Nikon D780 LiveView issue

[AntonioMCitati]

I recently downloaded the 2.1.1 Trial Edition to run some tests, I plan to use it together with TheSkyX, but it appears to be bugged for my camera.

I have found that on my Nikon D780 the LiveView function is not working. 
When pressing the Frame&Focus button I cannot see any image and the log reports a unending list of:

21:32:49  Parameter is not valid.
21:32:50  Parameter is not valid.
21:32:50  Parameter is not valid.
21:32:50  Parameter is not valid.
21:32:50  Parameter is not valid.
21:32:50  Parameter is not valid.
21:32:51  Parameter is not valid.

Camera is set to M, shooting is in S mode. LiveView woks flawlessy on Camera Control Pro 2.

If I press the LiveView button on the camera while BYN Frame&Focus is active, I can see the LiveView image on the camera LCD, and on pressing the LiveView  pause button in BYN the LiveView disappears from the camera LCD, and I can hear the shutter noise. In no case I can manage to see the LiveView on BYN.

Also I have tested the LiveView function on a D7100 and a D90 and with both of their cameras it works very well.

The Snap Image and Loop works well in Frame&Focus and Capture appears to be working without any issues in Imaging.

After snapping an image in Frame&Focus, the Zoom frame is not visible and on double click to move it, I always get an Unhandled exception error (I run Windows 10 professional 64bit with 16Gbytes of RAM), you can see the details on the attached file.
This function works well on other cameras I tested.

Thank you.

Antonio M. Citati

 

 

Unhandled Error.txt

logfile-[20210124-22h22m17s383]-[5160]-2021-01-24.txt

[s3igell]

Check the Focus-Mode for your Camera - make sure it is NOT one of the Face-Tracking modes.

[AntonioMCitati]

Unfortunately even with 3d tracking and face/eyes tracking disabled I get the same results. 
No liveview on BYN and memeory error when double click.

 

[astroman133]

The point of disabling face tracking is to prevent the camera from attempting to autofocus during LiveView. There may be some other LiveView setting in the camera that is preventing LiveView from functioning with BYN.

[AntonioMCitati]

I will run some more test with all possible settings, I also set the AF lever in front to M. but no result.
I tried all settings on the Autofocusing menu and the AF button in from combined with the rollers on top of the camera without result.

Of course there are hundreds of settings on this camera and It would be difficult to test all combinations...

I found a setting where, if lturning on liveview from camera, I control the focus motor of camera from BYN. 

Always if turning on liveview from camera button I can switch it off from BYN.

 

Thank you for your help
 

[AntonioMCitati]

I also tested version 2.1.2 RC2 and same behaviour as 2.1.1 

[reselie]

On 1/24/2021 at 10:58 PM, AntonioMCitati said:

I recently downloaded the 2.1.1 Trial Edition to run some tests, I plan to use it together with TheSkyX, but it appears to be bugged for my camera.

I have found that on my Nikon D780 the LiveView function is not working. 
When pressing the Frame&Focus button I cannot see any image and the log reports a unending list of:

21:32:49  Parameter is not valid.
21:32:50  Parameter is not valid.
21:32:50  Parameter is not valid.
21:32:50  Parameter is not valid.
21:32:50  Parameter is not valid.
21:32:50  Parameter is not valid.
21:32:51  Parameter is not valid.

Camera is set to M, shooting is in S mode. LiveView woks flawlessy on Camera Control Pro 2.

If I press the LiveView button on the camera while BYN Frame&Focus is active, I can see the LiveView image on the camera LCD, and on pressing the LiveView  pause button in BYN the LiveView disappears from the camera LCD, and I can hear the shutter noise. In no case I can manage to see the LiveView on BYN.

Also I have tested the LiveView function on a D7100 and a D90 and with both of their cameras it works very well.

The Snap Image and Loop works well in Frame&Focus and Capture appears to be working without any issues in Imaging.

After snapping an image in Frame&Focus, the Zoom frame is not visible and on double click to move it, I always get an Unhandled exception error (I run Windows 10 professional 64bit with 16Gbytes of RAM), you can see the details on the attached file.
This function works well on other cameras I tested.

Thank you.

Antonio M. Citati

 

 

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I've got exactly the same issue using Premium version and D780.. hope you found a solution after 5 months..

 

[dgold]

Saw this, was wondering if you tried flipping the AF lever on the side of the body to M.  That ought to disable the body from trying any AF.