As a follow-​up to my attempts described here — that is use the Sony Remote Cam­era Con­trol (on a Mac) to take n pic­tures at spe­cified inter­vals — I finally came up with a (free) solu­tion!

The prob­lem was that the app seems to be so badly pro­grammed (for instance, there is the issue with the graph­ics) that it’s neither Applescript-​able nor UI-​scriptable. It doesn‘t even have a single key­board short­cut — why at least can‘t I take a pic­ture with the space key?? Any­way, so I had to resort to the Auto­mator with its new “Watch me do” func­tion­al­ity (plus a little bit of Applescript), and it finally works! Here is how you can profit from it too:

1. Down­load this archive
2. Put the two files into “/​Applications/​Sony Image Data Suite”
3. Con­nect your Alpha 700 (in Remote Con­nec­tion mode) and start the “Remote Cam­era Con­trol” App
4. Make all your pho­to­graphic set­tings and adjustments
5. Open “Inter­val Timer”
6. Run the script

Of course you’re wel­come to modify things, this is just a very ele­ment­ary, quick & dirty approach. If you have any sug­ges­tions for this, please let me know.

UPDATE: Used this tech­nique today (1 pic every 10s, 600 in total). Check it out on you­tube.

I was so drunk, I couldn’t even pee attention.