All, thanks for the replies. In resume, I am standing on the following situation:
- Further Yair advise, yesterday night I installed a FireWire 400 PCI card from LaCie on my Graphic Station HPZ400 (quadro Pro, 20GB RAM, latest NVidia card,..). The card is powered from the PC Power slot and not the PCI slot. Tried everything and again C1 does not recognize the Camera (meaning Body AFI) right away. I found out that the best results are when I follow the following sequence: start PC, Start C1 new Tethered session and then connect the Firewire cable (400/800) to the AFI7II.
- To reply to Eric: no, once the back and the PC are talking tom each others it is going flawless and very fast. I will say that it takes approx. 10s to upload the picture. I will have a session tonight and will measure it. Your 30s seems in line if we assume that the uploading time is proportional to the number of pixel.
- Based on last advise from Eric, I tried to use the IMac of my wife to upgrade the firware of my back. I downloaded and installed LCC last version: no way to have the back camera recognise. May be it is because I use an adapter for the FireWire Cable. Will try to get a 800/800 cable today.
- LLC cannot be installed on PC running on Windows 7
- I have been thinking a lot to make an adaptation on the hand grip of the AFI in order to be able to connect the camera directly to a Quantum Battery. See attached pdf (sorry for bad sketch). Main idea is to be able to shoot without any limitation of time on location and still have the FireWire plug available to connect a PC/Mac/Lapetop.
http://jeanlucco.smugmug.com/Electronics/AFD50mm/16126578_KksEu#1425790151_kM3DrD4-A-LB