Someone suggested we tell it to let us find the drivers on the PC but again the word 'Legacy' does not appear at the end of any 1394 drivers the Win 10 machine can see. Anyone know how we can find the right drivers from either Sony or Microsoft or some other trusted source? Thanks for any help. Sony 1394 Firewire Cameras Sony now provides some online documents for their 1394 camera products and a 1394 WDM and TWAIN drivers for Windows 98, 2000, XP linked off the reference web site. Documents accumulated by contacting Jerry Fife, Sony 1394 Product Manager.

The current official release of the driver is 6.4.6, released on September 26, 2011 by Christopher R. Bakercbaker+iwan1394@cs.cmu.edu.

Sony Manufacturing 1394 Drivers

After more than a year of wrestling with the nuances of Microsoft's 64-bit operating systems, and with no small quantity of assistance from a few brave testers (you know who you are!), I am proud to officially release this next version of the CMU 1394 Digital Camera Driver, which includes:

• Support for all present 64-bit versions of Microsoft Windows XP, Vista and 7, allowing both native (64-bit) and emulated (32-bit) applications to access camera data via a single driver interface.
• A completely new demo application, written from the ground up to support both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows.
• A litany of bugfixes, many of which were contributed by individual users (for which I am grateful!), including:
• Squashment of the nefarious BSOD on resume-from-suspend bug
• A closer-to-correct implementation of the Serial I/O functionality described in the IIDC 1.31 standard (closer = still a little quirky, but the quirks may be in the camera I am testing with)
• Verified Strobe and Parallel I/O functionality (Strobe controls are also now integrated into the same dialog as Gain, Zoom, Focus, etc.)
• .. and many others
• New since the public beta:
  • Fully automated driver installation on 64-bit systems
  • Several minor bugfixes and documentation updates, but nothing that alters the API/ABI

Update: digital signatures for all kernel-mode software

All 64-bit versions of windows require a digital signature via an AuthentiCode certificate in order to run kernel-mode software. I would like to thank MathWorks for providing the funding for this certificate and allowing this driver set to continue to be published freely to the general public. MathWorks provides an adapter to the CMU 1394 Digital Camera driver as part of their Image Acquisition Toolkit to allow developers quick and easy access to images from firewire cameras within the MATLAB environment.

Known issues and limitations

• Large-block asynchronous transfers. I have received several requests and offerance of patches that restore the ability to issue large asychronous I/O (i.e., larger than a single quadlet/register) requests to cameras. I am evaluating these and trying to fold them into the driver in a manner that supports 64-bit platforms.
• Mysterious BSOD when using multiple 1394b cameras on the same bus under Windows 7. In experimenting with various configurations of cameras, 1394b host controllers, and driver settings, I have occasionally triggered inexplicable kernel panics while performing comparatively simple operations. Whether this is a quirk of the new Microsoft 1394 bus driver, of some particular host controller, of the 1394 camera driver's innards, or, most likely, of some combination thereof, remains to be seen. Using a single 1394b camera on a single bus is quite stable, however, and the circumstances where multiple cameras trigger this problem seem rare.
• The usual assortment of bugs and quirks. Much of the frame-handling logic had to be altered to accommodate the curious limitations of DMA transfers on 64-bit systems. Although I have been unit-testing this code to the greatest extent possible, my experience is that no new code is completely bug-free. My thanks go out to the many beta testers who have helped me to this point, and further comments/questions/bug reports/etc. are especially welcome on this front.

Sony 1394 Firewire Cameras

Sony now provides some online documents for their 1394 camera products and a 1394 WDM and TWAIN drivers for Windows 98, 2000, XP linked off the reference web site.

Documents accumulated by contacting Jerry Fife, Sony 1394 Product Manager.

DFW/XCD Cameras

Manuals

DFW-V500, DFW VL-500 Product Brochure(640x 480 Color w/o and with built-in zoom lens)

DFW-V500, DFW-VL500 Technical Manual (V1.0)

Shutter Table and Gamma Curves (prelim docs from Sony project manager)

Shutter Table (prelim docs from Sony project manager)

Sony Manufacturing 1394 Driver

XCD-SX900, XCD-X700 User’s Guide (V 1.0)

Shutter Table Spreadsheet (created by Towles)

DFW-SX900, DFW-SX700 Application Notes (Tentative)

Drivers

Sony 1394 WDM & TWAIN Drivers (DFW models)setup_030512.zip

Instructions for 1394 WDM & TWAIN drivers

We have also used Unibrain drivers with DirectShow (see Herman)

Sony PTZ Cameras, Sony Network Cameras

Sony Download Site

Firmware

Version 2.05 (Jul 31, 2003)

Utility Software

IP Setup Program 1.1.2 (Jul 31, 2003)

IP Setup Program 1.1.0

We also have the original version we received on CD

Manuals

SNC-RZ30 Product Brochure

SNC-RZ30N Installation Manual V2.0 (Nov 4, 2003)

SNC-RZ30N User’s Guide, V2.0 (Nov 4, 2003)

SNC-RZ30N CGI Command Manual, V2.0(11 Apr 2003)

This is the html command interface spec to the camera.

SNC-RZ30N Web Page Customization Document, V 1.0(12 Aug 2002)