A5100 under Astroberry tips

Some tips to quick start.

Camera Settings Tab:

1:

Shoot Mode: Manual Exposure

Quality: RAW

2:

Drive mode: BRK C 0.3EV 3 ( Cont. Bracket 0.3EV 3 Image)

5:

DRO/Auto HDR: Off 

6:

High ISO NR: low ( Actually dimmed/ not selectable)

8:

Auto Slow Shut.: Off

Setup Tab:

3:

USB connection: PC Remote

USB LUN Setting: Multi

Sony cameras are picky on USB cable.  Camera will display always " Connecting... USB", no matter which type of USB cable is connected!!!, But not all USB cables work

Astroberry

INDI:

Presets: 1/10 ( or any value less than 1) (indi-3rdparty, indi-gphoto, gphoto-driver.cpp)

wait until Expose Indicator turns to  yellow. 

minimize control panel.

use EKOS as usual. 

note:

You cannot set the shutter speed to [BULB] in the following situations:

When the [Smile Shutter] function is activated.

When the [Auto HDR] function is activated.

When [Picture Effect] is set to [HDR Painting] or [Rich-tone Mono.].

When the [Multi Frame NR] function is activated.

When the [Drive Mode] function is set to [Cont. Shooting], [Spd Priority Cont.] or [Self-timer Cont.]