[Consolidation-Locked] Nikon D800 - No Camera Detected

[dacdidac007]

Im trialing Lightroom 4 with my new Nikon D800 with the possiblility of purchasing this software if this its going to work. When I connect my D800 it says "no camera detected". Is there a patch or something missing from the software? Can't believe a new Camera like this has an isse. Or is it just me 😉

Message title was edited by: Brett N

[gatorjim2000]

If you are looking for something for the Mac, take a look at Sofortbild in the Mac App Store. The latest version has support for the Nikon D800, D4 and others. It interfaces with LR via the watched folder, and the price is sure right. Caveat--I haven't used it in a while since my cameras are supported by LR; previous versions had reports of unreliable connections. Might be worth a try until LR gets its act together.

[Guest]

I've tried a lot of the above. The only reliable tethered option for the D800 that I have found is Nikons Control Pro 2 (Import to LR via watched folder etc).

Sofortbild isn't quite right - it causes the camera displays to constantly flash which isn't a good sign, plus not very reliable over a longer shoot. The other bit I don't like is that you can't switch between manually taking a shot direct from the camera (Pressing the shutter release) and clicking via an Icon on the software. Really isn't an acceptable work around.

Tried Eye-Fi which works really well, however, at full image quality or RAW it takes up to 45 seconds to download to the macbook which again, in our studio this just isn't going to cut it. I suppose you could just get the WT4 nikon wireless, but it's so expensive for what it is!

I reckon it's not long until we get support direct in LR so my advice is to be patient unless you REALLY have to have it, I don't think the cheaper work arounds are any good and the cost of NCP2 are too much to justify.

D4's and D800's are such a good studio camera that I can't see Adobe ignoring the need to add tethering at some point in the near future.......especially when Apple already have this function, it can't be beyond the capability of a programmer at Adobe to produce it!

[gatorjim2000]

Thanks for the feedback on Sofortbild... sounds like it continues to have issues like I have read about.

Tethering in LR seems to have continuing issues as well, so I wouldn't hold my breath that they are going to get it right (there's multiple discussions out there about poor reliability when tethered to LR).

I thought that LR 3.6 had tethering issues fixed, but during a recent shoot it failed miserably...I had to actually restart the Macbook to get things going again. Prior to that shoot, I hadn't had problems for a while with LR3.6 tethering, and thought they might have pinned down the cause of the failures. But that's obviously not the case. So there's some set of hard-to-find circumstances that still causes failure(s) during a shoot. Whether or not LR4.1 does the job any better remains to be seen.

If Nikon Capture works reliably as you have indicated, then I wonder if the additional cost might be worth it just to have a reliable connection for every shoot (especially when weighed against the cost of the other Nikon gear). The LR team is likely not ignoring the importance of reliable tethering, I'm just not convinced they have solved all the problems yet.

[barryseidman]

I have given up on waiting for lightroom, I am now using Capture One Pro and loving it.

[Brett N · Accepted solution]

Tethered shooting with the Nikon D800 is now supported with Lightroom 4.2.

Please see http://forums.adobe.com/message/4431233