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Backyard EOS, Planetary Mode, and Crop Movie Mode


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Hi there,

I have a Canon 60Da and was wondering - when I put Backyard EOS into Planetary video mode - will it automatically set my Canon 60Da to the Crop Movie Mode or do I have to do that manually in the camera menu?

Thanks a bunch,

Paul

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Paul,

 

BYE does not use the camera's Crop Movie mode. Canon does not provide access to the movie mode functionality from the SDK that BYE uses.

 

Instead BYE captures LiveView images and assembles them into an AVI file. For planetary imaging you should also use the 5X zoom mode since the images are then at the full resolution of the sensor.  This has been discussed in numerous other threads.

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The Crop Movie Mode was only a Feature available on 3 Models - T2i, 60D, and your 60Da - and Canon NEVER Provided SDK Access.  Nor did they say much about that Mode in the Canon Manual.

 

You CAN, however, use BYE to get all the Framing and Focus and Exposure setup.  

AND THEN...  Flip the Camera into Crop Video Mode and capture yourself a few minutes of 60fps 640x480 Files.

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Or... use 5x zoom for all planetary recording; this will yield a 1 to 1 pixel resolution, meaning 1 pixel on the sensor ends up to be 1 pixel on your image... this is the best quality/resolution your can get.

 

Regards,

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You just need to click the "Start Recording" button in planetary in the lower right corner.  You set the number of frames you want and the recording will take that many frames.

 

As Rick said, this is all documented in the user guide as well.

 

Regards,

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