BYN and Nikon D810a

[gnnyman]

Hallo and good day to you all,

I am now working (a loaner) with the Nikon D810a and wnat to use it with BYN. The camera is on the list and properly recognized BUT one of its main features, the M* option with extended exposure time settings up to 600 seconds is not possible. BYN does not allow this mode, when I activate it and connect the camera to BYN, it switches to standard M mode - which means, 30 seconds is the maximum possible exposure time.
I did not find any way to activate M* with BYN (even the newest prerelease does not work) - would it be possible to implement this additional option as it is one of the key features of the D810a...

Thanks - and I would appreciate your comments a lot!

Georg

[s3igell]

BYN allows Exposures of ANY Length via use of the DSLR's Bulb Exposure Feature and BYN's Exposure Plan.  For most modern DSLRs this is accessed by setting the Camera to M and letting BYN do the timing.

[astroman133]

This should be a question in the BYN forum, not in the suggested features forum.

[admin]

I moved this thread to the BackyardNIKON forum as this is not a feature request.

I have a lot of Nikon D810/D810a users, including a close friend.  It works.  I actually used his D810a with 3.1.17 last April.

There might be another camera setting that is not playing nice, but which one?  In cases like this the best recommendation is to perform a camera factory reset and try again.  If still does not work we'll go from there.

Regards,

[astroman133]

Just select Bulb from the Exposure dropdown list and enter the desired exposure length in the Duration column.

[gnnyman]

On 9/29/2019 at 9:45 PM, astroman133 said:

Just select Bulb from the Exposure dropdown list and enter the desired exposure length in the Duration column.

Thanks for your advice, I shall try it asap. I was not aware of this option...