Seems the spammer has finished his holiday and resumed spamming. And the clean up I did last time wasn’t good enough (I’m on the current version of WP).
So another day wasted doing clean up — and this time I’ve done a lot more WP hardening. Hopefully that’ll fix it and I can get back to some more productive things!
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If it were not for the spammer. I’ve got a new rev of Camera Control nearly ready to release but have spent all my “free” time today cleaning up.
Wrote this VBA code which helped a bit to clean up the posts table:
' Manipulating a text file with VBA
' Loops through text file and creates revised one
' This code requires a reference (Tools > References) to Microsoft Scripting Runtime
' based on a sample here: http://www.ozgrid.com/forum/showthread.php?t=61822
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No? Me neither.
I wish I did though as this past weekend I lost my SB-800! I’ve been going around since then cursing my carelessness! Arggg!!!
Lets just say that when leaping hurriedly into and out of a taxi in the dark while holding a toddler in one hand and a camera bag in the other hand it is wise to make sure that the bag is fully
and securely
closed!
The little carrying case I had the flash in was also stuffed with little DIY items which I’ll have to remake such as the folding grid spot and the sticky IR filter as well as all the gels I’ll have to re-cut.
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A quick thank you from me to all of those of you who have blogged about, or posted in forums about, or told friends about this site and the Camera Control script.
It’s great to have your recommendation – even with caveats!
Please keep it up! 
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What is the lowest spec PC/Laptop that Camera Control will work on? I don’t know — I have a Thinkpad X31 running XP SP2 and it is ok though you can see a little sloweness at times.
Would it work on lower end, either old machine or one of the new light netbooks? Let me know!
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If you have made any time lapse vids using my script and they are publicly available (youtube, etc) I’d love it if you’d post a link! I’ve still not done anything interesting with it — I have a few ideas but never the right time to sit there with camera and computer for several hours. Sadly nothing worth seeing from where I live or work and even the sky has been cloudless for days so I can’t do the “clouds streaming across the sky” thing.
Anyway if you have had better luck, or better ideas, than me lets have a look!
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I saw this quote in a sig — but it was on a German forum and I was reading via Google translator so I’m not sure the original wording. But I love the quote, if you know where it comes from originally let me know!
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I can’t tell why it is that the Camera Control script doesn’t work for some systems, but I presume it is some difference in the WIA configuration or settings of that camera or PC. If you’d like me to try to fix it for your system then I’ll need some more details.
Use this WIA test program, from http://www.milika.net/, to get the details of your WIA connection and send them to me. You can leave them as a comment here or email them to me at raymond -at- this domain name (diyphotobits.com).
Thanks.
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A lot of people ask and I don’t know — it probably does work as it is using a standard Windows way of talking to the camera — WIA — but I don’t have the hardware to test it.
If a camera supports a “PTP” or “MTP” mode — and if when plugged into a PC it is visible in My Computer under the section for Scanners and Cameras
(not as a removable disk drive) then it is liable to work. The only big gotcha I can see is that some cameras — all the P&S I’ve tried — will not let me press the shutter button while they are plugged into the PC. It seems that ability is a DSLR thing.
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So I’m back from vacation and photosynth is released! So first thing is to try throwing up some holiday snaps into it — but even those where I was intending to pano them later didn’t really synth as I had hoped.
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