sHanzek
08-16-2006, 09:51 PM
While I was home 'sick' today, I finally got around to experimenting with the CameraWindow program, the Remote Shooting function, Windows XP Remote Assistance feature, and two computers.
What I've figured out is that I can:
(1) Connect my S2IS (or A620, or just about any Canon that works with the Camera Window program) to my laptop with a USB cable. The laptop is a 1.6GHz Thinkpad T30 with a wireless card.
(2) Start up the Camera Window program.
(3) Go into the Remote Shooting tab.
(4) Set up Remote Assistance on the laptop, and e-mail myself a request for help.
(5) Go to one of my other computers in the basement, check my e-mail. Find the request for assistance. Open the request.
(6) On the laptop, I have to accept the help by clicking yes on a box.
(7) On the computer in the basement, click on 'take control' of the laptop.
(8) Run up the stairs and click on 'yes' on the laptop to allow the other computer to take control.
If everything works, and all the stars are aligned, I can now go to my computer in the basement and control my camera connected to a laptop.
This weekend, weather permitting, I will position the camera on a tripod by my bird feeder, probably within a few feet. Probably should cover the camera with something to keep the poop off. Then I'll put my laptop near it, also covered and plugged in to AC. Then off to my basement, or I may hook up another laptop with wireless and sit in the kitchen watching thru the window. Then when a pretty finch lands at the feeder, I should be able to trigger the camera from inside the house.
Like I said, I've established all these steps work, but it's now 11pm, and I don't get to actually try it on the birds yet. And tomorrow is a baseball game to photograph.
Sometime this weekend I will write up more detailed instructions, with images and such, and slam it into a pdf file for any other crazy individual that wants to try this. I've had it in mind for several months, but never fully understood the use of Microsofts Remote Assistance. Actually, for MS, not too bad.
Steve
S2IS and A620
What I've figured out is that I can:
(1) Connect my S2IS (or A620, or just about any Canon that works with the Camera Window program) to my laptop with a USB cable. The laptop is a 1.6GHz Thinkpad T30 with a wireless card.
(2) Start up the Camera Window program.
(3) Go into the Remote Shooting tab.
(4) Set up Remote Assistance on the laptop, and e-mail myself a request for help.
(5) Go to one of my other computers in the basement, check my e-mail. Find the request for assistance. Open the request.
(6) On the laptop, I have to accept the help by clicking yes on a box.
(7) On the computer in the basement, click on 'take control' of the laptop.
(8) Run up the stairs and click on 'yes' on the laptop to allow the other computer to take control.
If everything works, and all the stars are aligned, I can now go to my computer in the basement and control my camera connected to a laptop.
This weekend, weather permitting, I will position the camera on a tripod by my bird feeder, probably within a few feet. Probably should cover the camera with something to keep the poop off. Then I'll put my laptop near it, also covered and plugged in to AC. Then off to my basement, or I may hook up another laptop with wireless and sit in the kitchen watching thru the window. Then when a pretty finch lands at the feeder, I should be able to trigger the camera from inside the house.
Like I said, I've established all these steps work, but it's now 11pm, and I don't get to actually try it on the birds yet. And tomorrow is a baseball game to photograph.
Sometime this weekend I will write up more detailed instructions, with images and such, and slam it into a pdf file for any other crazy individual that wants to try this. I've had it in mind for several months, but never fully understood the use of Microsofts Remote Assistance. Actually, for MS, not too bad.
Steve
S2IS and A620