FreeFlow
All good so far. It did as you said. Cool!
Microfunguy
Copy
http://vp-systems.eu/download/cr2sdm.bas to the Scripts folder, load and run it.
FreeFlow
got that. I press the power button on camera see 1.85 then resumes to viewfinder mode with blue STEREO Zoom on top in Blue. With CAMremote all connected I then plugin USB into camera and see screen go to my DVD display.
With NO <ALT> button #7 will focus the green square. Press again and it goes back to white/Focus off. When I press button #5 it focus then press #5 again and it shoots. Button #6 does the same as #5. Button #8 does nothing.
I then press Print button on back camera while its on and CAMremote-SDM <ALT> shows at bottom. Button #8, 7, 6, 5 does nothing. Servos still work on buttons 1-4.
Then I press shutter button on camera and middle left on camera screen shows CR: USB/CHDK+. Button #8 does nothing. pressing Button #7 shoots does focus with no green box and shoots. Screen shows... [SHOOT 1].
Button #6 and #5 does nothing..
After a while the camera like powers off with lens OUT and servos still work with controller but the only way to get camera back on is to push the power button on the camera and the lens goes in the it comes back out and it boots 1.85 with Stereo Zoom on top with NO <ALT> on.
Microfunguy
When you say it powers off, do you really mean the screen blanks ?
Anyway, just for information, load and run test.bas.
FreeFlow
It has no lights on camera and nothing responds except pressing the on/off button on camera. I will run test.bas
FreeFlow
I also if I remember that is makes a faint tick sound when it blanks off with lens still out.
Loaded test.bas and...
Pressed RC-8 buttons once each.
# 5 = 19
#6 = 26
#7 = 2
#8 = no response shown
Popped out battery retried 2nd time...
Pressed RC-8 buttons once each.
# 5 = 19
#6 = 26
#7 = 1
#8 = no response shown
Microfunguy
When SDM is not in ALT mode, your controller is similar to an ordinary USB switch.
However, that is a separate topic, it is not what the switch is meant for.
Just for interest, in menu Bracketing/Overrides, set focus mode to Manual.
FAST should now be displayed at the top of the screen.
Any button on your controller should immediately cause a photo to be taken.
FreeFlow
With the focus mode to Manual still in the TEST.bas the reading are...
Pressed RC-8 buttons once each.
# 5 = 19
#6 = 26
#7 = 2
#8 = no response shown
loading up the cr2sdm.bas it did about the same.Does have FAST on top
Microfunguy
No, not in ALT mode !
Just press the buttons on your controller.
FreeFlow
Yep. Out of <alt> mode it does quickfocus then shoots in #5,6,7 and not #8 on the RC-8. #1-4 is servos still good. after a little while a faint tick and camera blanks BUT I could click #5 or 6 and would wake camera and shoot the photo
Microfunguy
In menu Advanced\Miscellaneous, set 'Disable LCD off' to Never.
Switch to ALT mode but do not run the script.
Leave the camera for five minutes.
The screen should not blank.
FreeFlow
Ah.. Plug'd to CAMremote is still shut off. and just stand alone camera the same. it shuts off
FreeFlow
when is it necessary to RUN THE SCRIPT with the shutter button on the camera? Still testing, it shuts down. May
Microfunguy
Do not plug-in CAMremote and leave for five minutes in ALT mode.
FreeFlow
looking around I noticed that in the camera menu there is a Power Saving. with Auto Power Down On/Off and display with 10 sec to 3 mins. the camera in ALT did blank out.
FreeFlow
I set the Display Off: to 10 Sec and it blanks out in 10 Sec's
Microfunguy
Turn off Auto power down.
FreeFlow
I did that and still blanks out. seems like them two menu items are separate and the camera does blank out but the green indicator light on the back of the
S95 is on show me powers on. I changed the Display OFF: to 10 sec to speed up the process. I count to 10 and POW! it blanks out.
Microfunguy
I will ask someone to check this, it is very unlikely that it is not working.
Try setting the LCD shutdown option to ALT and put camera in ALT mode.
FreeFlow
Changing it from never to ALT is now keeping the screen ON.