The thoughts and ramblings on running the Microsoft stack in South Africa
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Remote shooting on a Canon SLR on 64 Bit Windows
This isn't about SBS but I am going to post it anyway. I dabble with a bit of photography on the side. I have a Canon 350D which isn't the fanciest camera but it works. Recently we rolled out iPhones to our company. A company called onOne software makes a pretty cool iPhone app to remote fire the camera. So I downloaded the remote app server and then discovered that Canon do not make a driver for any 64bit operating system. Most people just change the mode on the camera to Print/PTP to download their pics but it does not allow any remote shooting. This got me thinking.... Windows 7 has XP mode. So I downloaded XP mode for machine. Got it installed. Installed the Canon drivers for my camera in XP mode and attached the camera to the XP mode virtual machine. The virtual machine could see the camera so we were cooking with gas. I installed the remote app. I did have to install .Net 3.5 framework and then set the networking settings on the virtual machine to the wireless card on my notebook but I got the application to work... So anyone with Windows 7 64bit that needs to remote shoot with a Canon camera go with XP mode.
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