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] juanmirg:
it works on toshiba folio 100

Hi, it works on toshiba folio 100 and eos 600d with CM9 experimental (4.0.3): http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1416136
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Chainfire:
For those noticing HDR "drifting" when doing repeated HDR shots and HDRlapsing, next update should fix that. Typical case of the camera lying to the app whether or not it has committed a setting.

There'll also be a DoF button in timelapse setup to help with the DoF-twist-lens trick.

I'm playing with this focus pull thing. Does anybody actually have that USB controller wheel ? How smooth is it ? Lens driving only works at pretty much 10 steps/second, so if you're recording at 30 fps, you'll have 3 frames with the same focus, and it all isn't perfectly smooth ...
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] softimage69:
Canon 60D and Novo7 Aurora

I just got my Novo7 Aurora set up to access the market, and I downloaded the Remote Release app. Connected my 60D but it says that it could not find a compatible camera. The 60D is supported course. The device is a USB host device (thumb drive currently plugged into right now) and the tablet is running on Cortex processor / ICS 4.0.1.

Chainfire, any chance of what might be going on here. Once I confirm that it will work on the tablet.. consider yourself another customer. :)

PS I set Super User to "allow" (green dot) for Remote Release. Also a small message at bottom says Memory Class Very Low 48 briefly upon launching.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] pspilot:
It definitely would and apart from that, I generally can't see wheels work well on touch screens. Drawing a circle without tactile feedback or watching closely is kinda difficult. Much nicer would be a linear control, maybe over the whole screen without a certain area. Just dragging a finger from left to right could move the focus (or up/down). Then you could also pick the position, where the liveview would be least affected.

EDIT: sorry, didn't see there were answers already :).

Now regarding 0.86: I have no special issues with the mkIV (FW 1.1.0), but there are problems in general. Sometimes the communication seems to 'hang' and then everything goes down until I unplug the host cable. With the focus bracketing I had nearly no luck. The setup works fine, but when I hit start, nothing happens, no shooting. When I cancel and leave the focus bracketing screen, the whole thing goes black and I have to pull the cable again. Now that happened 8 out of 10 times, twice I could see it working and it shot fine 10 bracketed pictures. The start of the whole procedure seems to be tricky, once it's running, it works :). It happens with the mkIV and the 5DII nearly the same, actually with the 5DII I had no luck at all. The 2 successful tries happened to be with the 1D.

But hey, the focus bracketing itself is a great start, thanks! I think that's already nearly all it needs, plus a bit experience with the lens and the steps - voilà, focus stacking :).

May I ask another question: I don't get the meaning of that button in the left up corner. It obviously shows the exposure mode, but you can't change the mode with it, right? Instead the AF mode is called up and modified. Is that correct or is it just not working right? I would love to be able to change the exposure mode with that button and put that AF-mode switching in the button below (AF or MF). It makes more sense there anyway. Or do I get it totally wrong :)?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Chainfire:
That doesn't sound good at all. Have you considered replacing your cables? Because yes, DSLR Controller sometimes crashes or freezes, but with good quality cables it does work pretty well, not like you describe. Lots of people are using it with 5DII succesfully.

(I actually read a thread yesterday regarding USB cables and that many cables use very thin copper which has too high resistance and bits tend to fall over)

The topleft button turns liveview on/off. Canon's cannot change exposure mode without actually using the mode dial on the camera. The button below that switches between AF and Remote-Manual-Focus mode. R-MF is not true MF, but it does skip a lot of auto-focussing in certain situations.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Chainfire:
Check your cables. I'm not sure if Android API or root mode is being used by the app, but generally on ICS, if your setup is correct, you connect your camera to the tablet and turn it on, you will receive a popup asking you which app to open. You do not open DSLR Controller manually.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] softimage69:
Hrrm... i connected the camera to the tablet, turned on the camera, but no pop up. I have tried enabling usb debug as well... but no pop up. I will have to check into my settings a bit more.

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Would the Magic Lantern be fudging the connection at all?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] death__hound:
galaxy s with ics

i tryed to download it but it dose not show up in market
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] msatter:
I can confirm those hangs on my Qware tablet but not on my SGS2 and when I use an shorter (20cm) USB cable the hangs are not occurring anymore. It seems to me that the timings are a little to tight to catch the jams in communication or slowness of the tablet.

I had yesterday also once a black screen on start-up with the tablet and normal cable. Pulling the USB cable stopped DSLRcontroller and all worked again.

I just tested with the canon software (EOS Utility) and I can change exposure mode when Liveview is enabled.

It appears that only the camera without an dial knob are capable of that and I can't test it because I don't have camera with a dial knob.

Update:

I have tested the normal cable in a separate room where there is less electric interference from the computer an other equipment. The communication was a lot better.

So get a shielded cable if you are working with long USB cables or go to an area which has low electric interference. The tablet/phones do not supply a lot of power to the USB leads so the tolerances are low.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] pspilot:
Indeed I did, but I did it again and had success :). It is a bit strange though, since my 'usual' cable is the Canon orginal one (with an OTG adaptor). Used a shorter one now (really short!) and everything worked, strange. Also, up to v0.86 never had issues. Anyway, I will keep it in mind.

Well, there are many considerations regarding USB2 cables. For charging a device with 1 Amp or even more, the copper for sure is an issue. For the communication the resistance is hardly a factor, since there are no currents to speak of. But the pairing, the capacity and the shielding can be issues for communication, that is true. Anyway, there ARE bad USB cables, but mostly they're just too long, if things fail. 5 meter is the longest by USB2 specs (without active repeater), but I recommend no longer cables than 3 meters. The one I use for tests is not even 1,5. Now the 30cm cable worked ... as I said, I keep looking into that.

Ahh ... I never related that to a switch, stupid me. I realized the liveview would go, but didn't think it was a feature :D. Strange that the 1D doesn't support the mode switching neither, since it has no dial. It's done with buttons like all other functions. But ok, not possible is good enough for me :).

Since I could try the focus stacking a bit now, I had 2 suggestions right away:

1) Obviously a focus step is the smallest available, right. Maybe you could offer also these bigger steps from the normal shooting screen after AF (the ones with the 2 or 3 arrows). Reason is, when the stacking goes over a wider focus range you need ALOT of the single steps which again need alot of time between the shots.

2) A 10-step button for the steps would be nice too, like the ones for the # of shots. A good alternative would be a nice key-repeat routine :).

Other than that, I love this focus stacking thing! Unfortunately the weekend is already nearly 'full'. I'd love to do a few nice stacked macros ... maybe sunday :).

EDIT: sorry, edited too long to see msatters answer :). Yep, communication timing seems to be 'tight' on 0.86. @Chainfire: is that something you can influence or is it just a USB lib or something?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] apsphoto:
followup on 1dm4

Hi,

I ended up taking the battery out of the camera and resetting it. I am on 1.1.0 of the camera firmware. Most things seem to work but I cannot change modes via the tablet. If I have the camera in manual mode and I connect to the tablet, it says "M" if press the "m" the camera live view turns off and I cannot change the mode via the tablet, nothing comes up. I can press the button on the camera and then select the mode and then press the area on the tablet and live view comes back on. Is that how it is supposed to work? (not a complaint just trying it understand how it works.)

Thanks, really enjoying the app.

Alan
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] msatter:
Yes, thats the way it is programmed. It may change in the future for the 1D series.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Chainfire:
Well to be fair, I wasn't aware the 1D didn't actually have a mode dial. It seems switching AEM is possible - however this is not included because I can't test it (yet). It also leaves me with the dilemma of when to switch liveview on/off ... as this button will become dual-purposed if I add AEM switching.

I'll look into these suggestions. I'll probably implement pretty much as suggested.

EDIT: In the upcoming release, all three step sizes are supported and +- 10 buttons are added :)

Depends on which part of the communication is problematic, but generally, no.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] trakuna:
Hi Chainfire,

Here is another idea: Would it be possible to translate the app into different languages? My father was very impressed by the possibilities but does not speak English at all... I would offer you to translate the value xml to German. :)
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Chainfire:
I will not look into translations before version 1.0 is released.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] msatter:
You could look at the possibility to dual use the "live" button (two buttons lower) to switch exposure mode when live view is off on a 1D series camera.

When liveview is on then the button resumes it normal function to set the auto-focus mode in liveview.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] mermaidkiller:
I tested 0.86beta on my Galaxy S2 / EOS 40 and it worked.

But, when taking a photo (Liveview was on) I got an error message and closed the app. The mirror in the camera did not fall down which normally does occur when closing DSLRc.

I restarted DSLRc but the splash screen persisted even after exiting DSLRc !

In the task manager it did not show up and even not in a root task manager such as Supermanager.

After 2 minutes it finally disapperared. I repeated and could reproduce the problem. As I said, all the time the mirror in the camera was up.

Furthermore it works fine but I still miss the download to device option like EOS Utility on PC / Mac does.