Update: Sadly this doesn’t work. Ok I really need to fix this bug soon.
Getting this message from DIYPhotobits.com Camera Control when you click the “Shutter Release” button?
It’s a bug, the script is failing to handle the fact that the camera is very slightly slow in delivering the image after taking it.
To avoid this:
Stop using the “Download Immediately” checkbox
Instead, press the “Start Tether” button.
The result is (almost) the same; when you click Shutter Release the images ARE immediately downloaded (because the tether is running), but it’s by a different piece of code that patiently waits for the image to become available rather than demanding it immediately.
Side-effect; this means if you press the shutter release button on the camera then that image also is downloaded.
Sorry I haven’t posted a proper fix for this. What with a new baby in the house (3 months next week and doing fine) we hardly have time to get our jobs done, let alone our hobbies.
7 responses so far ↓
1 Salamaar // Sep 30, 2009 at 1:30 am
I don’thave this bug, but I seem to be getting a message every time I hit the shutter release button. “Line 155, char 2, Obj required ‘dlg’”. That and the time lapse function isn’t working. I had it working for about an hour then it starting spitting those messages at me.
2 raymond // Oct 2, 2009 at 9:49 am
Pretty strange Salamaar, if it worked once why should it stop working? Any chance of a bad connection to the camera? sometimes I find that causes strange results.
3 Ralph // Oct 14, 2009 at 12:24 pm
Hello, we are getting this error message also. Is it possible to use the piece of code that patiently waits for the image to become available for the time laps code?
4 raymond // Oct 15, 2009 at 2:15 am
Are you using the latest version, 4.1 ? I thought I fixed this problem in that release. It waits (not forever though) for images to become available.
5 steve // Nov 22, 2009 at 2:12 pm
thanks for creating this …it is very much appreciated… I installed version 4.1, clicked on SELECT CAMERA and got this error
Line : 712
Error: The operation indentifier is not valid.
Hope you can help with resolving this…
6 raymond // Nov 23, 2009 at 7:46 am
Steve, is your camera plugged in and being recognised by Windows? (You should be able to see it in My Computer).
7 steve // Nov 23, 2009 at 11:22 pm
yes..laptop running Win XP recognises camera, (Nikon D40)…I can transfer pics to laptop using USB .
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