the only thing I cab figure I did to get it to work was change the order I introduced new things. what I mean by that is I think I started the program and then turned on the camera but I needed to plug thw camera in and then start the program. I think I had reas somewhere that if you do it wrong you need to reboot the system. On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 9:43 PM Michael Butash wrote: > That's cool, things like that tend to either just work via legacy means, > or will not without some love. YMMV, but at least it worked out. > > I should look into my old sony camera still floating around from a few > years ago. Maybe stubborn people worked around sony stupidity. > > -mb > > + > > On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 5:21 PM Michael wrote: > >> I finally got darktable to work with it. >> >> On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 7:53 PM Michael Butash >> wrote: >> >>> That looks like some proprietary software crap they use, so good luck on >>> that. Sony loves to drm things weirdly too, so unless someone loved the >>> camera enough to reverse engineer the protocol, and write software to >>> replace windoze apps, likely not. Apparently their native format even >>> requires conversion under linux that doesn't exist. >>> >>> Maybe there's a community hidden out there in google searches, maybe not >>> yet. Doesn't look like it. Welcome likely to useless proprietary >>> software/device hell. I had this with another sony wifi camera, super high >>> rez zeiss lens, device of theirs years ago that proved mostly useless >>> through software execution. Don't trust sony cameras or software, >>> particularly outside windoze or mac, so mostly at all. Even android >>> software to interact with it was abysmal, never tried an ipad or like >>> device, perhaps I should... >>> >>> There's always a windoze vm and usb pass-through, usually. >>> >>> -mb >>> >>> On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 4:50 PM Michael wrote: >>> >>>> does anyone here know anything about imaging edge? I can't get my >>>> camera (a7r2) to connect to it. I realize it is a windows thing but I can't >>>> find any forums to help so I figure I will ask the vast brain trust of >>>> PLUG. I know the camera isn't broken because I can get tethering to work >>>> with Linux on my main computer. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> >> -- >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- :-)~MIKE~(-: