Press the shutter release button to take an image. It will be taken as a Raw or JPG depending on the setting of the drop down box regardless of the setting of the camera.
Note that the raw/jpg dropdown does not change what happens when you press the camera shutter release button; that is controlled on the camera.
If you want jpg+raw then you must set this on the camera and use the camera shutter release button. Both files will be downloaded if you have the Start Tether button pressed but only the jpg will be previewed.
16 responses so far ↓
1 Chris // Mar 23, 2010 at 11:25 am
Hi ,
I wanted to use this at a local school PTA so parents can see there children on screen and if they want to buy a print they can there and then.. can yo usee any probelms with this type and amount of workflow?
Chris
2 raymond // Mar 24, 2010 at 9:24 am
Chris, sounds like something you could make work. Probably be easier with two PCs though, one for tethering and one for showing/selling/printing!
3 Peter // May 19, 2010 at 7:11 pm
Great bit of software but.. If I shoot RAW and JPEG files I dont get a preview, If I shoot ONLY JPEG it works fine. As soon as I choose RAW on its own or RAW + JPEG then no preview.
Any fix?
Nikon D3.
Thanks!
4 Peter // May 19, 2010 at 7:25 pm
OK D3 has tow slots, if you shoot RAW to one card and JPEG to the second it works just fine!
Just going to try D200 with RAW + JPEg now, will report back!
5 Peter // May 19, 2010 at 7:49 pm
D200 – Works ok with both RAW and JPEG on same card.
Must remember to set windows to import automatically from device (same as D3)
Thanks for a great little prog!
6 Koen // Jun 27, 2010 at 7:57 pm
“It will be taken as a Raw or JPG depending on the setting of the drop down box regardless of the setting of the camera.”
With my D70, it is just the opposite: the setting of the camera always dictates the file format. Suggestions??
7 paul // Aug 14, 2010 at 6:09 pm
everything works great … but am not getting any preview (shooting in jpg). ?
8 paul // Aug 14, 2010 at 6:11 pm
disregard … when I hit “stop tether” and then “start tether” previews started
9 Ken P // Aug 28, 2010 at 6:30 am
“If you want jpg+raw then you must set this on the camera and use the camera shutter release button. ”
On my D-90 with Windows7 when I set my camera to jpg+raw and filetype jpg in DiyPhotoBits the DiyPhotoBits shutter release button takes and downloads both file types. Yay!
10 ZsF // Aug 31, 2010 at 4:14 am
Hi,
I am thinking of using your program for astrophotography. Can you program a manually configurable timed shutter?
For astophotography the program’s time lapse function would be fine, but shutter times of 1-30 minutes would be needed (astrophotographers usually use dslr-s in this shutter time range).
11 Washbaer // Oct 19, 2010 at 3:53 pm
Hi, verrrry great tool, i love it
But ive a question, is there an option to shoot a picture with the software throu command line?
I dint found any in the desctiption
Thanks wash
12 Debasis // Nov 22, 2010 at 7:53 pm
Hi,
Found it even more straight forward than Nikon’s Camera Control V 2 or 4.
For Time lapse photography hpwever, it is behaving in unexpected way. With my setting of 5 sec frequency, 1 shot at a time, total 5 shots5 frames, at 5 second frequency, 0 sec delay before starting (Shutter speed kept at 250 with f/4.5 in manual settng and tithering on with jpg pic format), the shutter is firing at an interval of around 10 seconds. The same happened with different shutter speed of frequency setting. Any suggestion? Please.
13 Paul // Jan 29, 2011 at 12:34 pm
HI,
Everything works great on D700 but the D200 has shutter release problems. Sometimes it does activate the shtter release but there are script problems and no jpeg picture appears. I’m in the UK so maybe there are some slight software differences.
14 Derrick King // Mar 28, 2011 at 1:28 pm
I am shooting with a Nikon D80. The JPG file type option works well with my camera. Unfortunatley I’ve had no luck with the RAW file type. Can you use the RAW file type when working with a D80? If yes, how?
Thank you.
15 Koen // Mar 28, 2011 at 2:24 pm
Derrick,
On my D70 it works when you put the RAW setting manually on the camera and then choose the RAW setting on the application. If there is a mismatch between each other it doesn’t work. I suppose this is a small bug in the software, or something in the camera that prevents to set it via the application.
16 Sue north // Feb 5, 2012 at 6:27 pm
lovely software
Can I ues live view or are you going to introduce it?
Regards
Sue
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