What cord would I need to connect a Nikon D50 to my laptop to capture directly to it?
Posted by admin | Under Nikon D50 Thursday Jul 29, 2010I’ve seen this done with a Hasselblad camera but I don’t know what the cord is called that I need and if they make it for the Nikon D50.
Use the same USB cable that you use to connect your D50 to your laptop for downloading your photos. Then all you need is software, like Nikon Capture 4 and you can use the laptop to control the camera and capture directly into the software.
My son also has a D50 and I’m almost pretty sure there is no tethering software for it. The cable is the same as the one you use for transferring files to and from the computer.
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What you wnat to do is called tethered shooting and it requires the USB cable that came with your camera and a copy of Nikon’s Capture NX software, witch IMHO is over-rated and extremely over-priced. tethered shooting is only good for studio shots IMO, because then you have to transpot a laptop on location as well as a camera
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You’ve got 2 options here.
Use the USB cord and Windows software to shoot tethered. Connect camera to laptop, switch it on. If the Windows file transfer dialogue box pops up, cancel it. Go to My Computer (Windows XP), & look under Cameras & Scanners – there should be an icon for the camera. Double click on it and a blank window opens. On the left hand pane of the window, you can use the computer to activate the shutter button by clicking on Take a Picture (or you can just use the shutter button on the camera!). Images appear as thumbnails in the blank window – click on them to enlarge.
Adobe Lightroom 3 allows tethered shooting too but I’m assuming you don’t have this or want to buy it.
The other way is to use a wireless SD card (the D50 takes an SD card, right?).
http://uk.eye.fi/how-it-works/basics
Its the same as a normal SD card but will also send your images wirelessly as you take them to your computer and/or a social network site. The advantage is that its wireless, so you’re not restricted by a length of USB cable. The downside is that you have to obviously be in a WiFi hotspot for it to work.
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The Nikon UC-E4 cable is the only one I know of for a D50. It should have come with the camera. If you don’t have one you can buy replacements. The PriceGrabber page at the link shows Adorama and B&H photo, both reputable sources.
I don’t know if the D50 is capable of direct capture to a computer. I never tried it with my D50 or with the D80 that replaced it.
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http://computers.pricegrabber.com/cables-adapters/m/5804744/search=Nikon+UC-E4
It needs a standard USB-A to Mini-B USB Cable, and you might already have it.
Nikon sells it for a fair penny, but they’re available from many sources quite inexpensively:
http://www.dcables.net/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=27&gclid=CLDClcb2j5ACFR2SYAod0Ukp4Q
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/?have you already downloaded the software for that particular camera?
if 0not go to nikons web page and look for download file for your model
usb s arent expensive but dirt cheap on the auctions ddepends on how fast you want it done
debbie
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Use the same USB cable that you use to connect your D50 to your laptop for downloading your photos. Then all you need is software, like Nikon Capture 4 and you can use the laptop to control the camera and capture directly into the software.
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