D3300 as Webcam...

I just downloaded digiCamControl which is going to be extremely helpful.


A quick question: does anyone know how I can use our Nikon D3300 as a webcam on our Windows 10 PC?


I can see the image from the lens using Lv mode, but I can't figure out how to access this image on the webcam menu.
Thanks in advance for your help!!

Welcome to the forum,you need to check to see if the camera can out put live video,i have a feeling it cant,only stuff from the card.

@mike - Thanks for the quick reply.

The D3300 can put out live video via the USB port, as I can see this on the PC screen when using the Lv mode on the digiCamControl application on the PC. In addition, the camera has a live video output via the HDMI port. The challenge is that I can't figure out how to make either of these ]function as a webcam source on the PC.

Any thoughts?

Thanks!!

Firstly, welcome to the forums.

Thanks for your post as I wasn't aware of digiCamControl. The software uses Microsoft's NET framework to operate. I suspect that for Windows 10 to natively 'see' the D3300 as a video device, as opposed to a USB storage device, requires an OS driver. As far as I know, no such driver exists.

After a quick play with it, digiCamControl seems to do everything a webcam can. What exactly are you trying to do?

YEah, was poking around too - want to use my D3300 as a camera for MonkeyJam free animation software. It requires the camera have a DirectShow driver (e.g. like a webcam or a miniDV camera) but I haven't been able to find one.

Right now I'm using DigiCamControl as a monitor so that I can take pictures without being near the camera. It auto copies images which I can then import into MonkeyJam for editing.