Control My Nikon 52 Keygen
Sandeep Albritton
I have no experience with this laser, but assume that it is controlled through analog and digital inputs, that are most likely connected to an NI board in the computer. You can try to control that NI board through Micro-Manager (at least some boards are supported). Alternatively, you could use the inputs directly and provide the analog and digital signals through something like the Triggerscope.
Yes, sorry for using abbreviations! You would configure Micro-Manager to control the board. You would go through the hardware configuration wizard, and use one of the two NI adapters (first try NIMultiAnalog: -manager.org/wiki/NIMultiAnalog as that seems the most recent and capable one). Configuring things to your liking may be complicated, but it would be a good start to see of the adapter recognizes your board.
I am shooting M at 1/160 f 8 but the Flash Control Mode is grey and says not available in current settings or in the camera's current state. What needs to be changed so I can access Flash Control? Thanks
Actually my camera is a Z7. and it looks like you need to have a Nikon flash attached before the Flash mode is activated. I am using an Ikelite DS161 strobe which has TTL capabilities but the TTL is not working. The instruction book is not clear about the use of non Nikon flashes. Thanks for your help.
Thanks. Looks like it only works with Nikon flashes. Need to figure out why my Ikelite DS161 strobe TTL is not working. The flash fires, but no TTL. Yes, strobe is set on TTL and I have tried other connection cables and cleaned the contacts. Ikelite troubleshooting suggestions have not worked.
Need to figure out why my Ikelite DS161 strobe TTL is not working. The flash fires, but no TTL. Yes, strobe is set on TTL and I have tried other connection cables and cleaned the contacts. Ikelite troubleshooting suggestions have not worked.
Actually my camera is a Z7. and it looks like you need to have a Nikon flash attached before the Flash mode is activated. I am using an Ikelite DS161 strobe which has TTL capabilities but the TTL is not working.
Looks like you may need an optional add-on, the TTL converter, to get TTL communication between the hotshoe of the camera and the flash. If you're using a sync port on the camera, that cannot communicate TTL, only sync. Only the flash hotshoe or the Nikon CLS/AWL optical system (connected using fiber optics) would work to give you TTL, I suspect.
Ikelite makes underwater strobes with a TTL feature and sells a special link that fits on the cable that connects to the Nikon Z7 in the Ikelite housing. They also provide TTL trouble shooting guide, non of it helps.
Hmmm. Could be similar to the TTL-not-working issue that Godox was having, that required firmware updates to their flashes for full compatibility with the Z7ii. Nikon may have changed the hotshoe communication protocol with the Z7ii.
You could also check the fit of the converter cable on the Nikon hotshoe. D750 and later hotshoes apparently had a slight physical change that can mean a foot sits slightly too far forward in the hotshoe for all the TTL communication pins to make contact. Locking down the hotshoe, and then pulling it back slightly until you hear the locking pin click into place is apparently the workaround method.
Yup. The ISO standards that govern flash hotshoes/feet ensure the physical dimensions and the electronic signal for firing the flash (short from ground to sync; rails to the center contact), so M will always work. It's all the other stuff that requires the other contacts/pins: HSS, TTL, camera menu control over flash settings, etc.
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Anyone slse really fed-up with Nikon's utterly awful software attitude? The Hi-Res D3200 would make for a nice high resolution tethered slide 'scanner' for want of a better word aswell as macro..... To use as they suggest I need to go buy an Android device and a 60 dongle....
Perhaps you can e-mail Nikon in Japan with your situation? But my guess is you are buying, or bought, the *budget* body with the needs of the *premium* D-SLR body. Some things in life just do not go the way one hopes they will....
Also note that it's been 6 months and if they were customer focused they would hire a developer to fix the app. but it seems no one is working on it cause not one update since initial release. not one. Nikon has no intention of making that app any better.
so now i am feeling like i got ripped off by Nikon when i bought the d3200. i have to sell it and buy something else cause it just does not do what the rest of the Nikon DSLRs can do.... which is remote control. the android app cant do it at a pro level. sure it passed the test plan n developer got paid and left never to be heard from again.
Hi,
Just got my D7000. When I turn it off the top panel always has some figures showing. Do these always stay on or can I turn them off? Without a memory card it always has the error symbol. How do I turn the camera completely off
Thanks in advance.
1:41PM, 8 November 2010 PDT(permalink)
Chris, this is normal and your camera is as "completely off" as it ever gets without removing the battery. All Nikon DSLRs with a top control panel display the estimated number of frames remaining on the installed memory card while the power is turned off. As you correctly surmise, the -E- symbol indicates that there is no memory card in the camera.
Don't fret about this, the battery drain caused by this is so miniscule as to be completely insignificant.
ages ago(permalink)
How did you have your flash set? TTL? Auto? Manual?... or maybe TTL/BL? This is a guess, but in balanced TTL mode it probably ups the ISO to capture more of the background light. It's one of the reasons I don't use auto ISO and why I tend to shoot manual with the flash in TTL mode so that I can drag the shutter to let the ambient light in while still getting proper flash exposure with the subject.
ages ago(permalink)
It's there so when you're swapping memory cards (which should always be done with the power off) - you can instantly see which have space on them without needing to keep turning the camera off and on.
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Chris, the high iso with flash is a change Nikon has made in their firmware starting with the release of the D300s.
I sure wish there was a setting to automatically turn off auto-iso if flash is used. Since there isn't, I just make a point to turn off auto-iso if I intend to use flash.
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I have to admit, after taking several hundred photos one weekend, I left my D80 in the bag turned ON for four weeks (yes, I went a whole four weeks without shooting... it happens) Battery indicator still showed 3/4 charge, so I shot another 500 photos before changing the battery. Nikon certainly has figured out a thing or two about lowering power consumption.
ages ago(permalink)
Thanks for the "hello" -- I joined this group, so I must be getting pretty darned serious about retiring my D90 as soon as I can find an available D7000 body only from a reputable dealer. The way things are looking now, it may be a very late Christmas present. :-(
Five years ago, when I bought my Nikon 18-200 VR lens (and I was lucky enough to score a very early one from Adorama), I thought the huge demand and short supply for more than 6 months was bad. Now it looks like public demand for the D7000 has completely exceeded Nikon's production capacity again. Hard to say how long this will last.
"Nikon certainly has figured out a thing or two about lowering power consumption." You're right about that. I also have a nasty habit of forgetting to turn my camera off and putting it in the bag for several days. The battery has never discharged completely, usually only a little bit.
I've learned two very important lessons from missing shots.
1. NEVER turn the camera off when you're carrying it around. Like you say, the damned thing won't take a picture if it's not turned on.
2. ALWAYS leave the lens cap OFF when you're carrying it around. Lens caps are intended to protect the front element when the camera is turned off and stored, NOT to be used while the camera is being carried around. I wish I had a dollar for all the shots I've missed in the past while fumbling to remove the lens cap.
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