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What works and doesn’t work

December 10th, 2008 · 23 Comments

This is a summary of what Nikon DSLR models have been seen working, or not working, with the script.

DIYPhotobits Camera Control 2.1 - Greens
  XP Vista
D300 Yes
Yes
Yes
D40 Yes  
D80 Yes No
Yes
D50 No
Yes
Yes
 
D200 / Fuji S5 Almost
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Partial
D60 Yes Yes
D70 / 70s Yes  
D90 - yes /w issues    
D3 - yes  
D2x - yes  

 

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Free Tethered Shooting Script for Nikon

May 23rd, 2008 · 83 Comments

Update: This is now obsolete, use instead the the free DIYPhotobits.com Camera Control 2.1 application.

Update: The With Bridge version provides almost instant image viewing in Adobe Bridge without any keypresses.  If you use Bridge instead of Adobe Lightroom then download that version.  I’ve also made a video to show how to use this script.

If you’ve been keeping up with the blogs of various big photography bloggers out there you’ll certainly have been seeing quite a bit about tethered shooting recently. Not that it is a revolution or anything, but it certainly is a help to be able to see your images immediately on a big screen — and that doesn’t just go for those with failing eye-sight but basically the images you see on the LCD at the back of your camera are only the jpg preview, not the RAW (should you be shooting raw).

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