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By: NKRemote - tethered Shooting für Nikon Kameras

NKRemote - tethered Shooting für Nikon Kameras — Mon, 24 May 2010 10:40:38 +0000

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By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:10:51 +0000

So I have a D300 and I would like to still view a preview on the back of the camera. The “push to external viewer” button doesn’t seem to work.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:50:12 +0000

Thanks all for your feedback and attention to this. I’ve been away with another project so haven’t responded. Good thing is goint to the PTP Mode solved the issue, at least well enough for me to use it for my intended purpose. Raymond how come there is no button to release the shutter from the PC in this revision?
Thanks again.
Patrick

By: Luis

Luis — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:46:39 +0000

Muchas gracias por la pronta respuesta.
Lo voy a probar.
Ayer saque muchas fotos que luego las compile con Startrails y quedo bastante bien. Estoy aprendiendo.

Lenguaje diabolico jajaj

Thank you very much by the quick answer.
I am going it to try.
It yesterday take many photos that compile soon them with Startrails and I am rather well.
I am learning.

Diabolic language jajaj

By: raymond

raymond — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 02:23:39 +0000

Luis, thanks for taking the time to struggle with the evil English language.

You want to rapidly take 50 photographs. Each image to be of 30 second exposure.

For this case I would set Frequency=1, Shots each time=30, Total shots to take=30, Delay before starting=0

I have not tested this though. Perhaps you may test it first with a smaller number such as 3 or 5.

By: Luis

Luis — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:28:37 +0000

Hello:
In the first place excuses by the evil handling of the language.
Secondly, congratulations, excellent program!
And thirdly the question:
¿What is the configuration in
Frequency (seconds)
Shots each time
Total shots to take
Delay before starting
in order to realise 50 photographies of 30 seconds of Exposure with the smaller possible time it enters taking and it takes?
Greetings and Thanks.
Nikon D3000, WinXp

By: JoeB

JoeB — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 06:31:19 +0000

I am using a Nikon D80 on Windows 7 64bit. It is really odd. It goes through all the motions and I see it changing the camera settings and the shutter triggers, but nothing saves anywhere, not on the camera or in the directory I specify in the script.

By: raymond

raymond — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 13:58:28 +0000

JoeB, thanks for correcting me about the “PC”. I don’t understand why the script would continue though if the camera is in mass storage mode. Perhaps Patrick has some other device connected (such as a webcam, mobile phone or scanner) which counts as a camera and this is being picked up by the script.

For your own error with no new images being saved — what camera and what OS are you using? If you press the shutter release on the camera is the result the same as pressing the button on the script? You do have a memory card in the camera?

By: JoeB

JoeB — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 06:07:48 +0000

Hey Patrick, If you see PC in the LCD window you are in Mass Storage mode. You need to go to your menu on the camera and change the USB mode from mass storage to PTP.

On a side note, my script doesn’t get any errors, but when I trigger the shutter, the camera takes a picture but I don’t get one anywhere. There aren’t any new images on the camera and nothing lands in the the specified output directory.

By: raymond

raymond — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:36:17 +0000

Thanks for the additional info Patrick. It’s strange though — at line 555 it is reading the possible Exposure Compensation values for your camera, that is not a very challenging item and I’m surprised it fails. The other errors are probably side effects of failing the start up routine. I’ll think about it some more and see if I can see what this means.