Yes, your Nikon D300 is compatible with Camera Control. Many other photographers have asked similar questions when tethering their Nikon DSLR to Camera Control Pro. Am I missing something or is Camera Control 2.0 not compatible with my Nikon D300? This was written pretty quickly, but wanted to help before heading out.When I use Nikon’s Camera Control Pro 2.0 the photo only shows small on my screen. Spot checks with/without the CF made no difference Many of the cables aren't marked so non-scientific results here.ġ\ You understand what I mean when referring to a USB cable with a ferrite bead.Ģ\ Neither a USB hub or Active USB cable is in useĬam > 3' Cable > A/B Gender Changer > 16' Cable #1 (quality) > LaptopĬam > 3' Cable > A/B Gender Changer > 16' Cable #2 (quality) > LaptopĬam > 3' Cable > A/B Gender Changer > 16' Cable #3 (so-so) > LaptopĬam > 3' Cable > A/B Gender Changer > 16' Cable #4 (active) > Laptop I was just happy to label the cable set as “D200 only”.Ĭurious, I went back and did some testing. No testing was conducted to see which of the two variables (Belkin or the bead) was most important in the longer configuration. These are used to suppress high frequency noise. Near the B connector there is a ferrite bead. A point about the Nikon supplied cable that I noticed in composing this post. The 16’ cable is from Belkin, but any high quality cable should work. Presence of a CF card made no difference. 2/ The highest quality 16’ A to B cable / B to A “gender changer” / the Nikon supplied A to Mini-B cable – with the cam placed across the room for normal shooting. 1/ Any 3-4’ A to Mini-B cable – with the cam sitting next to the laptop. Many USB cable configurations were tested and two worked every time…even pulling in the largest RAW files for display. What changed was the layout of the work area, increasing the distance from the laptop to the camera. Using the gear listed above, tethered shooting has worked well in the past. You wrote almost word-for word-what happened to me a couple of days ago. The setup here is completely different from yours ( Thinkpad T42,XP-SP3, D200-FW 2.01, CCP 1.3) but issue “appears” to be the same, or at least acts like it. The problem you describe mirrors a recent experience. But it's so frustrating when it's constantly disconnecting and I have to sit there waiting. I'd really like to use this for a project so I can see images on the computer screen as they are taken in interval timer mode. And I have tried much more than that as can be seen above. Can anyone help? I've contacted Nikon and they are not helpful at all, they take weeks to respond and then all they have to offer is "try upgrading your firmware" (I have) or "try updating the application" (I have). It seems like some people have no problem with this application. I think I have tried everything and isolated all other problems I can imagine other than user error and the app itself, but I can't imagine what I could be doing wrong. I've tried uninstalling all Nikon apps and reinstalling. The one I have now has solid state HD, 10.6.8, 2.66 Ghz, 8GB Ram. I've tried both a D3 and a D3s both with up to date firmware, and have the same issue with both I've tried numerous USB cables with no difference Multiple USB slots I've tried 3 different computers now, all new laptops with different OS versions, and no difference. I'm using the latest versions of the CCP2 and ViewNX2, and running ViewNX2 so that the images show up there after each shot in interval timer mode. Quitting the app and restarting, turning the camera off, unplugging and replugging the USB cable don't seem to make any difference.Īll computers are Macs running the latest 2 versions of OS (I've tried both in case it couldn't handle the most recent one) Using interval timer shooting I get around 30 shots (at 1shot/10sec) before it disconnects while trying to download an image and I have to force everything to quit and start over, but then it won't connect again when I plug in and I have to sit there waiting for it. Sometimes I give up on the app before it connects. Every once in a while it happens immediately. When I plug everything in it sits there with the "no camera connected" box, and sometimes it takes 5 minutes to figure it out and connect sometimes more. It won't connect to my camera much of the time though it eventually does usually, it seems to take a random amount of time to connect, then when it does it disconnects shortly afterward. I'm having a lot of trouble with this app, it's almost unusable from connectivity issues.
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