Nikon has released the free Nikon D700 upgrade of its Nikon Control Pro to version 2.2.0.

This is a free upgrade & Camera Control Pro ver 2.0.0 or ver 2.1.0 must be installed before running this updater.

Nikon has released this upgrade both for Windows & Apple Mac.

You can download the free Nikon D700 Upgrade for Apple Mac & Windows computers.

Here are the modifications that Nikon has listed that the Upgrade to Control Pro ver 2.2.0 will bring in:

• Support for the D700 has been added.
• Support for Mac OS version 10.5.3 has been added.
• Support for the following new features, added to the D3 firmware ver.1.10 and ver.2.00, has been added:
• • Vignette Control
  • Copyright information settings.
  • Custom settings – A Focus point brightness item has been added to the a6: Focus point illumination setting.
• The following changes have been made to f4: Assign FUNC. Button > FUNC. button + dials, f5:Assign preview button > Preview + command dials, and f6: Assign AE-L/AF-L + command dials menus in Custom Settings.
• • The Choose image area option has been separated into two options, Choose image area (FX / DX / 5:4) and Choose image area (FX / DX).
  • A new Shooting Menu bank option has been added.
• Multiple images can now be selected in the Viewer for simultaneous deletion.
• When the Live View window is opened, Live View window is now automatically initiated.
• When shooting in Live View mode, operation now automatically returns to Live View mode after images are transferred to the computer.
• When images captured in the Adobe RGB color space were displayed in the Viewer, they did not reflect accurate hues. This issue has been resolved.
• An issue that prevented accurate display of highlight portions in the Edit Camera Curves dialog sample image has been resolved.
• When Auto-bracketing was enabled with Time Lapse Photography dialog, fewer images than the number of shots specified were captured. This issue has been resolved.

There are free downloading & upgrading instructions available too, for Windows & Apple Mac computers.

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