Hi,
I have made some further experiments with the D800 connection, and I would definetly say there is something fishy with the Nikon camera driver in SGP. My current observations are:
- The connection with my D800 consistently works with all other camera control/download SW I have on the PC, so there seems to be no problem at the USB or Windows levels, at least not for any other programs.
- It is sometimes possible to get the connection to work also from SGP. I have been able to start the connection from the sequence a few times if I have first started SGP and then, as a next step, turned on the camera so that it is detected by Windows. In this case the connection may start (if you are lucky).
- If the connection has been started from SGP I can turn it off and then on again as long as both camera and computers are powered on. If I turn either PC or camera off and then on again, it is seldom possible to make a new connection from SGP.
- The steps in point 2 that may enable a connection work equally well irrespectively if there is an SD card, a CF card or both in the camera. Neither does it matter if the SD or the CF card have been selected as the primary card for the camera. So it is definetly possible to connect to a D800 also with the SD and CF cards in place - but only sometimes and stocastical.
- All the experiments above were performed with no other USB device connected to the computer and via a direct USB cable between camera and PC.
My take is that the Nikon camera driver in SGP has a problem detecting the correct port used by my camera and therfore only by lucky chance sometimes picks the right one. So I am hoping for an update!
Yours,
Rolf Johansson
Huddinge
Sweden