I suspect the world would be better if that percentage were even greater.
Remote Control of the Nikon 4500?
Hey folks, I’ve passed some of my helpful technical tidbits on to you, it is time that some of you work for me. 🙂
I have a Nikon Coolpix 4500 that I want to control from, well, some bit of hardware that I have lying around. Ideally that would be Linux/FreeBSD/some Unix, but Windows would be okay too. I’ve tried using cPix, but while I have got it to connect via the serial cable, it seems very slow to initialize, and the instant I do anything meaningful, it seems to hang the camera badly enough to require pulling the battery to reset it.
I basically want to be able to control all the common controls on the camera to do some time lapse and automated capture. Source code and/or scripting would be a big plus.
Anyone?
Comment from Richard Ozer
Time 5/24/2005 at 11:32 pm
I’ve gotten the palm pilot software to work… but it can also be a bit flakey. Hangs the pilot but not the camera. Still … it’ll be useful.