Canon 40D - pictures not appearing in BYE 3.18 or downloading to PC

[g__day]

Hi Folks,

I just dusted of BYE 3.18 and 3.2 RC and tried my Canon 40D (IR modded) with a 100mm lens on a flower indoors.  Live view and planetary worked fine - I could see sharp images - and in Image mode I could command it do to 1/100 shutter or Bulb mode 1 or 2 second images - but simply no pictures appeared on the screen?

Been a while (2 years) since I used BYE every night - and thought I would love to try BYE again on a camera with a Canon lens (in MF mode) on top of my telescopes - so I thought I would set it all up indoors first.

Camera is powered from AC adapter into mains, has a 8GB CF card in it - is visible under Windows 10 and is connected by a standard cable direct to my PC.  One connect I simply say it is a Digic 3/4/5 camera - connects fine, runs plans - but no images appear on screen (and yes the lens cap is off)!

Any ideas folks -0 never seen this behaviour from BYE in the many years I have used it.

Best regards,

   Matthew

PS

Windows 10 automatically installed drivers for ths camera - camera appeared and I could see it and read the memory card under Windows Explorer.  Photo options - tried both save to PC and PC and Camera.

Then I downloaded EOS utility - it too could see liveview and take pictures which did appear on my computer.  BYE left no errors in the LOg file:

23:43:09  Licensed to Matthew
23:43:10  BackyardEOS 3.2.0 RC3
23:43:15  Attempting to connect camera...
23:43:15  Canon drivers 'Canon\' initialized.
23:43:17  40D CONNECTED!
23:43:20  Imaging session started.
23:43:26  Imaging session completed successfully
23:43:34  Imaging session started.
23:43:41  Imaging session completed successfully
23:44:53  Imaging session started.
23:44:59  Imaging session completed successfully

 

 

 

Edited May 10, 2020 by g__day
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[g__day]

Hmmm - just blew on lens gold contacts and re-inserted 75 - 300mm lens - it too is working fine now!  This lens has sat in the camera bag for over 20- years and had from memory never been used.  How weird is that!

Thanks for the help guys - over the many years using BYE never seen this behaviour before!

Any ideas what went wrong?

Regards,

   Matthew

 

[astroman133]

What is the Save To setting in the capture plan area?

Is your Anti-Virus software preventing the image from being stored?

Make sure advanced shooting features like exposure bracketing, LENR are disabled.

[admin]

The no image appearing on screen is odd for sure.

Can you confirm in your imaging plan you have the 'Save To' set to "PC" or ""PC + Camera" and not "Camera" exclusively.

 

[g__day]

Live view working - see attached.  Per screen shot - save is set to PC.  Virus scanner (Avast said it was white listed) - will double check by turn all shields off (and still image didn't appear

 

[g__day]

In advanced settings I don't see any lens bracketing option?  Been using BYE since V2.01 - but skipped the last 3 versions.  Camera is plugged into a USB2 port on the front of my main PC.

 

[g__day]

Just got out of BYE - into Canon EOS Utility - grabbed a 5 second frame easily first go!

[admin]

If you snap an image in frame&focus does it show in BYE?

[g__day]

5 minutes ago, admin said:

If you snap an image in frame&focus does it show in BYE?

Immediately - only image download is unfriendly for some strange reason.

[admin]

Close BYE and restart... to get a clean log file.

Then connect your camera and run an imaging run with a single image.

Send me that log file.

 

 

[g__day]

Maybe its this lens Canon 75 - 300mm lens that came with the original camera - as I just switcehed to a 35 - 80 mm lens and it worked first time.  Not sure why a lens swap affects image download function of the camera though?

[g__day]

By the way - I just checked the logs directory - it was empty - no log files whatsoever? (Using 3.2 RC3)

[admin]

I suspect maybe dust on one of the camera lens contact... perhaps one related to auto-focus. Just speculating.  Glad you got it to work