Controlling Nikon camera with MTP

Question

I was wondering how i would be able to get started with controlling my nikon DSLR camera? I have been reading on the Nikon SDK and MPT/PTP and is really confused on how to start with writing a script to control it. Thanks for helping me.

Answer 1

If you are just wanting to script stuff, under Linux libgphoto2 and gphoto2 are a good start.

You can use them under windows, I'm not sure if there are pre-compiled build available, but that would also require installing the USB wrapper libraries, and that a touch fiddly.

The next step above that is to compile libgphoto2 in cygwin (there are some good guides how to this on the web), but that overkill.

I am currently using digicamcontrol in windows, and for Nikon and C# code it's really nice to use, and very fast, plus it has no hassle on the USB front. It wouldn't be too hard to write a small C# that does what you want (unknown) and then run that from scripts.

Answer 2

this is what you are looking for: http://sourceforge.net/projects/nikoncswrapper/

Good luck

Answer 3

In case anybody is still looking at this: the answer is a bit more complex if what you are looking to do is write your own code to access a Nikon DSLR. Thomas Dideriksen's SDK wrapper referenced above is great in making it easy to access Nikon's SDK to control almost all camera functions - but it is restricted to USB-cable access since that SDK does not support wireless access. If the latter is what you want, your best option may be Duka Istvan's digiCamControl, which Simeon suggests above. This open-source C# project can be used as a standalone library. (See the development documentation page.) It is not all that well documented, though, so figuring out how to control all camera parameters can be tricky.