I blogged about Stefan Hafenege before, he has developed a new version of his free tethering program. It’s specific to Mac and to particular Nikon DSLR models, but if that’s your combination then it looks like a great solution.
Read his description of the new version which is called Sofortbild on his blog, and download it from the Sofortbild Website.
Once again, well done to Stefan!
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Amazing DIY solution to wireless thethering is described here, with much discussion here.
Particularly interesting is that this is doing standard USB so it matters not what type of camera, software, computer etc you are using.
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February 21st, 2009 · 1 Comment
Stefan Hafeneger, has built a Nikon specific camera control app for macs which is now beta and freely available. He is using the Nikon SDK as well so should be able to implement much more Nikon specific controls than I am able to via WIA on Windows in my script.
Apparently he is able to understand the SDK as well - which means not only can he program better than I but his English/Japanese parsing skill is much higher than mine as well and I salute him!
[via dptnt]
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February 20th, 2009 · 4 Comments
Sorry, being a total geek here.
If you are also a command line geek you will look at the above and go Ahhhh…
Otherwise, it means nothing and you can skip over this post. :-)
For the rest of you — the above “converts” NEF files into JPG faster than anything you have ever seen before.
And is great for converting 250 NEF files you snapped of something totally unimportant that should have been shot in jpg and not raw.
This is a preview of for /f “tokens=*” %x in (’dir /b *.nef’) do dcraw -e %x
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February 18th, 2009 · 3 Comments
Visit http://www.photoremote.de if you can underderstand German to read about another WIA based remote control software, targetting Nikon specifically.
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February 10th, 2009 · 5 Comments
No? Me neither.
I wish I did though as this past weekend I lost my SB-800! I’ve been going around since then cursing my carelessness! Arggg!!!
Lets just say that when leaping hurriedly into and out of a taxi in the dark while holding a toddler in one hand and a camera bag in the other hand it is wise to make sure that the bag is fully and securely closed!
The little carrying case I had the flash in was also stuffed with little DIY items which I’ll have to remake such as the folding grid spot and the sticky IR filter as well as all the gels I’ll have to re-cut.
This is a preview of Any ideas on how to DIY an equivalent to an SB-800?
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February 5th, 2009 · 1 Comment
A quick thank you from me to all of those of you who have blogged about, or posted in forums about, or told friends about this site and the Camera Control script.
It’s great to have your recommendation - even with caveats!
Please keep it up!
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February 4th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Here is a great invention by Joergen Geerds, a hardware based platform for doing exposure bracketing. Just when I released a software approach targetted at Nikon cameras Joergen releases a hardware approach targetting Canon!
Actually I suspect that both ways will work with both Canon and Nikon, but that is untested. Where as I’m using USB and WIA and PTP to control the camera from Windows Joergen is using a microcontroller and a cable release to the camera which is in Bulb mode to do variable length exposures.
This is a preview of Bracketmeister: Hardware exposure bracketing from Joergen Geerds
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February 4th, 2009 · 5 Comments
What is the lowest spec PC/Laptop that Camera Control will work on? I don’t know — I have a Thinkpad X31 running XP SP2 and it is ok though you can see a little sloweness at times.
Would it work on lower end, either old machine or one of the new light netbooks? Let me know!
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It is here, it is basic, but it works (somewhat) — Bracketing. Once again I find myself either spending an hour I have available to work on the code, or publishing what I already have working, limited though it may be.
So here we have 4.0 - the Basic Bracketing version.
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Expect bugs — that’s why the version is a .0 one! However it should do you for some basic HDR or timelapse uses.
Update:
- Only works in P, A or S modes as the bracketing is controlled by adjusting the exposure compensation. I’ll do M mode support later.
This is a preview of DIYPhotobits.Com Camera Control 4.0 - Basic Bracketing
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