SONY A55 not working with SONY DLSR driver.

[philpugh51]

This issue being reported in here at request of Jasem..

I have a SONY A55 which is not working with the SONY DLSR driver. I have attached two verbose logs of the event but the nub of the issue seems to be that the driver does not detect that the camera is in BULB mode - get a 'cannot find exposure widget' error.

FWIW This is also reporduceableon my NEX-6 and NEX-7 bodies - but I understand these have a different firmware structure to the Alpha models. Getting either to work would be great.

log_18-54-36.txt
log_11-16-45.txt

[knro]

Not sure if I asked you this before, but can you capture with gphoto2?

gphoto2 --debug --debug-logfile=gphoto.txt --capture-image-and-download

[karlrees]

Phil- I have the A55 too. I thought I had researched it pretty thoroughly and determined that it wasn't possible to support it. For instance, it's not listed here: http://www.gphoto.org/proj/libgphoto2/support.php. How are you trying to connect it? I'd be happy to find out I was wrong, but I think it's just too old of a camera.

[philpugh51]

karlrees

I have come to the same conclusion and have given up the idea of using any of my three Sony cameras (A55, NEX-6 and NEX-7) for astrophotography !