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I have had a problem with my ZWO camera not responding to an image request when I changed exposure and gain.

I would run about an hours worth of subs at 2 minute exposure and 100 gain then go focus at 3 second exposure and 300 gain. The camera would hang and not return an image when I switched to focus

I was running the focus in live mode and I recently changed to still mode for all my sequence imagining including the focus.

I have not had an issue with the camera hanging up since.

If you have had a problem with your ZWO camera doing this try still mode worked for me.

Life is good.

Hi,

worth checking the log to see if there is anything interesting being recorded if it happens again.

SharpCap runs ZWO cameras in still mode internally (even with SharpCap in live mode) if the exposure is 2s or more, aside from some rare conditions (very old cameras, auto exposure enabled, running on USB2), so I would expect the two modes to work very similarly.

cheers,

Robin

Thanks for the reply, that is good info to know.

I have not had a hang-up since I made the change. I will try the live mode again to see what happens and compare log entries if I can get it to fail