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Tethering D7100 to laptop

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iNYONi

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I havent tried this as yet but wondering if it is at all possible. Someone else on the forum has asked me the same question and I'm unsure if it's possible.

 

Can you connect the D7100 to a laptop and have a live view of pictures taken?

 

Would be really helpful for quick view of portraits.

 

 



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Not sure about the D7100, but if my D40 & D80 can, I'm sure you can.

If you're really struggling, an eye-fi SD card will give you wireless tethering.

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Tethering rocks!!!! And yes I know the D80 and the D7000/D7100 can tether. I am not sure of the D40. I use Apple Aperture to tether. If you are on a Mac you can also get Sofortbild, and it is free. Lightroom will also do tethered shooting. I think CaptureNX will tether, but I am not sure.

 

I even shlep a little barstool with me to set the Macbook on when I am on a location shoot. I love how I can see the images on the big 15" screen. I have had a number of images when I saw them on the camera LCD I thought they were good, but when I got them into the computer they were off bad. I don't have that on the computer. It is also easier to show others that way too. And you don't have to dump the SD card later on because they are now already on the computer.

 

I have thought if I get a D7100 at some point that I would run an Eye-fi card in one of the slots. Then I would shoot RAW to one slot and small JPGs to the Eye-fi slot. i would then set that one up to be tethered to an iPad. That way I can get a larger screen image on something that is more portable with better battery life than my Macbook. Later I can transfer the RAW images to the MBP for editing.

 

It will be interesting to see what the D5300 is capable of with the built in Wi-fi. It would be cool if you could shoot RAW to the SD card and then Wi-fi to an iPad in real time.



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I use Darktable on Ubuntu Linux for tethering, but would really like to tether to the iPad.

The Eye-fi Pro X2 card can setup an ad hoc wifi network. If the camera is set to RAW +JPEG! the JPEG can be sent to the iPad using shuttersnitch.

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I use Nikon Camera Control Pro 2 with my D7000 and it's an awesome bit of of software.

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I use Nikon Camera Control Pro 2 with my D7000 and it's an awesome bit of of software.

Will have a look for that tomorrow. Thanks



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Trigger trap is another good one, this connects your ipad to your DSLR via a special dongle, then you can control most of the camera functions such as focus, shutter speed, delayed shooting, time lapse etc. it's qhuite useful
. You download the app for free onto you ipad or iPhone thn the dongle is approximately £30 last time I looked.

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Understand that you can do it using:

Nikon WU-1a Wireless Mobile Adapter

Interesting comments on the amazon page associated with this accessory:

 

http://www.amazon.co..._pr_product_top



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I had no idea you could do this.

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I think the wu-1a might be the way to go. It's official after all.

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Thanks for the info about the wireless transmitter!

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I have only read reviews of it on websties etc. Would be really interested to hear from any members of the fourm who have used it and what advantages they have found?







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