Re: Nikon D3300 inconsistent behaviour [ all images are black ]

Hi,

On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 12:22:09PM -0400, Craig Pickard wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have several Nikon D3300 hundreds. I'm running them on RPis running
> Raspian Stretch Lite with libgphoto 2.5.18 and gphoto 2.5.17.
> 
> They've been working perfectly, however I just created a new OS image and
> reinstalled same versions of libgphoto and gphoto2, and all my images are
> suddenly black.  I've tried reinstalling, and bumping the version to 2.5.19.
> 
> I don't have SD cards and have the capture target set to RAM, which was all
> working perfectly fine before the fresh OS install.
> 
> debug log file when running from the command line is here:
> https://gist.github.com/Craigson/6512b5cba7c5593474f3a46dbffa6996
> 
> Here's the log when using the Nodejs package from NPM:
> https://gist.github.com/Craigson/671aab0a3b1dea9b5ceb6d097ea8d670
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Sorry for late reply...

The camera returns a correct wellformed JPEG image over the wire.

I decoded the hexdump and the image is black here too.


I fear something with your camera is not working correctly, or the lens cap is on or something.


Can you try SD card capture?


Ciao, Marcus

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