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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!
I hope you've paid the difference in taxes for a video camera.
Why? A material change was made to the item after the point of import. This would be like taxing a timber importer as though they were importing furniture.
ffs people, they weren't serious, they were pointing out how stupid the tax was.
Why? The thing is a webcam now.
wooosh
Double woooosh
ah, i've been suckered, bamboozled, and some might even say hornswoggled!
Lmao these fuckin people can’t take a joke.
Made me laugh.
I hope you've paid the difference in taxes for a comedian.
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.
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.
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 It has since been repealed though, so cameras built after 2019, or ones that have had a firmware update since then, no longer have the limit.
I’m going off my experience running an 18 hour livestream over HDMI with my 2015 Nikon dslr.