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Features
- Take control of your photography-remotely.
- Compatible with all D-series SLR models, Nikon Camera Control Pro duplicates many of your camera functions right on your computer's screen.
- Works via USB or FireWire or wirelessly with the optional WT-2A (D2Hs, D2X, D2XS,) WT-3A (D200) and WT-4A (D3, D300) Wi-Fi adapters
- Most settings of Nikon digital SLRs, that are connected via USB cable, can be controlled remotely from a computer.
- Wired or wireless LAN is available when using a wireless transmitter
- In addition to direct transfer of images from a camera to a computer, all procedures from shooting to saving images are smoothly processed.
Product Description
Camera Control Pro software enables simplified remote control of many Nikon digital SLR functions from a personal computer, and includes advanced features such as "Viewer" that provide substantial improvements in operation. Includes Software CD-ROM User Guide.SimilarProduct
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Customer reviews
Outstanding! 
by .. Duane Weikum (Oakland, CA)
Camera Control Pro 2 is a big step up from the previous version, it's much faster and more robust.
I use this product every day in my studio, shooting product photos, and there is nothing like the immediate feedback of seeing the pic in high-res on my monitor. If you have never shot tethered, you are missing out.
The $150 I spent on this product was a great investment! It paid for itself with the first photo session after installing it. I could NEVER go back to swapping mem cards to see what I was getting.
Considering I use this product every day, I find the cost of it negligible. Sure, it would be nice if Nikon would just give this away with every camera body sold...it would be nice if they gave away Circular Polarizers with every lens too. Hell, it would be nice if they threw in the AC Power Adapter for my camera also, but that's the way it goes.
All things considered, I'm a very satisfied Nikon owner.
Camera Control Pro by .. carl (st louis mo)
This is the only way to shoot in studio situations. Live view would be even better but i use a D200 right now. Still, to see what you are doing on a laptop instead of twiddling the camera is great. Also you can run longer on a set of batteries if you don't use the screen. Third you dont mess up your camera setup by touching it between shots. This is great for product or still life.
The reason it's not included with the camera is that not everybody wants it or needs it, so why would they want to pay for it.
Bulb exposure is possible by the way, but you need the remote control to do it.
it's also useful for setting camera defaults and time etc. By all means, if you do studio or controlled shooting, it is a most useful tool.
By the way, it allows you to shoot direct to the computer without using cards in the camera.
Just shoot, and burn to disc while the customer is looking at the shots, perfect results and you are done. no post process etc. it's great.
carl
Camera Control Pro 2 by .. Wendy Palmer (Hummelstown, PA)
It works fantastically well! Really nice to be able to see image on laptop as I shoot tethered. Also, I save the images onto a Rugged Lacie external hard drive, so it makes it easy afterwards to review images on my desktop computer.
View images on your laptop as you take them! by .. Dan J. Cheever (Cheyenne, WY)
This program is really slick. If a client wishes to see images, you can show them right on the spot - that way you can make adjustments on the job so you and your customer know what they want and are getting. You can also set it up to save your images to your hard drive as you shoot so you have redundancy for added peace of mind. I use this program with my D300 and it works flawlessly.
Excellent software but... 
by .. Paul T. Stewart (Hendersonville, TN USA)
I wasn't sure about this. I shoot portraiture photography and have seen how other similar software, Leaf Capture and Canon's Remote Capture performs. What captured my interest (pardon the pun) was of course the advantage of being able to see the images on PC immediately. To finally have the ability to verify 100% of the time that focus, exposure, lighting, and of course composition were all the way I wanted them.....which means great shots all the time, ditching the bad ones immediately, and little to no time in post processing.
The Leaf and Canon software I have seen in use ran very fast which is absolutely important here. How useful would any of this be if when shooting tethered to the PC the pictures started stacking up or heaven forbid froze the computer?
So I downloaded a trial copy from Nikon first. I am pleased to say it runs fast. Previews pop up on screen in no more than one second, even when shooting tif on my D300 which are 35MB files. What pleased me even more is that it ran equally fast on my notebook computer which does not have near the processor or graphics power of my desktop PC.
You are managing 3 windows when working with your camera tethered to the PC. There is a preview window that is resizable showing the images very quickly. It can be configured for different magnifications, single frame view or filmstrip view. A second, smaller, window shows a histogram and download status of the files as they are coming in. The third window is a camera control window that allows remote triggering and access to all on camera settings and menus. If you have a Nikon D3 or D300 you can also work in Live View on screen in both the handheld and tripod modes. Finally found a use for the Live View I suppose; which up until now I have found to be an extremely over hyped useless feature on the new Nikons.
So........what's the "but" all about in the title of my review you ask? Leaf and Canon give their remote capture software to their customers when they lay out thousands of dollars. This seems to be a notion that Nikon hasn't seen fit to subscribe to, yet.
So that is my complaint. I can really use this software or I would never have purchased it. It performs very good and is very useful, but Nikon customers should not have to purchase something like this after they laid down 2000 to 5000 dollars for a camera.
Paul Stewart
Hendersonville, TN