Importing from Nikon Z6 via USB
Hi All,
I'm a Windows 10 Pro 64 user, got C1 a few weeks ago and, being a long time LR user, still trying to get around a few things that I don't fully understand.
Importing from camera is one of such things, and I wonder if this behaviour is as per design or I'm doing something wrong.
I always used to import photos from camera via USB cable. Just find it easier than fiddling with memory cards, plus camera's battery charges when I keep it connected, so don't have to worry about remembering about that. Long story, short, C1 doesn't see my Nikon as an import source. It's just not there in the when I open Import dialog, press the little down arrow next to the folder name and select "Choose folder...". C1 opens the Windows folder selection window, but Z6 is missing. If I open another Explorer window next to it, I can see my Z6 device and all the photos.
Would you be able to advise if this is how it works and using card reader is the only option or there's something wrong with my setup?
BTW: C1 works just fine in USB tethering mode with the same setup.
Thanks!
Tomasz
I'm a Windows 10 Pro 64 user, got C1 a few weeks ago and, being a long time LR user, still trying to get around a few things that I don't fully understand.
Importing from camera is one of such things, and I wonder if this behaviour is as per design or I'm doing something wrong.
I always used to import photos from camera via USB cable. Just find it easier than fiddling with memory cards, plus camera's battery charges when I keep it connected, so don't have to worry about remembering about that. Long story, short, C1 doesn't see my Nikon as an import source. It's just not there in the when I open Import dialog, press the little down arrow next to the folder name and select "Choose folder...". C1 opens the Windows folder selection window, but Z6 is missing. If I open another Explorer window next to it, I can see my Z6 device and all the photos.
Would you be able to advise if this is how it works and using card reader is the only option or there's something wrong with my setup?
BTW: C1 works just fine in USB tethering mode with the same setup.
Thanks!
Tomasz
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What kind of camera did you successfully import from in the past? Generally speaking, Capture One doesn't do that. (With the exception of a few models for which it is supported.) As you see, it will happily tether though.
You have two options.
(1) Use a card reader.
(2) Connect with your cable, but don't directly import into Capture One. On this method you would move the images from the camera outside of Capture One then import to Capture One from wherever you have put them.
I'd say a card reader is the easiest, but I know that some users prefer method (2).
Ian0 -
It seems entirely camera-specific, and down to the camera manufacturer rather than to Capture One, as to whether it will work.
I generally import via a card reader (which I don't find "fiddly" at all), but in response to another thread I've just tested my new Olympus E-M1X, and I can move files directly into Capture One without issues - but the camera gives me an explicit choice of the kind of connection I'm making with my computer: by setting it to "Storage", Capture One can see the camera as a drive.
Other in-camera settings render the Olympus invisible to Capture One. And of course, none of my Canon cameras are visible as storage to Capture One.0 -
Keith Reeder wrote:
Same for me but everyone has his own habits.
I generally import via a card reader (which I don't find "fiddly" at all)
And as with Keith, I can also directly import from my Sony (A7RII) into C1 if I explicitly set USB to mass storage in the camera and if it is set to Auto, the camera automatically changes it to mass storage when connecting to the PC. I would be surprised if C1 would not recognize the Z6 with the appropriate USB settings.0 -
Okular wrote:
Same for me but everyone has his own habits.
True, but it's generally a "mindset" thing than any sort of real ergonomic or logistical barrier, and I'm all for taking the path of least resistance - which is generally just to use a card-reader.0 -
Okular wrote:
I can also directly import from my Sony (A7RII) into C1 if I explicitly set USB to mass storage in the camera and if it is set to Auto, the camera automatically changes it to mass storage when connecting to the PC
I've been through the Z6 Reference Manual, and unfortunately no such option seems to exist.
In that regard, it seems like my Canon M6 Mk II - that doesn't work either, and to be fair, there's nothing in its manual to suggest it would.
Unlike the Oly E-M1X user manual - which specifically covers off how to import files from camera to computer without using the camera manufacturer's proprietary software - both the Nikon and Canon manuals only discuss that approach.
So...I would be surprised if C1 would not recognize the Z6 with the appropriate USB settings.
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Thanks for all the responses, looks like it's how it works with my Nikon Z6 and the problem seems to be on C1 side, as I can still import directly from the camera to Lightroom and also Windows does see the camera photo storage.
I have a docking station with the power supply big enough to charge my laptop and camera, so I'm routinely have it connected via USB cable and then in LR I could just switch the Nikon on to begin import. So card reader it is 😊
Cheers!
Tomasz0 -
I have the exact same problem the original poster has. Lightroom happily imported Z6 files, but C1 refuses to see the camera in the import dialog (all the regular drives with drive letters like C: or F: are visible). I imagine that this is a simple matter of C1 having a wrong OpenFileDialog parameter in the code. (Not being a Windows programmer, I'm not familiar with the API though).
Tethering seems to work though - however if it's enabled, the moment C1 is launched the Windows file system no longer sees the Nikon Z6 as a device with a file system, and if it's folder is opened on Windows, the folder window will close. Weird.
Anyhow, at the moment I have to import by using the filesystem and then re-import using the C1 import tool. Hardly optimal.
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I can't believe it again, the second task I tried to do and boom, not allowed! Even basic softwares on my iPad allows me to do that. What kind of software developers are you hiring? Let's find out the next thing which is not possible.
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Yeah, that's the attitude that will get you help here, Ricardo...
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