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No, you can't use your $6,299.00 Camera as a Webcam. That will be $5 – Roman Zipp (romanzipp.com)
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[–] Grimm665@lemm.ee 82 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

I found a way to use my old Nikon as a webcam using an HDMI capture card. Hooked it up to the camera's mini HDMI port and wham! had a working webcam!

But after thirty minutes, it would always switch off the live view, so i was left with a camera feed of the menus. Turns out this is an import restriction so it can be imported as a "still camera" and not a "movie camera" for significantly less taxes.

Enter some wonderful soul who found a way to hack the firmware to allow live view to stay on continuously, so now it works great as a webcam!

[–] olympicyes@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

The limit is only true if you’re also recording to internal memory. My understanding is that it’s a European Union issue that we all have to suffer for.

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 hours ago

That understanding is untrue, it was actually an internationally agreed upon tariff by the WTO. It has since been repealed though, so cameras built after 2019, or ones that have had a firmware update since then, no longer have the limit.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 4 points 17 hours ago

I have a D3000.

Literally the last DSLR to be made without a live view ... if it wasn't for bad luck I wouldn't have any.