What standards are you talking about? While the "Universal Serial Bus" might be a standard, control of a camera device is far from a standard. USB is a bus protocol standard and has nothing to do with controlling a camera. Wrong layer of the infrastructure. Camera control software connecting over the USB port needs a customized USB device driver to work.
I can empathize with your frustration (Olympus does little better in regard to tethered camera control, even Nikon and Canon have their issues), but pointing to the USB standard and calling foul is pretty similar to yelling at a mechanic for a flat tire when the last thing he did on your car, two months ago, was change the windshield wipers and top up the oil. On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Robert Blakely <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm currently pissed at PEXTAX corp. > > After a hiatus due to severe injury, I decided to go out with my buddies to > (outside) Anza, CA to image the stars. I really don't have the many > Benjamins to spend on an astro camera so do this with my K20D and I use the > PENTAX Remote Assistant to do this. Fine. Now during the hiatus, I upgraded > my computers to Windows 7. Well, it seems that the Remote Assistant will > only work up through Vista!!! PENTAX has no plans to upgrade this software > and all their cameras after the K20D will not offer fully remote > operation!!! So much for the company of compatibility. Welcome to the > company of decreasing capability. > > Now this is a USB connection. There are standards. If the folks that wrote > the software had kept this in mind when writing the interface, there would > be no compatibility problem. > > FYI, this feature is useful not just for astrophotography, but also medical > imaging, Industrial imaging, surveillance imaging and many other imaging > uses where automated remote operation is immensely a useful and necessary. > > I am considering dumping all my (considerable) Pentax equipment and > converting to (probably) Nikon. At least the functionality I need will > always be there as I upgrade - not only the camera equipment but also my > necessary ancillary equipment. > > Call me pissed in California. > > Bob... > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > I don't mind if you don't like my manners. > I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. > I grieve over them on long winter evenings. > -- Humphrey Bogart, "The Big Sleep" > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
