Nikon D700 Shoots Video (basically…) So Can Your Live-View Capable Body
Olivier Giroux has taken the SDK I just posted about and used it to grab frames from the D700’s live preview function!
This means that, presumably and subject to tinkering, any of the bodies supported by the SDK and having Live View functionality can also do the same thing. It’s not full resolution (it’s only what the LCD on the camera body would show), but it’s still remarkably decent.
Here’s an example:
Please see his post for another video and more details.
January 29th, 2009 at 05:37
what language is it? C, C++, .NET?
January 29th, 2009 at 14:51
It’s a set of DLL’s (for Windows, I don’t know mac), so essentially any lang that can interface with a dll.
The sample itself is a vstudio 03 C (don’t recall it being C++ specifically) app.