Comments on: Does the tethered Shooting script work for Canon, Olympus, Pentax, Sony, Panasonic etc etc

By: Randy

Randy — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:40:37 +0000

Raymond:

I have this running on two machines, one XP, and one Vista, with a Nikon D40. Both work great!

By: raymond

raymond — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 01:46:07 +0000

Stuart, glad someone is trying a different model! But sorry it looks like it might not work. Some thoughts:
- Have you installed the drivers that came with your camera?
- Can you see and control it via the Windows Camera & Scanner Wizard?
- Can you run the WIA testing tool? (Search this site for WIA Test to find it)
- Even though my script doesn’t think your camera can take new pictures (e.g. from the PC) you may still be able to take pictures using the camera shutter release and still have them downloaded.

By: Stuart

Stuart — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 01:39:21 +0000

Hi Raymond – what a great idea.

I’m trying with a Sony cybershot & have set it to PTP.

It appears in the scanners area fine but when I run the script and select it as my source camera, it pops up and says “This device does not support taking new pictures”. Any ideas on a work around mate?

Cheers
Stu
New Zealand

By: raymond

raymond — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:29:33 +0000

@nige, could you connect it as a “scanner” then run this WIA Connection test program I just posted about and let me have the output. That should give me an indication if it is possible or not.

By: nige

nige — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:29:59 +0000

yea, I wouldn’t mind helping out, let me know what I can do

By: raymond

raymond — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 04:00:04 +0000

nige, thanks for checking and sorry it didn’t work as expected. If the camera can act as “scanner” then that should be functioning as a WIA device. Perhaps it needs a driver installed on the PC. Let me know if you are interested in trying to troubleshoot this.

By: nige

nige — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:41:49 +0000

I’ve tried it on the Samsung GX10 unfortunately without success. The options under the USB are ‘scanner’ and ‘computer’. ‘scanner doesn’t work at all and ‘computer’ see the camera as a mass storage device – shame I was looking forward to using this great utility.

By: raymond

raymond — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 03:39:20 +0000

BobN, you need to change the USB mode. It’s one of the options in the Spanner / Wench menu — the choices are “Mass Storage” and “PTP”. You need PTP to show up as a camera. If you have Mass Storage set then it shows as a disk drive.

By: BobN

BobN — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 02:53:29 +0000

My Nikon D80 does not show up in My Computer under Scanners and Cameras – it is listed as a removable disk. I have Windows XP SP2

How do I get it to show up as a camera?