Comments on: Tethering unplugged

By: Patrick L

Patrick L — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:26:26 +0000

I may just do that? I’m going to look around a bit more first. If I do decide to try it I’ll let you know, either way.

trick

By: raymond

raymond — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:11:33 +0000

Patrick, I have yet to see a point-and-shoot which works. But there is a first time for everything. Why don’t you try it and let us know?

By: Patrick L

Patrick L — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:08:14 +0000

PS. Connecting to a Dell Lap top or Desktop running XP pro. or Vista Ultimate. P.L.

By: Patrick L

Patrick L — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:02:10 +0000

I have an old Nikon E 950 that only works with a serial cable. It’s broken at the moment anyway. Anyway My question is this. Does this software work with or can it be modified to work with a Pentax Optio W 80? Via USB2. I know it’s kid stuff compared to the others, but I don’t have the cash for the big guns any more. my last real Nikon was an F3 35 mm. This tiny little point and shoot Pentax has allot of hi end features. And if you know how to create art with a machine, understand the theory and know how to set the controls to make the camera see what your mind is seeing, 12.1 mpx, and HD Video from something very close to the size and weight of a pack of cigarettes is just fine for now. Bottom line. Do you know where I can get Software similar to yours for this camera? Thanks in advance for any ideas you may have. Patrick

By: raymond

raymond — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 12:13:03 +0000

Ken, yes I have planned for that — obviously pretty easy to do it basically but I wonder if I can do it multi-threaded or at least allow choice of prioritizing either downloading or processing what is already downloaded.

My main thought was that calling an arbitrary command line would allow for things like executing a PS droplet so you can do a basic standard post process routine before the customer sees anything!

By: Ken Elliott

Ken Elliott — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 12:04:32 +0000

A nice feature would be to add a way to execute a script after image capture. In this case, the script (or command) would be to copy the file from a temp folder to a folder Capture One is watching.

Great product, BTW. I’ currently tethered with a pair of 15 foot USB extension cables, using LightRoom 2.2 to automatically import from a watched folder. I’m quite impressed with your program – much simpler than Nikon’s Control. Thanks!

By: raymond

raymond — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 08:05:17 +0000

Tony, strange indeed. All my program does is save the file in the specified folder — as I presume any tethering software would do. The only “odd” thing my script does is that it saves the file first under a temp name, then *renames* it to .jpg or .nef as appropriate. This is necessary to avoid Adobe Bridge choking. But perhaps Capture One is looking for an image file to be open/created and that never happens, instead a rename happens.

Maybe try manually moving, copying, renaming, creating dummy files into a folder while Capture one is watching to folder to work out what is the “trigger” that it is looking for.

By: Tony Mah

Tony Mah — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 07:43:31 +0000

I pressed “Start Tether” and it worked!
I am using another program “Capture One” to display the raws but it doesn’t seem to pickup the new files. It works with Nikon Capture Control, but with your Capture Control, it doesn’t detect that a new file has been copied into the folder.
Test 1:
1. Start Capture One
2. setup capture folder
3. setup capture one to display newest file
4. copy raw file from desktop to capture folder
5. Raw image appears on the screen
This also works with Nikon Capture Control Pro

Test 2
1. load Capture one
2. Load your capture control
3. setup your output folder to the same as capture one capture folder
4. Take picture with you capture control
5. file appears on the explorer window
6. Capture Once doesn’t see it
7. Need to refresh Capture One to see any new pictures

By: raymond

raymond — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 06:52:59 +0000

Tony, zald — it should work. Did you press the Start Tether button to go into tethering mode first?

By: zald

zald — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 13:00:34 +0000

@ Tony Mah …..Same here.