exactly....from now on things differ:1. i currently have a script (ubasic as lua crashes...) that autostarts when i manually turn on each cam
2. the script allows me to configure on the fly all cams, by pressing the remote button in different sequences i can choose all params (av,tv,zoom,etc...) and set them
3. after i set all the params, the script allows me to go in shooting mode, take focus on each cam till focus is really reached and then the scripts waits for remote click to initiate the actual shooting sequence
4. as i press the remote button, the cam initiates the shooting sequence and the screen goes blank and the camera hangs. As soon as i release the remote button the picture is immediatly taken by all the cams
now this is exactly what im currently doingbut the result is that not all the pictures are taken synchronously,we test with a flash device that is also triggered by the same remote button (gentStereo)and in the resulting picture i can clearly see that some of them are dark, some correct, some bright.Same cams give different results in different shots (cams do not have always the same delay).
Today i tried to exit script and alt/mode and perform click with the built-in functionality (controlMode=normal, SwitchMode=onePush) and on the results all shots were correctly lighten, there were very few cams with a very subtle, but acceptable, exposition difference. We made tests from 1/60 to 1/200 with these results.
... you're using a gentles device ? How are you connecting it to all 60 cameras ?
If I recall the code you posted weeks ago, you are pulse counting or pulse width measuring to set menu items ? And there is a specific sequence that says "done .. go on to the shooting step" ?
To be really clear, this is what happens now or this is what you would like to happen ?
If you are using the script posted here, that's what I would expect to see.
Good - confirms this will work acceptably.
So if I understand the above, once you have finished the menu setup and clicked the "magic sequence" to indicate "get ready to shoot", you would be okay with pressing the remote one last time to start the shooting process and releasing the remote to indicate a "precision shoot" should happen at exactly that point
Actually this is the current behaviour of my script, exactly what is doing. The problem is that shoot is not precise...
press "shoot_half"sleep 2000set_aflock 1do sleep 100 p = get_usb_power 1until p>0press "shoot_full"do sleep 100 p = get_usb_power 1 until p<1sleep 2000release "shoot_full"release "shoot_half"set_aflock 0
i have 2 gentStereos, each controls 30 camsa cable is connected from gentStereo to a usb splitter that serves 6/8 cams, from thatsplitter another cable connects to another usb splitter that server other 6/8 cams, etc.. till 30 camsThen the 2 remote button are triggered insantanously buy a third button that activates the 2 gentStereos buttons
I am the co-designer of those items and the feature was included for applications like yours.
Does the gentStereo device function as a simple switch (press button for 5V, release for 0v)
does it do a pulse sequence thing like the Ricoh CA-1 ?
From their web page, it seems to have several modes.
I read in a post that sync is not assured on cams after S95... could it be that?
The built'in USB sync is good but even that is not perfect comparing to whatI read SDM should be able to do (sync at 1/1000th with flash)
Because the capture task can be randomly interrupted by other tasks, it will never have 100% perfect synch (sub-msec).In fact, you can only expect about 80% with S95 (based on tests).
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