Automatic focus and shutter detection via a Sony multi-port cable (not USB). More details at: http://www.3dphoto.net/forum/index.php/topic,11976.msg71729.html
Thanks! That took some work on this image since the plane had a long pitot tube on the nose cone that stuck out causing a big WV. Cutting that off took some effort to rebuild the background (the nose wheel of the small white aircraft in the back).
I have a number of cameras in this condition. Only I didn't need to buy one for that purpose. I just canibalized a couple of broken ones to fix other broken ones.
I have taken a series of off axis shots of this, but have not yet been able to combine them into a realistic composite with stairs going up down and sideways.