Sections » camera control http://www.locusviridis.co.uk/sections The ramblings of a British Entomologist Fri, 28 May 2010 16:54:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Free Tethered/Remote Photography Software http://www.locusviridis.co.uk/sections/archives/828 http://www.locusviridis.co.uk/sections/archives/828#comments Thu, 27 May 2010 12:27:27 +0000 L Livermore http://www.locusviridis.co.uk/sections/?p=828 Part of my work is to photograph pinned insect specimens and I had previously been manually shooting then transferring photos from the SD card to my PC. At work our imaging lab is entirely Canon-based, so I was aware of EOS Utility, Canon’s own remote camera operation software. It wasn’t until I recently went to visit the Paris museum (MNHN) that I worked with Nikon’s Camera Control Pro 2 and realised how much time it would save when organising files if I was using remote photography software.

I started looking at the prices for Nikon remote photography software and Camera Control Pro 2 is fairly expensive, costing around £130 if you buy it from Amazon. Other commercial software was also fairly pricey (NKRemote @ $130), so I looked around for something free.

After a little Googling I found DIYPhotobits.Com Camera Control. It’s completely free and does the job (while using a paltry 373KB of hard drive space)! The interface was so simple that I have already taken photos of two specimens and depth-stacked them (in CombineZP). This means I can now remotely control my camera and produce depth-stacked images using free software :)

Here is an example of Zopherosis georgei (Coleoptera: Zopheridae) that I took today:Zopherosis georgei - dorsal habitus

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