Comments on: Nikon Control Beta 1

By: Tim

Tim — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 02:11:40 +0000

Thank you SOOOOO much for this. I would love to pay you a small fee for this. It is wonderful. I have been looking for a way to tether and interval shoot without paying nikon 200 dollars. I will link to your project from my blog.

By: Francisco

Francisco — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:48:06 +0000

Great product – well done in taking the trouble to write it and then sharing it with your photo community. I have connected up my D700 and it worked fine in taking picture via the camera icon on screen and displaying settings as I changed them.

Can you tell me Stefan whether you intend to implement Live View for the D700 as that would be the icing on the cake!

By: fLUO!

fLUO! — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:05:41 +0000

That is very cool. Thanks to the creator of this app, you’re great!! Your work is appreciated, please keep improving it!

By: Craig

Craig — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 07:00:40 +0000

Thanks Chris

I just downloaded this remote control and it is working for my D40.
I thought I would give it a try all works ok but there is a time lapse bracketing section what is this used for?

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 02:34:06 +0000

I love this. I’m looking forward to what will be coming in it.

I hooked my D300 up to my MacBook and once I read the readme it was working instantly.

This just eliminated one area of software I was looking into at least for the interim.

My first feature request would be to be able to set a filename sequence and location.

By: robot

robot — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:44:25 +0000

Works perfectly on a D300

By: Will

Will — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:34:31 +0000

There’s also this one from DIYPhotoBits.com – http://www.diyphotobits.com/download-diyphotobitscom-camera-control/

It’s designed to run on Windows only as it’s built on top of Windows WIA (Windows Image Acquisition), which comes with windows.

By: [NR] admin

[NR] admin — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:08:28 +0000

Yes, this was exactly the point I was trying to male with post.

By: Steve Thompson

Steve Thompson — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:32:01 +0000

I think some of you are missing the point. Yes, the SDK has been out for awhile, but it really hasn’t been exploited. This application does offer some functionality that may be useful to some, but more importantly, it demonstrates the possibilities for Nikon users that may have been previously only thought to be available via Canon’s SDK.

Kudos for this. Independent developers working on Nikon apps is an exciting thing.

By: kengz

kengz — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:37:59 +0000

I works on my D90,

By: Pablov

Pablov — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:08:41 +0000

Very Good information.
Thanks!

By: David

David — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:43:45 +0000

Camera control pro 2 works..it is a full studio suite ..the program here is not in the same class — from my trial it is totally useless
If you need control from the computer buy Camera control pro 2 , if you just want to play a little use this.
How does it go – you get what you pay for

By: Stefan

Stefan — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:12:24 +0000

Yes thanks for the hint. The D90 does not have a switch for that.

By: JasonH

JasonH — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:08:03 +0000

I thought I had manually dragged the files to the right folder (I already had a nikon folder in app support) but this morning I discovered that I must have seen “control” in the Picture Control Utility folder and mistook that for the right one. Once I created the Camera Control folder and moved the files it works fine. Great effort!

The only other thing you might want to put in the readme is that for users like me who have USB set to Mass Storage, you have to switch it to MTP/PTP for it to work (at least on my D300).

By: [NR] admin

[NR] admin — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:49:30 +0000

This one is free

By: [NR] admin

[NR] admin — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:47:35 +0000

This one is free?

By: [NR] admin

[NR] admin — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:46:04 +0000

You have to copy the library folder manually.
See the readme file.

By: Stefan

Stefan — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:30:44 +0000

Hi,

For those of you who you say the app crashes on launch:

Did you copy the files from the Nikon folder (it contains the camera driver)? If you don’t copy the files to the right directory the application will crash on launch. Unfortunately Nikon wrote the SDK in a way that the files have to be in this directory, so I can’t put them into the application bundle.

- Stefan

By: Daf

Daf — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:31:04 +0000

Nikon SDK has always been available – just a matter of asking/looking for it.
Existed way before the D700 came along.

By: SmokeJaguar

SmokeJaguar — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:10:37 +0000

Works fine and no crashes on my MacBook Pro, did you ppl read the “readme”?
Pictures are saved to your “Pictures” folder on yer Mac.