From: Ray Byrne <ray@in4media.co.uk>

Date: October 12, 2006 3:42:46 AM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] New Imaging Source Cameras "A" and "B" series No Longer Mac compatible

Hi Milton,

What a blow :o[ I suppose it's good that I didn't buy one but it has scuppered my plans though. I nearly bought a secondhand iMac specifically for it and also a filter wheel. I'm particularly keen on these cameras because of the great work Alan has done with his DMK camera. If a supplier had older stock of these cameras how would he ba able to tell it had the older firmware installed.

On 11 Oct 2006, at 23:52, Milton Aupperle wrote:

Hi Folks;

Over the past 6 months, I've had 3 reports of people having issues
with "The Imaging Source" DxK "A" and DxK "B" series cameras not
delivering video with Astro IIDC (two in the last week). By DxK I
mean DBK, DMK or DFK and it must be one of the "AF or "BF" series.
This is not an Astro IIDC issue, the cameras will not work with any
software on a Mac or if it does work, it does so intermittently.

To try and figure out what is going on, "The Imaging Source" sent me a
DFK 21BF04 camera today, and I can duplicate this behaviour perfectly.

To try and chase it down, I hooked it up to a FireWire bus analyzer
and captured all the transactions. Not a single error transaction was
received, but the camera never delivered a single packet of video
data. Effectively it was dead on a Mac and only works on a Windows PC.

I'm told these new cameras have a newer firmware version and that
appears likely to be the issue. Older versions of the camera work
fine, but not the new ones.

So for the time being, I can not recommend the currently shipping
"Imaging Source Cameras" as usable on a Mac. They will likely need a
new firmware upload to make them work, as this appears to be an
internal issue in the camera.

If I find out anything new, then I'll post back to the list ASAP.

Milton J. Aupperle
President
ASC - Aupperle Services and Contracting
Mac Software (Drivers, Components and Application) Specialist
#1005 - 815 14th Avenue. S.W.
Calgary Alberta Canada T2R0N5
1-(403)-229-9456
milton@outcastsoft.com
www.outcastsoft.com

ATB

Ray Byrne

T: 01793 608738 | W: http://www.in4media.co.uk