Z8

[vinifera]

is there a windows 10 setting issue?  I've updated all, have latest Nikon Backyard (including pre release).  when i start up, camera can not be found by NBY.  Nikon tether works fine.  in the pre release version, the z8 and 9 boxes are not available as choices.

 

any help would be greatly appreciated. 

[astroman133]

Nikon made a decision to only support new cameras in the 64-bit version of their SDK. This affects the Z8. Since BYN uses the Nikon SDK to control the camera the developers of BYN had to design a 64-bit version of that application.

In the Pre-Release download area there are both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of BYN 3.5.0. To use BYN with the Z8 you need to download BYN 3.5.0.RC8 x64.

I do not know about the Z9. It could be that no other Nikon user has asked about it prior to you. There may be information in the archives of this forum.

[admin]

As suggested above, you need to download the 64 bits version. In fact, I will discontinue the 32 bits version when I promote 3.5 to release status, will probably do so for both BYN and BYE.