Comments on: D300 – Tethered as well

By: John

John — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:35:45 +0000

I agree, the D300 is a heavy camera especially after adding the MBD10 external drive/grip. Now I know why the minimalist/strobist lighting approach has become so popular. Almost need a cart for the camera alone!

Thanks for the tethered download tool its just perfect. More features than I would have added had I written the code myself. Not in the way…just extra “nice-to-have”.

By: raymond

raymond — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:14:49 +0000

Well I don’t sleep with it — but I know what you mean. I’m still right that it is far “too much” camera for me, but I’ve resisted getting too involved with lots of fiddly detail.

By: gene

gene — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 05:16:48 +0000

Well Raymond;
You’ve had that 300 for a while now. Are you totally emotionally dependent on it yet. I was after just handling it out of the box. It’s more camera than I deserve and I feel a little guilty even having it naaa.. not really.
Having used nikons camera control in the past I find the f/stops, shutter speed and imediate viewing to be the necessities. After that the rest are luxuries but appreciated a bunch.
Of course the more control the more satisfaction.

gene

By: raymond

raymond — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 07:12:07 +0000

Glad to help Tom. Is RAW working for you on Vista? It doesn’t for some people but does for others.

I’ll actually be looking at introducing some “control” function, not just the downloading, but I’m not sure which ones are more useful to whom yet.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 03:23:22 +0000

THANK YOU for the tethered shooting script! It works as advertised on a Windows Vista Ultimate PC connected to my D300. It’s simple and does the job I needed it to do, which was to provide feedback right away on an LCD monitor. I’m installing it next on my laptop to go with me on shoots. You’ve saved me $160 over Nikon’s Camera Control software, since my main use was to get the image quickly to a laptop, not to control the camera from the laptop.

- Tom