Q: Nikon D800E connection issue with OSx Maverick
Hi All.
I'm experiencing a connection problem with the Nikon D800E camera and the OSx installation on my iMac.
I bought the iMac 27" late 2012 with maxed out specs.. this was to support photo editing of the NEF files fromt the Nikon D800E camera.
In the beggining I experienced an issue when I tried to import the photos from the camera to Lightroom, the issue was that the import worked for about 5 photos and then it got diconnected.. I had to restart the camera if I wanted to continue with the import.
After a while I got annoyed and started to look for others with the same problem online.. most solutions suggested to use a card reader instead...
Well said and done i got a card reader.. this worked excellent.. the photo editing works like a charm.. and everything is great..
Until yesterday.. i bought a program that helps you woth the finadjusting of the autofocus on the different lenses... this requierd to connect the camera with a tether USB3 cable so the program could control setting in the camera take pictures and analyze the photos and do adjustments... this is great.. except that I got reminded of the connection issue... the camera disconnects after a few minutes and the it requires a restart to bring up the connection again...
After several hours of testing I got fed up.. so this is what I did:
Without touching the tether cable and the camera I rebooted the iMac to a Windows 7 partition and installed the same software to adjust the autofocus.. and it worked like a charm... so the issue is clarely not on the Nikon side?? or... there is a incompability problem here...
This means that I cannot use the tehter functionality from the maverick partition as it cannot keep the connection alive with the camera.. so working tethered is currently out of the question??
So has anyone else experienced this same issue??
I really don't want to use windows for the photography tasks i do.. the ONLY reason I created the dual boot is to be able to play games... nothing else..
Hope someone can help..
///David
iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1), Nikon D800E, connectivity problems
Posted on Jan 24, 2014 6:22 AM