From: Milton Aupperle <milton@outcastsoft.com>

Date: November 27, 2005 12:08:54 AM MST

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] DMK camera fixes itself - is there some kind of timeout?


Hi Steve;


On 26-Nov-05, at 11:29 PM, Steve Bryson wrote:


Hi all - I wrote earlier that my DMK camera had a problem showing all white output.  On a

lark I plugged it back in  after an hour, and it works!  Then I recalled that I had unplugged it

while Astro IIDC is still running, so I tried that again, stopped and restarted Astro IIDC .

Result: all white output. This time, however, it was working again after stopping Astro IIDC

and restarting in a couple minutes.  The first time the problem persisted for over 30 minutes.


Does unplugging the camera while images are being captured put it in some funny state

which eventually times out?  Anyone else see this behavior with their DMK cameras?


That doesn't happen with 8 other cameras I have here.



Happy news, except that I'm calling it quits for the night.


The problem you describe might also be the bad Sony CCD issue too that was brought up last week here. If any of the wires on the CCD are loose or not making good contact you can get weird behavior. You can also get weird behavior like that from bad FireWire cables  too.


You can check both by moving the camera around when attached and seeing if video stops being displayed when moved. If it does, somehtign isn't right.


HTH..


Milton J. Aupperle

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