D300 teathered - Other than Camera control Pro?

[ChrisPurves]

Hi:- I have been shooting with Nikon capture control 4 with a D100.
Now that I have the D300 I can't use Capture control 4.
I am set up to take the photo and have it show full screen on a 19" LCD as soon as it is in the computer. After all the photos of one dog are taken the photos are sent through 5 Minute photo onto the viewing stations.
I don't know what other ways I can control the camera other than camera control pro. Is there another way of doing it.
I can stay with Nikon View and Camera control but I am asking if there are other programs or workflow that can do this as well.

Thanks
Chris

[LarryLetzer]

The D3 and D300 require the new Camera Control Pro 2. Nikon says registered users of Camera Control Pro can upgrade for a discounted price.

[DierkHaasis]

There is no other solution as smooth as Nikon Camera Control [in this case the current version]. Since controlling the camera completely, that is all aspects of it, from the computer requires deep knowledge of the soft- and hardware APIs, Nikon would need to publish these for other programmers. This could either be as a technical paper or an SDK.

Unfortunately Nikon is not too eager to publish their "business secrets". AFAIK, the SDK available is only for reading/writing of NEF - and even that only partially [complete read, writing of metadata].

[ChrisPurves]

Thanks Gents:- I can't upgrade because I have Nikon Capture control 4, this version is too old.

I'm going to have to bite the bullet and purchase it.

Thanks again.

Cheers
Chris

[DouglasUrner]

If you're using a Mac, one option would be to use Image Capture -- it it bundled with the OS, and while it doesn't have the cool features of CCP 2 it will let you trip the shutter and get the images from the camera. At a very good price.

Bibble (the raw converter) also supports a limited flavor of tethering. You operate the camera as if it were shooting to a card, but Bibble copies each image to the computer as it is shot. If you don't need the remote control features or the ability to configure the camera that CCP 2 provides, Bibble is worth checking out. Bibble is also much faster at transering images (compared to CCP 2).

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