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Just in case anyone is interested, in the next few days I'll be releasing a new version of the driver that can control the exposure time using the camera settings. This means if you want to take a long exposure it'll use BULB mode, but when you want to take flats or bias images it will be able to wi...

That is correct Robin. I don't know if the Sony API allows direct streaming of video - the "Live" view shown in the Sony Remote app is just a series of JPEG images (1024x960 pixels) that are displayed quickly enough by that app to simulate video-like behavior. ASCOM being ASCOM, it's not r...

Hi, sorry for long delay in responding - yes, driver is open-source, is known to work with SharpCap, and recently gained the ability to support both the 32 and 64-bit versions of SharpCap - here is a link to the wiki, it has links for download/install and various other things like troubleshooting: h...

Ahh, that makes sense. For what it's worth, I've found that when the driver is set to return an RGB48 image, it needs around 225MB in order to convert a 6000x4000 raw file into 6000x4000x3 (x2 for 16-bit values). (25MB for the original sony ARW file + 50MB for the uncompressed RAW image + 150MB for ...

Possible bug? I found the "Memory" tab in settings. Whenever I adjust the live-stack slider it tells me I cannot go over 2048MB due to non-registered copy, but when I click "Apply" the slider reverts to 1024MB regardless of what I had it set to. (If I use "OK" to exit d...

Thanks for the comments. I've updated the driver to support "Application Personalities" When SharpCap is selected, the image will be auto v-flipped, and when set for RGB Colour images will be exported as BGR. Re the invert thing, here's what I do: For RAW/RGGB images: * APT/SharpCap/NINA: ...

Hi again, Development of the Sony driver is progressing well, and I've been able to add some newly supported cameras (now supports a number of Sony A7 variants). I've noticed a couple of differences in how SharpCap renders images compared against APT. When the driver is configured to return an RGB i...

Thanks Robin, It's definitely an option, and not one I had previously considered, thanks for the idea. Once I get the driver more stable in SharpCap I'll look into doing that. Expect a couple more posts from me asking about how SharpCap is dealing with data.. it seems to present image data (RGB48) d...

Hi, I'm a little late to the Sony Driver party, but I too have written a basic driver that communicates directly with Sony Cameras over USB. It supports BULB mode on the camera along with the ability to pull either RGB or RGGB data and return it to SharpCap (in addition to saving the actual camera f...