What's new in Helicon Remote 4.4.4
Sep 11, 2023
New in Helicon Remote 4.4.3 (Aug 10, 2023)
New in Helicon Remote 4.4.1 (Apr 21, 2023)
- New cameras supported: Canon R6 II, Canon R50, Sony A1
- Numerous errors fixed
New in Helicon Remote 4.3.1 (Sep 19, 2022)
New in Helicon Remote 3.9.12 (Jan 8, 2021)
- Canon 850D supported
- issues with Nikon D780 support fixed
New in Helicon Remote 3.9.11 (Mar 28, 2020)
- Canon 1D X Mark III supported
- CR3 format supported (CR3 image files will receive proper .cr3 file extension)
New in Helicon Remote 3.9.9 (Aug 6, 2019)
- Canon 250D, Nikon D7500 supported
- Live view zoom / autofocus not working correctly with Canon cameras fixed
- Numerous small internal error fixes and improvements
New in Helicon Remote 3.9.8 (Apr 24, 2019)
- A problem with the application freezing on Windows fixed
- A few other minor errors fixed
New in Helicon Remote 3.9.7 (Aug 17, 2018)
- Wemacro rail detection fixed
- Trinamic stepper motor: incorrect step size fixed
- Wireless operation problem with recent Canon bodies fixed
- Potential Nikon BULB shooting bug fixed
- Live view image flip option added (horizontal / vertical)
- Photo browser improvements
New in Helicon Remote 3.9.5 (May 11, 2018)
- Canon 1500D and 3000D support added
- Support for the new revision of the Wemacro macro rail added
- Issues with live view zoom and autofocus fixed
- Image browser usability, stability and performance improvements
- Occasional crashes on macOS fixed
New in Helicon Remote 3.9.1 (Oct 25, 2017)
- Fixed live view not being displayed during video recording
- Fixed the program's inability to detect Nikon Df on Mac
- Fixed program activation on Windows
New in Helicon Remote 3.9.0 (Sep 23, 2017)
- New cameras supported: Canon 77D, 800D, 200D, 6D Mark II; Nikon D850, D7500
- Support for Wemacro macro rail
- High DPI support for Mac (text no longer looks pixelated or blurred on retina displays)
- The program now correctly handles being displays with different scaling factors - it respect the settings for the specific monitor the program window currently resides on
- Numerous bug fixes and small improvements
New in Helicon Remote 3.8.4 (Feb 10, 2017)
- White balance color temperature setting fixed for all new Nikon cameras (D800/D810, D4, D7200 etc.)
New in Helicon Remote 3.8.3 (Feb 10, 2017)
- Time lapse UI problems fixed (for instance, time until the end of shooting wasn't being updated properly)
New in Helicon Remote 3.8.2 (Jan 25, 2017)
- Burst (continuous) shooting errors with Nikon cameras fixed
- Nikon D7200 WB color temperature option support fixed
- Nikon D5600 support added
- Odd behavior when manually entering the number of shots or interval fixed
- Time lapse bugs fixed (remaining time, total time calculation)
New in Helicon Remote 3.8.1 (Jan 25, 2017)
- Fixed the occasional "Procedure entry point not found" error on Windows
New in Helicon Remote 3.8.0 (Jan 25, 2017)
- Canon 5D Mark IV supported
- Fixed an error that occurred with Nikon cameras when shooting RAW+JPEG while images were being saved to memory cards and the cards were set to RAW/JPEG division mode
- A few more minor bugs fixed
New in Helicon Remote 3.7.3 (Jan 25, 2017)
- Nikon D500 and D5 issues fixed: shooting; list of image qualities; ISO values
- Nikon D4S ISO values fixed
New in Helicon Remote 3.7.2 (Jan 25, 2017)
- Fixed the live view zoom issue with Nikon D500 and D5
- Grid display fixed
- Canon 80D and 1D X Mk II issue fixed
- Fixed the erroneous "Memory card is missing" message with Nikon D5100 and possibly other Nikon cameras
New in Helicon Remote 3.7.0 (Jan 25, 2017)
- Fixed occasional corruption of the live view image that occurred on some computers
- New Canon cameras supported: 80D, 1300D, 1DX Mk II
- New Nikon cameras supported: 5D, 500D
- Various small bugs fixed
New in Helicon Remote 3.6.5 (Jan 19, 2016)
- Fixed a problem with downloading images after a shot with a Canon camera
New in Helicon Remote 3.6.4 (Jan 8, 2016)
- Fixed the video recording problem with some Nikon cameras (D5200, D5300, D5500, D7100, D7200)
- Fixed the occasional ssleay.dll / libeay.dll error message in Windows
New in Helicon Remote 3.6.3 (Dec 28, 2015)
- Fixed BULB shooting errors with Nikon cameras
- Numerous smaller bug fixes
New in Helicon Remote 3.6.2 (Jun 22, 2015)
- Canon 5DS support.
- Fixed a problem with saving images when the camera is set to JPEG + RAW, and one format is left in the camera while the other is moved to the computer.
New in Helicon Remote 3.6.1 (Jun 12, 2015)
- New cameras supported:
- Canon 750D (T6i, kiss x8i), 760D (T6s, 8000D);
- Nikon D810A.
- New feature: motion trigger. Analyzes the live view image (or the image from your Android device's camera) and detects motion in the specified zone of the image. Takes a shot when motion is detected. The sensitivity is adjustable. Enable the feature via menu -> Tools -> Events on Windows / Mac; Tools panel -> Events on Android.
- DOF calculator: interval calculation formula modified to account for focal length correctly. The correction factor you used to use is now obsolete and must be re-adjusted!
- Canon: BULB shooting bugfix for 5D Mk II, 7D, 1D Mk IV.
- Canon: multiple MLU bugfixes for Canon cameras when shooting with live view turned off.
- Canon: smartphone mode support for Canon cameras with Wi-Fi.
- Canon: fixed continuous shooting mode handling:
- the camera will no longer take 2 shots instead of 1 if continuous mode was set in the camera body;
- the program will restore the user's shooting mode after taking any shots - be it single or continuous;
- added support for silent shooting modes.
- Canon: fixed handling of errors that occur during shooting.
- Lots of internal errors fixed, including some that could lead to crashes.
- Windows / Mac: fixed a rare crash upon program launch.
- Android: new feature - audio trigger. Analyzes the sound from your device's built-in microphone, detects spikes ands triggers a shot when user-adjustable threshold is exceeded.
- Android: fixed missing button in the "Camera error" message, so that the message can be closed and you can continue working with the app. Enable the feature via Tools panel -> Events.
- Android: other minor UI fixes.
New in Helicon Remote 3.5.1 (Apr 10, 2015)
New in Helicon Remote 3.5.0 (Apr 7, 2015)
- Support for new cameras:
- Canon 7D Mark II
- Nikon D5500
- Nikon D7200
- Support for the new Trinamic motors with built-in USB interface (PD42-1141)
- Numerous internal bug fixes
New in Helicon Remote 3.4.10 (Nov 26, 2014)
- Nikon D750 support: live view image is now visible, live view zoom works
- Preliminary Stackshot 3X support (single axis only)
- Fixed an issue with live view zoom and autofocus for Nikon D5200, D5300, D4S, Df
- Fixed several issues with the current position indicator in the Focus Bracketing panel
- Minor bugfixes
New in Helicon Remote 3.4.8 (Sep 26, 2014)
- Fixed a problem with updating the live view area on Windows XP
New in Helicon Remote 3.4.7 (Sep 22, 2014)
- Nikon D4S live view zoom error fixed
New in Helicon Remote 3.4.6 (Sep 17, 2014)
- Fast preview / image review now works properly when live view is off
- Connection to network cameras now occurs much faster (less time between clicking the camera in the list and being able to work with it)
- Canon cameras can now shoot without a memory card in Wi-Fi mode.
New in Helicon Remote 3.4.5 (Sep 16, 2014)
- Nikon D810 live view zoom error fixed
New in Helicon Remote 3.4.4 (Sep 15, 2014)
- Fixed a problem that made Remote non-functional with Nikon D4S
New in Helicon Remote 3.4.3 (Sep 15, 2014)
- Nikon D810 and D7100 live view zoom issue fixed
- Minor internal bugfixes
- Live view display mode setting now works
New in Helicon Remote 3.4.2 (Sep 8, 2014)
- Fixed an error in the bug reporting tool that rendered bug reports near useless
New in Helicon Remote 3.4.1 (Sep 8, 2014)
- Improvements:
- Experimental D810 support. Please report any issues
- Time lapse tool is re-implemented: you can now choose to enable or disable focus and exposure bracketing; time between shots is now in fact the time between shots, not between end of one shot and start of the next as it used to be. Each shot takes at least a couple seconds to shoot, and total shooting time is now calculated to account for that
- You can now control live view exposure simulation from Remote (with all supported Canon cameras and Nikon cameras that have this feature - D800, D600, D610, D4...). You will find in the Tools -> Live view menu on Mac / Windows, Live View panel on Android
- Fixes:
- All operating systems: MLU status is now properly detected on new Canon cameras (1D Mk IV, 70D and probably some others as well)
- All operating systems: Nikon burst FPS measurement halt fixed
- All operating systems: fixed missing ISO values with new generation Canon cameras (6D ans such)
- Android: registration dialog now fits the screen on phones (buttons may not have been visible previously)
- All operating systems: numerous minor fixes
New in Helicon Remote 3.3.7 (Sep 8, 2014)
- Fixed inability to save images with Canon cameras (which appeared in 3.3.6)
New in Helicon Remote 3.3.6 (May 12, 2014)
- Fixed failure to detect memory cards on Nikon cameras with more than one memory card slot
New in Helicon Remote 3.3.5 (May 12, 2014)
- Fixed a focus movement issue, minor burst bracketing improvements
New in Helicon Remote 3.3.1 (May 7, 2014)
- New feature - burst bracketing (combining continuous Stackshot movement with burst shooting to shoot focus stacks rapidly - in a matter of seconds)
- Nikon D4s and Canon 1200D support
- Numerous bugs fixed
New in Helicon Remote 3.2.7 (May 7, 2014)
- Fixed the message "Camera cannot shoot..." being shown erroneously
- Fixed the problem with Auto focus bracketing mode not working with Canon cameras when the images are not copied to computer
- Minor shooting speed improvement (slightly less delays between shots)
New in Helicon Remote 3.2.6 (May 7, 2014)
- Bugfix for a focus bracketing problem introduced in 3.2.5
New in Helicon Remote 3.2.5 (May 7, 2014)
- Fixed the message "Camera cannot shoot..." being shown erroneously
- Fixed the problem with Auto focus bracketing mode not working with Canon cameras when the images are not copied to computer
New in Helicon Remote 3.2.4 (Jan 25, 2014)
- Color temperature setting fixed for Canon cameras, camera detection issue on Windows XP solved
New in Helicon Remote 3.2.3 (Jan 13, 2014)
- Fixed live view zoom / AF issue with Nikon D610 and D7100. Added new folder and image file naming templates - [stack_counter] and [file_counter]. These counters are persistent and survive program restart; they can only be reset manually
New in Helicon Remote 3.2.2 (Jan 10, 2014)
- Remote should now work properly with old graphics adapters on Windows
New in Helicon Remote 3.2.1 (Jan 9, 2014)
- Mirror-lock up is now properly detected for Canon cameras
New in Helicon Remote 3.2.0 (Dec 20, 2013)
- Improved live view performance
- Nikon D610 support, Nikon D5300 support
- Various bug fixes
New in Helicon Remote 3.1.2 (Oct 8, 2013)
- New feature: live view brightness boost for dark shooting conditions (accessible from settings -> Interface)
- Fixed error with saving and restoring settings
New in Helicon Remote 3.1.1 (Oct 4, 2013)
New in Helicon Remote 3.1.0 (Sep 25, 2013)
- Canon 70D support added
- Digital signature issues on Windows 7 and 8 has been resolved
- Numerous errors fixed
New in Helicon Remote 3.0.1 (Aug 7, 2013)
- Recording video with Canon 550D and shooting with BULB exposure with Canon 5D Mk III fixed
- Fixed a rare error making Nikon D800 and similar / later cameras completely non-functional due to specific combination of body settings
- Also fixed an issue with interval between shots changing unexpectedly
New in Helicon Remote 3.0.0 (Aug 1, 2013)
- Ability to work with network cameras added (Canon 6D, Canon WFT, Nikon WT modules)
- Image review after shooting
- Support for Canon 700D
New in Helicon Remote 2.6.5 (Apr 2, 2013)