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Well, so far my conclusion is to drop tethered shooting altogether. It seems very limited and I can see how it will probably just slow me down. It seemed like a brilliant idea but is probably a bit more useful for something like product photography than for my general needs and moving locations. Control My Nikon is very advanced and I spent a lot of time watching instruction videos for different features but the software is too unstable and crashes on my computer with the latest Windows on it. Perhaps when it is updated. Smart Shooter seems a bit cumbersome to use for zooming and navigation and DigiCam Control would have been my favorite for its simplicity, except that the images it displays aren't sharply focused for some reason, and so in other words useless for checking focus. It doesn't help that the computer in question has a horrible screen for determining anything accurately. I think I will focus on the moment and contact with a model instead of tinkering with more cables and buggy software. I simply get too angry with computers that slow me down. But thanks again anyway for brilliant help and suggestions! :)

Lots of great advice here, thanks!! I will check out every one of these options and see which solution is best for me. Perhaps even more than one depending on the situation. I like the remote control idea. For my Fujifilm camera I have an app for my iPad. Never tried such a solution for Nikon but I could have used it yesterday when the model didn't show up and I shot corny 'selfies' for an hour and a half and then went home. I was running back and forth adjusting focus and clicking off timed releases. But it was fun and I need the excercise. :) Thanks again everyone for excellent tips!

Yes, I basically just want to see if I nailed focus so Lightroom isn't neccessary I suppose. The computer in question is a Microsoft Surface Pro 2, which is a device I deeply hate. Bought it for editing on the go and have found it horrible in nearly every way. Still it has Lightroom which people say is handy for shooting tethered, so it simply didn't occurr to me to use anything else. No Hdmi, only USB. But since the answer is that I would have to change the software, then yes, I'll have to try one of the other solutions suggested. I don't thing Camera Control Pro supports my camera. At least it isn't listed among the supported models. But now I know that it isn't a question of a camera setting or something else I have done wrong, so new software it is. :) Thanks a lot for your help!

Hi guys, I tried tethered shooting in a studio yesterday and found it easy to set up with my Nikon DF and Lightroom 5.6. However I was surprised that no images were being recorded to the memory card. They all went into the computer only. The studio computer is not used for editing so it would be a lot better for me to have a copy on my camera's memory card as always. I figure that since you can buy memory cards with built in WiFi (I use a cable) and these cards come in various sizes, then something is supposed to be written to the card. But how? Also Live View didn't work which I would have liked but I suppose that's normal under these circumstances.

My camera store here in Oslo has this listed as producing extremely crisp and detailed images at f1.4. My impression after buying it is that it simply isn't an f1.4 lens in reality as it is unusably muddy at that aperture. I haven't been able to produce any image even under test conditions that give any evidence that the lens can Render anything clear wide open. Nothing like for instance that test image with half an eyebrow in focus. It's not even pleasingly soft, just muddy and riddled with chromatic aberations. At f2 you get very soft details but absurdly the autofocus can't seem to nail it more than once in a while. Tried tuning AF but there really isn't enough detail to work from. At f2.8 you have a usable lens with nice soft falloff. I would have labled it as a 58mm/2.0 and bundled it with a coin since it is a coin toss if something will be in focus or not at f2. But it can never be used wide open, unlike for instance the 85mm/1.4G which is supreme wide open. I wanted a soft 50+ lens but I think the marketing claims of this was down right false. If I had lived in the States I suppose I could have returned it. Here, if you buy it over the counter it is yours forever. So be it. I'm sure I will get some pleasing results with it. But not wide or nearly wide open.