Nikon camera acquisition and control using matlab?

I just bought a telescope and was wondering has anyone tried and/or have success with using Matlab to acquire data from a Nikon DSLR camera? I have a Nikon D7000 and I was hoping to use the home version of matlab + any toolboxes to get either the live view and/or send commands to the camera. There are some software that I found that does an adequate job but no complete suite that also does commands to the motorized gimbal and custom processing on the fly. If it is possible i'd like to create an application to acquire, process, control the gimbal, and anything else that i may think of.

Answer 1

[jrtowers]

Hi Joseph,

I have used CCD cameras before with MATLAB, but not the particular camera you mentioned. I used Image Acquisition or Instrument Control Tool Boxes. I just bought a telescope as well and I am planning to control it, as well as acquiring images with MATLAB.

JR

Answer 2

[ScienceDude1990]

This might be a little late, but I made up a tutorial on how to control a Nikon D3100. You might be able to control the D7000 the same way?

https://hackaday.io/project/176167-remote-control-and-image-retrieval-from-nikon-dslr

Cheers!