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What the fuck? 4chan ate my fucking three-paragraph post. Never had that happen before.
Anyone ever try automating their XT1 externally? I have an outside intervalometer, but I'm talking from a machine for programmatic purposes. The main options available that I checked out were 1) darktable (windows and linux) 2) entangle (linux), 3) digicamcontrol (windows), and 4) fuji acquire x (windows). Of all four, only 2 and 4 did anything close to what I could consider useful; for some reason, 1 couldn't detect the camera for tether control and 3 was totally busted. 2 has no timelapse implementation, so no dice on that, but the singular remote shutter seemed to work for a couple shots, and you can select all of the programmable options you could care about, though I had to allow it to eject my camera and then hit retry after that claimed to have failed before I could do capture, and ending "continuous capture" for live view fucks it all up. 4 doesn't have any remote capture functionality, and I'm curious if anyone here has the HS-V5 software that Fuji offers for windows, as it claims you can use that instead. It probably sucks anyway.
Regardless, the two reasons I have this in mind are simple:
1) For astrophotography, remote control would be nice, especially by changing shit up without having to fuss with my intervalometer's interface. More dynamism is more better.
2) For lightning (coming up this season), I need to dump data as quickly as the camera can push it (8fps, reportedly), and I don't want to buy a hyperspendy SD card for the sake of that, since 128/256GB V90 is not even enough for 8*32=256MB/s, and most of the hyperfast shit that would work is fucking ludicrously expensive. If I can just dump data down USB/Wifi, I should be able to get closer than my current V30 card can handle, and I have way more disk space on my main machines in the first place, PLUS I'll be taking time off of copying from cards. Super win. I'll have to do more testing with acquire X to see.
