Tethering Nikon D5200: I have a D5200, I wish to tether it to my laptop. I am running Windows 8 Lightroom 5.7. With the camera connected, and I did double checked my connections...

MikeWadd Loc: Bristol, TN.

I have a D5200, I wish to tether it to my laptop. I am running Windows 8 Lightroom 5.7. With the camera connected, and I did double checked my connections, computer and camera turned on When I click "Start Tethering" I get a "No camera detected."
Where did I go wrong? Am I going to have to buy Nikon's software?

Thanks
Mike

GoofyNewfie Loc: Kansas City

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BooIsMyCat Loc: Somewhere

MikeWadd wrote:

I have a D5200, I wish to tether it to my laptop. I am running Windows 8 Lightroom 5.7. With the camera connected, and I did double checked my connections, computer and camera turned on When I click "Start Tethering" I get a "No camera detected."
Where did I go wrong? Am I going to have to buy Nikon's software?

Thanks
Mike

No camera detected usually indicates a bad or missing driver for the connection. If you have your SD card in your camera and connected to your computer, can you see the SD card listed under Explorer? Can you see the files on that SD card using Explorer?
Might try reloading the software that came with your camera.

Searcher Loc: Kent, England

MikeWadd wrote:

I have a D5200, I wish to tether it to my laptop. I am running Windows 8 Lightroom 5.7. With the camera connected, and I did double checked my connections, computer and camera turned on When I click "Start Tethering" I get a "No camera detected."
Where did I go wrong? Am I going to have to buy Nikon's software?

Thanks
Mike

This link will show the tethering trouble shooter, I hope it helps.

http://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom/kb/troubleshoot-tethered-capture-lightroom-4.html

georgevedwards Loc: Essex, Maryland.

I think I have this wrong...tethering is about taking photos using the laptop as a monitor/controller? What is tethering? I thought tether referred to using a cable from camera to computer. Not: You should have got "View NX2" software on a disc with your camera. Nikon had "nef" extension on their raw files that was not recognized with some other programs, but jpg should be. I download first sometimes by going to "Computer" and clicking on the icon that says camera and just transfer the pics to a folder on the computer. Then access them there for Adobe programs.

MikeWadd wrote:

I have a D5200, I wish to tether it to my laptop. I am running Windows 8 Lightroom 5.7. With the camera connected, and I did double checked my connections, computer and camera turned on When I click "Start Tethering" I get a "No camera detected."
Where did I go wrong? Am I going to have to buy Nikon's software?

Thanks
Mike

MikeWadd Loc: Bristol, TN.

Thanks for the link. But noting there I had not already done. Called Nikon and
their answer was to buy their software. Thanks again

NKshooter Loc: S. WI

MikeWadd wrote:

I have a D5200, I wish to tether it to my laptop. I am running Windows 8 Lightroom 5.7. With the camera connected, and I did double checked my connections, computer and camera turned on When I click "Start Tethering" I get a "No camera detected."
Where did I go wrong? Am I going to have to buy Nikon's software?

Thanks
Mike

I had that problem when setting up my D90 to LR. After much head-scratching it turned out to be the tether cable. I had bought a longer tether online that wouldn't work, tried the stock cable & it worked fine. I then tried another longer cable with success.

Clem8a Loc: Ohio

I had a similar problem with my D5100. My solution turned out to be:

1. Going to the File menu / Plug-in-manager.
2. In the list on the left, find Nikon tether plugin.
3. Click in that item and click on Enable
4. Should get a green indicator next to "Nikon tether plug-in.

That is what worked for Me.

LoneRangeFinder Loc: Left field

BooIsMyCat wrote:

No camera detected usually indicates a bad or missing driver for the connection. If you have your SD card in your camera and connected to your computer, can you see the SD card listed under Explorer? Can you see the files on that SD card using Explorer?
Might try reloading the software that came with your camera.

Is your camera supported by this tethering software?

MtnMan Loc: ID

Just got a D5300 this week. This isn't what you want but thought I'd mention that hooking it's WIFI to my Android phone worked the first time. That might be the first time that ever happened to me. It gave me a message that it wasn't working and then worked fine.