BackyardNIKON v1 BETA 01c is ready for download.

[admin]

YEAH... a step closer

 

*** DOWNLOAD BackyardNIKON v1 BETA 01c ***

http://www.binaryrivers.com/download/setup-BackyardNIKON-v100-BETA01c.exe

 

Please report your findings using this thread. 

 

You can refer to this grid for a quick overview.

http://forum.otelescope.com/post/backyardnikon-v1-beta-progress-grid-6857530?pid=1282424740

 

 

As with other beta releases, the setup.exe is pre-packaged with its own tester license.

 

BETA 01c will install side-by-side to other betas, it will not overwrite BETA 01b.

Thank you for all your support in getting this to a production quality.

 

Guylain & Chris.

 

[admin]

Nikon D200

 

sorry, meant to add that I could take bulb exposures with the DUSB connected. I tried 1 minute and 3 minutes and both fine.

 

Stewart

 

Thank you Stewart, I'll update the progress grid.

 

Guylain

[whwang]

Hi, 

 

I tried Beta01c with D800.  Live view seems to work OK.  I can take a Bulb exposure via USB, but not series of Bulb exposures.  When I ask to take multiple Bulb exposures, it always stops after the first one is taken.  On the other hand, if I ask to take multiple non-Bulb exposures, it goes well.

 

I also noticed that it doesn't save images to the camera although I asked to save images to both PC and camera.

 

These are what I found so far.

 

Cheers,

Wei-Hao

[admin]

Hi, 

 

I tried Beta01c with D800.  Live view seems to work OK.  I can take a Bulb exposure via USB, but not series of Bulb exposures.  When I ask to take multiple Bulb exposures, it always stops after the first one is taken.  On the other hand, if I ask to take multiple non-Bulb exposures, it goes well.

 

I also noticed that it doesn't save images to the camera although I asked to save images to both PC and camera.

 

These are what I found so far.

 

Cheers,

Wei-Hao

 

Hi Wei-Hao,

 

Thank you for the feedback on the D800.  Can you please send me the files so I can see why the end bulb sequence seems to be an issue.

 

The log files are in "My Pictures\BackyardTEMP\logs".

 

Regards,

 

Guylain

[whwang]

Hi Guylain,

 

A log file is attached. 

 

Cheers,

Wei-Hao

[mistuk]

Well without any memory cards image capture seems to work fine on the D600 - including bulb over usb!

 

21:23:49  Licensed to BETA TESTER (support@binaryrivers.com)

21:23:55  Nikon drivers initialized.

21:24:29  Attempting to connect camera...

21:24:30  D600 CONNECTED!

21:26:08  Camera SHUTDOWN!

07:58:54  Attempting to connect camera...

07:58:55  D600 CONNECTED!

07:59:08  Imaging session started.

07:59:42  Imaging session completed successfully

07:59:51  Imaging session started.

07:59:54  Imaging session cancelled

07:59:54  [kNkMAIDResult_ValueOutOfBounds] (kNkMAIDCommand_CapStart, 33560, kNkMAIDDataType_GenericPtr, 365947896)

07:59:56  Imaging session cancelled

08:00:06  Imaging session started.

08:00:27  LIGHT_Tv15s_1600iso_--_00123stdev_20140421-08h00m01s794ms.NEF

08:00:49  IMAGE_20140421-08h00m08s108ms.JPG

08:00:57  IMAGE_20140421-08h00m31s747ms.NEF

08:00:59  Imaging session cancelled

08:00:59  [kNkMAIDResult_ValueOutOfBounds] (kNkMAIDCommand_CapStart, 33560, kNkMAIDDataType_GenericPtr, 496888872)

08:01:01  Imaging session cancelled

08:01:13  IMAGE_20140421-08h01m08s350ms.NEF

[mistuk]

Here's the full log file......

logfile-[20140420-21h23m44s773]-[3668]-2014-04-21.txt

[admin]

Here's the full log file......

 

Thank you, I have updated the progress grid with your info.

 

I'll have to dig deeper to find the cause of this and fix for sure.  For the time being the work around for the D600 and D610 is to remove the card.

 

I find it curious that this occurs on the D600 and D610 only... and the fact that they are both in the D6## series leads me to believe there is a special feature/setting in that line up that makes them behave differently.  I hope I can find over time, it's kind of a pain to have to remove the card.

 

Guylain 

[whwang]

Hi Gyulain,

 

This is a feature request, for both the Nikon and Canon versions.

I would love to see an option that allows to save image files to PC with file names

identical to those used in-camera.  In other word, just the camera sequential number

in the file name.  I remember this function did not exist on the Canon version when

I was still using Canon.  Today when I tried the Nikon beta, I still do not find such

an option.  

 

Cheers,

Wei-Hao

[Pchas01]

If it is the #2 you need to go into windows firewall settings and add PHD manually as a rule.

 

That's exactly what I did after reading your explanation Guy.  Now just waiting for another clear night to test it.

 

I do have another question though, in BN, the capture storage settings are PC and SD card.  When I finished imaging, I was surprised to find no images on the SD card?

 

This is a minor annoyance, since I like to load the DS data into Nikon ViewNX for reviewing and discarding bad images prior to stacking in DSS and processing in PS5.

 

Is there a fix for this? 

 

Best...Paul

 

 

[admin]

If it is the #2 you need to go into windows firewall settings and add PHD manually as a rule.

 

That's exactly what I did after reading your explanation Guy.  Now just waiting for another clear night to test it.

 

I do have another question though, in BN, the capture storage settings are PC and SD card.  When I finished imaging, I was surprised to find no images on the SD card?

 

This is a minor annoyance, since I like to load the DS data into Nikon ViewNX for reviewing and discarding bad images prior to stacking in DSS and processing in PS5.

 

Is there a fix for this? 

 

Best...Paul

 

 

 

This is the normal behavior of Nikons when connected to a PC, I say this because I do not control that yet in BYN.  I do nothing to tell it NOT to save to the card so I suspect this is how the SDK works... but I'm not 100% sure yet.  I will focus on those functional issues once we move to BETA 02.

 

So far I have feedback on 11 out of 22 supported cameras.  I would like to get feedback on at least 4 to 5 more models before wrapping BETA 01.

 

New rule... please always tell me your camera model when posting issues... otherwise I need to search the thread and that is painfully long <_>

 

All cameras each have their little intricacies and issues are more often tied to a single model rather than all.  The only way I can make some sense out of an issue is knowing the model number first

 

 

Guylain

[innkeeper]

Hi 

just had a quick try with my D90 and the it comes up camera connected. But cant do any think else. Just using the lead that I use for down loading images, do I need a different lead? Will ask some one who uses Backyardeso to have a try. but have you any ideas 

[astroman133]

Do you have a memory card with lots of images in your camera when you connect? 

 

From what others have said, the Nikon API assumes that you want to access those image and so takes quite a bit of time just after connection to catalog the images on the card.  If this is the issue, you can improve this by replacing the memory card with one that is empty.

[astroman133]

Hi Gyulain,

 

This is a feature request, for both the Nikon and Canon versions.

I would love to see an option that allows to save image files to PC with file names

identical to those used in-camera.  In other word, just the camera sequential number

in the file name.  I remember this function did not exist on the Canon version when

I was still using Canon.  Today when I tried the Nikon beta, I still do not find such

an option.  

 

Cheers,

Wei-Hao

 

You can change the file name template on the Settings screen to mimic the in-camera file naming.  This has always been so with BYE.  I cannot say for Nikon, because I don't know the builtin naming convention, but you should be able to come close.

 

 

 

[admin]

You can change the file name template on the Settings screen to mimic the in-camera file naming.  This has always been so with BYE.  I cannot say for Nikon, because I don't know the builtin naming convention, but you should be able to come close.

 

BackyardNIKON works exactly the same as BackyardEOS for file name templates, it's the same code

 

Guylain

[chrboult]

Do you have a memory card with lots of images in your camera when you connect? 

From what others have said, the Nikon API assumes that you want to access those image and so takes quite a bit of time just after connection to catalog the images on the card.  If this is the issue, you can improve this by replacing the memory card with one that is empty.

Hi just to chime in on this.

It looks like that is exactly what is going on. Here is a blurb from the writers of the Nikon wrapper we are using to access the camera :

 

Why does it take so long for my camera to be recognized?

When you connect your camera to your PC, the Nikon SDK (apparently) have to enumerate all the items on your SD/CF card. If you have a large, slow card and a lot of photos this can take a very long time. The DeviceAdded event will NOT be fired until this internal enumeration process is complete.
The solution is to empty your memory card.
Alternatively, you can remove your memory card altogether. Most features works fine even when a memory card is not available.

-Chris