As a Project get startet, there are always changes.

But first I found a few difficulties which bugged me a bit:

- Second Atmega Board is unneccesary, all con be handled by the 7x5 LED Matrix with Atmega328

- The camera doesn't work as i imagined with Win7 there is no remote shooting function for Canon 400d. I have to try it with Win Xp or try reinstall. If that doesnt work, there are more solutions ;)

- Perhapps its neccessary to monitor the camera activity... can't be sure that a picture is taken in time?

- Like Goethe said: "I need more light" .. I have to check out if 2 Softboxes with Daylight Lightbulps supply enough Light for my purposes.

So my current Setup looks like this:

Okay, looks a bit like bricolage ... on the plus side: It works as imagined, i dont have to rework the plug twice a day.

On the minus side the Remote Shutter Plug looks really bad, the connector block didn't match the 2,54mm grid, the optocoupler was a bit big...

this is how the front looks if you take a picture of the active LEDs ("3") with Flash on and minimal brightness. I promise a better Picture next time.

Next Steps:

- Check if remote shooting works with Win Xp

- Think about a nice enclosure (VERY hard task... :-()

- Implement SW to get Informations form the 7x5 Panel and show the shoot Images (Optionally print them out) (VB Excel Macro)

- Try to figure out when the camera really shoots.

- Read some more on ETTL :-) http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6404987.pdf and http://billgrundmann.wordpress.com/

- At wurst käs i would need to add some external flashes and monitor if they fired.

- The Background could be Illuminated by a RGB flood light?

- Add some other funky features... (Eyecatchers on the 7x5 Display, ...)

Comments and tips are highly appreciated ;-)