imaging edge

[Michael Butash]

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

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On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 5:21 PM Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I finally got darktable to work with it.
>
> On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 7:53 PM Michael Butash <michael at butash.net> 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 <bmike1 at gmail.com> 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.
>>>
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