Technical deep dives, engineering challenges, and the science behind eclipse photography.
Connecting Canon and Nikon cameras simultaneously on macOS hits a fundamental platform limitation: ptpcamerad claims exclusive USB access to all PTP cameras. Here's what we tried, what failed, and the workaround that works.
Sony's Camera Remote SDK doesn't support older models like the ZV-E10 or A7 III, so we built a second bridge using Windows Portable Devices MTP extensions. Getting COM interop working on .NET 8 with trimming required multiple rewrites — and Sony testing exposed DeviceBusy retry gaps across every vendor.
A deep dive into 9 distinct failure modes — from wrong binary formats to ARM64 Pointer Authentication crashes — and how I replaced the proprietary SDK with libgphoto2.
From Besselian elements to sub-second timing — the math and algorithms behind every prediction, including Newton-Raphson iteration, WGS84 oblate Earth, and lunar limb corrections.
Three eclipses, two automation tools, and one persistent question: what if capture software could disappear on eclipse day? The origin story of eclipseClick.