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• 2 Brian // Nov 29, 2008 at 6:13 am

  I Just installed. Happy that worked for D80, but then when come back reload app. with page scripts error. I try shut down, disconect cam and then on anf off, not steady. Did I do something wrong. BTW i am using Vista.
  Thank you for your efford to provide us this SW

• 3 MattN // Nov 29, 2008 at 9:15 am

  Sounds like this will become and interesting project – looking forward to what you can come up with for shutter control!

  I downloaded the .msi file but am having difficulties getting it to work with my D60.

  When opening the file, Windows Installer runs and gives me the error message “This installation package could not be opened. Contact the application vendor to verify that this is a valid Windows Installer package.”

  I realize the scripts haven’t been working on some vista systems, but was just wondering if I’m doing something wrong?

  Thanks for the hard work!

• 4 Daniel L // Nov 29, 2008 at 12:31 pm

  Can’t get it to work for my Nikon D50.

  After setting the camera to PTP, turning the camera off, pluging in the USB, turning on the camera, and running Camera Control 2.1, I keep getting the error message: “No cameras detected”.

  I’ve tried all three versions of the script/program and I can’t seem to get any of them to work. I’m using a Nikon D50 and Windows XP. I installed the drivers for the D50 from Nikon’s site, but the camera won’t show up in Windows Explorer as a camera. It shows up as a drive fine in “Mass Storage” Mode. Any thoughts?

  Thanks for writing the script. I really hope I can get it to work.

• 5 Arto // Nov 29, 2008 at 8:10 pm

  hi. Does not work with my D200. All I get is ” This device does not support teking new pictures”.
  Anhy ideas ? Is it in the computer or camera ? Usb in the camera is set to PTP.

• 6 Franklin // Nov 29, 2008 at 8:42 pm

  should I uninstal the “embarassment” version I have and install this one?

• 7 Jonathan Knights // Nov 29, 2008 at 8:53 pm

  Hi
  Are you willing to publish the source code so the code can be enhanced ?

  Thanks
  JK

• 8 raymond // Dec 1, 2008 at 3:24 am

  @Brian, that’s strange that it should work once and not again — I mean if it works it should work! Maybe reinstall?

  @MattN, seems you have a corrupt or truncated download — try clearing your browser cache and downloading again. The file should be 200K long.

  @Daniel L, is it recognised by in Windows Explorer as a camera? If not then it’s a Windows problem — I’d suggest to try those Nikon drivers again and don’t forget to look in the Device Manager to see if the device has a warning on it.

  @Arto, perhaps the drivers. Have you installed the software that came with your Nikon camera? There are drivers somewhere in there. Can you take pictures using the button in the Windows camera Wizard?

  @Franklin, I think it’s safer to have only copy installed at a time. So yes, remove the old first.

  @Jonathan Knights, it’s a script so the program *is* the source.

• 9 Arto // Dec 1, 2008 at 8:20 am

  Thanks again Raymond. I installed the drivers for D200, which i hadn’t done at all and now it almost works. The preview feature doesn’ t work at all and at start it comments that “this device does not support taking new pictures”, but now i can take pictures and they will be transfered instantly to my folder. Then i use bridge to wacth them. This is enough for my purposes, for now. I rest my case with great appreciation.

• 10 MattN // Dec 1, 2008 at 9:21 am

  Thanks Raymond… my net browsers must not have been properly downloading the file (used a torrent sharer instead). Just did a few test shots and seems to be working pretty good with vista and a D60 . I did however get a script error when I went to change the shutter speed for the second time.

• 11 Mehran // Dec 1, 2008 at 10:48 pm

  BIG THANK YOU to Raymond @ DIYPhotobits.com Camera Control for such a simple and user friendly programe.
  Tested with vista and XP working pretty good Camera======= Nikon D300.
  UK

• 12 dhinand kleine // Dec 2, 2008 at 8:44 am

  Great idea,

  Will it work on a fuji S5, which is a D200 in disquise?

• 13 Mike // Dec 2, 2008 at 4:48 pm

  It works on both my D70 and also my D60 on a laptop running XP.

  Thanks for creating this.

• 14 Mehran // Dec 2, 2008 at 4:59 pm

  Raymond HELP, I wish that I could use my Live View on my Nikon D300 on this program any Ideas thanks.

  UK

• 15 iaingunther // Dec 2, 2008 at 8:42 pm

  Works a dream! Thanks. I have XP3, CS2 and a D300. As CS2 wont recognise D300 NEF files I have to convert to DNG. In Bridge the NEF file is the size of a postage stamp but the DNG file is big. I dont want to shoot RAW+JPG but for this exercise I probably should as the thumbnail of the NEF is smaller than the back of the camera! If you could write a scipt to automatically convert NEF to DNG and run it every 30 seconds that would then be great. Once again, thanks.

• 16 raymond // Dec 3, 2008 at 1:58 am

  @Arto, ok that’s better. Still want to find out why the camera doesn’t support remote shutter release though.

  @MattN, progress! I’ll look at that shutter speed thing — if you can tell me the line number of the error it would help.

  @Mehran, great it works for you! Don’t forget to tell your friends. Live Liew I don’t have any ideas on at the moment I’m afraid. It must be possible as Nikon CameraControl Pro 2 can do it — but then it *is* the PRO software while mine is the freebie so…

  @dhinand kleine, I would think so — but I don’t know how good the disguise is! Please let me know if you try it.

  @Mike, great!

  @iaingunther, so the script is downloading the NEF OK but you can’t see them because you an’t view D300 NEFs in Bridge. Hm. So we need to use Adobe DNG converter to turn the D300 NEF into a DNG. Ok this looks like a job for the feature I want to do whereby every image downloaded gets passed off to a user specified processing program; I was thinkin droplets to do things like watermark but you would want to pass to the DNG converter. So… It’s a todo, sorry, I’ll get to it eventually!….

• 17 Jan // Dec 3, 2008 at 2:59 am

  I learned about your program from the Lightroom Killer Tips blog. I installed it and it works great.

  I’m using it with a D200, Lightroom 2.1 and XP.

  Lightroom needs an empty folder to watch, so I created a folder inside My Pictures. I tried to modify your script to default to that folder so I wouldn’t have to change it each time I start DIYPhotobits.com Camera Control, but wasn’t successful (couldn’t figure out which variable to change). A very minor thing.

  Thanks for a great program

• 18 dhinand kleine // Dec 4, 2008 at 9:20 am

  Hey raymond, I would get back to you to tell if it works on a Fuji S5 (which is a D200) Your software does recognize my camera, but i get constant script errors on al my actions. Also you can not set PTP in a fuji. It has two options for shooting into a pc. that is Automate en Fixed. Tried both, does not work. Is it a problem that i use Windows XP 64 bits?

  Dhinand

• 19 osman // Dec 4, 2008 at 6:18 pm

  to all—-This is what i found out with the program. Once all are set up in the computer, there are steps to follow for the program to work.

  1. Connect the camera to the computer. The camera had to be turned on first.
  2. turn the diyphotobits program.
  a. it should show your camera type
  b. the folder location where the photos will be saved to.

  if the you unplugged or turned off the camera, then you have to do the whole process once again for it to work.

  To raymond–What i did notice is that when I do run the program it does pop up “The device does not support taking picture” yet it still do work.
  And viewing size does not work to well as well.

  Any idea why it does that?

  Picture viewing solution i found is to bridge it with Photoshop element 7.0 via the import option. Just maximize the screen for a bigger view. Works great.

• 20 raymond // Dec 5, 2008 at 9:39 am

  @Jan, glad it’s working for you! I need to make it save the most recently used folder name in a registry key somewhere and reuse it when it loads again.

  @dhinand kleine, that’s a pity it doesn’t work — but given that it is nearly maybe there is hope. Win 64bit reduces the chances though as WIAAUT officially does not support Win64bit. If you are interested in persuing this please run the WIA Test tool and let me have the output.

  @osman, thanks for that — I really need to do a video tutorial to show more ways it can be used. What camera are you using? Have you loaded the Nikon drivers? Old drives may be the cause of the script not realizing that the camera can take pictures programatically.

• 21 osman // Dec 5, 2008 at 2:35 pm

  I am using a Nikon D8O….I will try that out. It does work though despite that pop up warning in the beginning. thnx

• 22 DHINAND // Dec 5, 2008 at 3:31 pm

  hey raymond, i did not run the WIA test tool, but my plan is to use it on my laptop which has XP and that runs like a charm.

  Not all the controls work though but i am happy with this.

  Thanks a bunch

• 23 Jim in Atlanta // Dec 5, 2008 at 5:35 pm

  Thanks for this little script! It works fine on my D200 and a Windows XP Pro machine. Very nimble — just the features I need for some simple, direct-to-computer photography.

• 24 Jon S // Dec 7, 2008 at 8:51 pm

  Hi,
  I’m having trouble getting this to work with my D50. When I plug in the D50 windows doesn’t recognise it as a camera (in PTP mode). There is talk of “drivers” in some of the comments above. Where do these come from? I’ve tried searching the Nikon site and using Google but no useful results come up.
  Cheers,
  jon

• 25 Daniel L // Dec 7, 2008 at 10:13 pm

  @ Jon S
  You can download the drivers for the D50 here: http://support.nikontech.com/cgi-bin/nikonusa.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=4611#folder_structure
  However, I was not able to get my D50 to work using them. For some reason Windows XP still won’t recognize my camera. =-/ Best of luck.

  Daniel

• 26 Jon S // Dec 8, 2008 at 12:16 pm

  @Daniel S
  Thanks for the link. I tried plugging the D50 into another PC with XP on and it worked no problem. I’m trying to get it to work on my Asus EEE so I can have a very portable tethered setup. When i installed XP on the EEE it was a cut-down version (“n-lited” I think the term is) so I’m guessing there’s something missing to allow XP to recognise the D50 as a camera. Annoyingly the EEE will recognise the built-in webcam without a problem! Any more thoughts anyone?
  Cheers,
  jon

• 27 Kevin // Dec 8, 2008 at 4:27 pm

  This is very cool. I stumbled upon this application semi-accidentally. I got it to run on a Vista laptop and a D80 with little to no issues after a bit of fiddling.

  The one feature I think would be a huge bonus is a shutter release timer for time lapse photography.

  That and I’ll echo a previous statement and say open source this if its a possibility.

  Otherwise very well done.

• 28 Paul // Dec 8, 2008 at 4:56 pm

  Fan-bloody-tastic!

  Installed and it works – you sir are magnificent!

• 29 Max // Dec 9, 2008 at 3:47 am

  Hi.

  I installed it on Windows Vista Home Premium. It seems to be able to find my D200. However it says the device does not support taking new pictures when I select it.

  I was able to start the tether and click the shutter release. The shutter on the camera does fire but then the whole program freezes.

  Max

• 30 trev // Dec 9, 2008 at 4:44 am

  Works great
  OS: XP professional service pack 3
  Nikon D50

  one slight problem

  When I push the button on the camera to take a picture it sends the file to the computer but the size of the preview is small. I have changed the preview size but it does not give me a larger image. I want to be able to take a picture using the camera and see it on the computer

• 31 John Laferty // Dec 9, 2008 at 12:43 pm

  Raymond – just installed on my studio laptop running XP Pro – works just fine with my D200. Thatk-you for taking the time & effort to write this software. You have helped thousands of fellow photogs out!!

• 32 Steve P // Dec 12, 2008 at 3:29 am

  This is BRILLIANT!! Installed in a snap and works as advertised with my D200 and XP Dell 820. I only need to tether once a year for a photo-with-Santa fundraiser. Last year I used a Bibble trial, but the thought of paying 150+ for once a year on top of donating my time and equipment was not ideal. Why my 2500 in legally licensed Adobe CS3 software can’t manage to include tethered shooting is beyond me.

  This did the trick. Thanks!!

• 33 Francis // Dec 12, 2008 at 5:07 pm

  I installed the drivers for my D50, but my computer does not recognize my camera as a camera, but rather as a USB Mass Storage Device. How do I fix this?

• 34 Ole Schoola // Dec 13, 2008 at 2:11 am

  All was going fine until clicking on the shutter release button. The Nikon D70s autofocus will cycle but CC2 stops responding immediately.

  Windows Vista64 resource monitor shows mshta.exe chewing up 30% load average for both cores and svchost.exe(imgsvc) chomping on about the same. I wasn’t able to attribute any disk thrashing other than Vista’s random little romps through the b-tree.

  Setting speed/stop/WB with CC2 works. The upper LCD on the camera momentarily winks and any change in CC2 is reflected in the camera. All is well until clicking on the release.

  I *was* doing a Snoopy dance until hitting this rough spot. Now I’m sad. Any ideas?

• 35 Ole Schoola // Dec 13, 2008 at 2:31 am

  Oh yeah. Nikons (and others I presume) will only cycle the AF if you /leave the lens cap on/.

  Clicking the shutter release button does, indeed, release the shutter on my camera.

  The not responding and consuming resources part hasn’t changed.

• 36 John K // Dec 16, 2008 at 8:32 am

  Absolutely amazing bit of software – Hooked it up to my Nikon D40x and it just worked. OK – so a couple of the controls don’t quite behave as expected, but it’ll take a picture from the computer, display it as soon as it’s taken, and that’s what I was looking for.

  Good job, and I really can’t complain for the price!

• 37 John K // Dec 17, 2008 at 2:20 am

  BYW – above comment applies to XP – I’ve had problems getting it to run on Vista.

• 38 John K // Dec 24, 2008 at 4:24 pm

  … and it turned out that my Vista issues were another misbehaving USB device interfering with the communication to the camera. All now working.

• 39 DaveB // Dec 28, 2008 at 10:06 pm

  Searched around the net for prices of controlling software and found your site.
  Tried out the software with my old D2X and D3. It worked first time on a laptop running with vista OS and Lightroom 2. I’m shooting mainly from the camera in tethered mode with very little trouble
  Great Software.
  Look forward to your next project

• 40 Jonathan Knights // Dec 29, 2008 at 5:58 pm

  Hi,
  Well done. I can confirm that this program works for the follwoing DSLRs Nikon D70, D70S, D200 (does not download NEF but JPG only), D2X, D300, D700, D3.

  Is there a way to keep the download directory to a particular location of my choice. e.g. INI file or conf file for the script with this so I can change and not have to browse each time.

  Thanks
  Jonathan

• 41 Edward Pawlak // Dec 31, 2008 at 2:29 am

  Hi – Fantastic! I have it running on a laptop XP3, and have used it with my D40, D200 and D300. I have it connected with a self powered 5metre USB extension cable. Only issue was that it stopped working with my D200. I think it may have been due to the connection coming loose in the camera. A bit of a jiggle, re-connect and it works great. Thank you for a smart little piece of software!

• 42 Edward Pawlak // Dec 31, 2008 at 2:32 am

  Oops forgot! I run it to download to a “watchme” folder and then use Lightroom 2.2 to copy this to a proper named folder and display it in the Develop module of Lightroom. This way I can “tweak” adjustments in front of the model and show her how “magical” the whole process is!

• 43 raymond // Jan 3, 2009 at 1:59 am

  @DaveB, glad it works and thanks for the info on your configuration.

  @Jonathan Knights, the new version 3.0 fixes the problem of the download directory. Strange about the D200.

  @Edward Pawlak, thanks for the good words!

• 44 henry selesa // Jan 14, 2009 at 2:17 am

  Raymond, I think this is great but I can’t get my Nikon D200 to fire. It says “PC” on the camera’s top LCD and a “marching ants” line running from left to right of the top LCD screen.
  Although it says “D200″ on MY Computer” the software says no camera selected-or something like that. I relly love to see what I can do with this software. Thanks

• 45 raymond // Jan 16, 2009 at 8:16 am

  I’m not sure what the problem might be Henry. Is your D200 upgraded to the latest firmware? I did remember reading that the original D200 might not have worked so well with PC connections.

• 46 henry selesa // Jan 19, 2009 at 7:00 am

  Hi Raymond. Thanks for the response. I got it running by changing in-camera from Mass Storage to PTP. Great work you did there. BTW is there a way to change orientation of pictures in my laptop from portrait to landscape format? I don’t know how to do it. I can do it from the saved file in a separate folder but would like to change orientation in after a shot. Now, if I shoot in portrait mode, the picture will appear in landscape mode on my laptop. Is there an auto orientate function somewhere? As it is it is already great. Thanks

• 47 raymond // Jan 19, 2009 at 9:28 am

  Henry, I see what you mean about the orientation. I don’t know to be honest, I’ll have a think about it though.

• 48 Sam Gay // Jan 23, 2009 at 4:16 pm

  All I get is “NO CAMERA DETECTED”. Explorer shows Nikon D200/DCIM. Using Win XP. Any help appreciated.

  Sam Gay

• 49 Sam Gay // Jan 23, 2009 at 7:04 pm

  I managed to get the software working, But one shot and the computer locks up. HELP

• 50 raymond // Jan 24, 2009 at 6:47 am

  Sam, does it lock up if you just use the Shutter Release button but without downloading? To what folder are you trying to download? RAW or JPG? It seems a lock-after-one-shot may be related to it failing to save the file.

• 51 Sam Gay // Jan 24, 2009 at 2:43 pm

  Raymond,
  Thanks for the prompt response. It does not lockup without downloading. Tried downloading both jpg & nef, didn’t seem to make any difference. I was downloading the files to unique folder under SAM’S FILES

• 52 Sam Gay // Jan 24, 2009 at 2:44 pm

  By the way I’m using ver 3.1

• 53 raymond // Feb 3, 2009 at 2:20 pm

  Sam, try downloading to C:\tethered and see if that makes a difference.

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• 57 Derrick Young // Sep 5, 2009 at 3:27 am

  Not sure if anyone has tried this, and thought I would ask before burning to many cycles doing the impossible.

  I have an intel based Macbook Pro that I run XP Sp3 using VMWARE Fusion under OSx 10.5.7

  Any idea if this will work?

• 58 Frank // Oct 1, 2009 at 7:27 pm

  I also got problems with the size of the preview (XP, D8O), it doesn’t change size and stays at 150 PX.

  Rev hast the same problem, but nobody answered his question as far as I know:

  ———

  rev // Dec 9, 2008 at 4:44 am

  Works great
  OS: XP professional service pack 3
  Nikon D50

  one slight problem

  When I push the button on the camera to take a picture it sends the file to the computer but the size of the preview is small. I have changed the preview size but it does not give me a larger image. I want to be able to take a picture using the camera and see it on the computer

• 59 raymond // Oct 2, 2009 at 9:49 am

  Frank, sorry to say I can’t yet imagine what could cause this problem! I’ll think about it though.

• 60 Frank // Oct 2, 2009 at 10:11 am

  Hi Raymond,

  I find it myself:

  The preview size was hardcoded:

  Else
  previewImg.innerHTML = “

  I changed the width 300 to:

  ” +

  ddPreviewSize.value + ”

  ——–

  Else
  previewImg.innerHTML = “ ”

  ——–

  That’s it. And now everything works fine.

  Thanks for your great software.

  Frank

• 61 Frank // Oct 2, 2009 at 10:13 am

  Oh, I see “no code allowed”, so just search for “width” find the 300 and change it to:

  ” + ddPreviewSize.value + ”

• 62 raymond // Oct 9, 2009 at 7:30 am

  Frank, thanks so much! I feel so stupid. I’ll fix that in future downloads.

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