Nikon d90 in LabView

Hi All,
We usually run a couple of ethernet cameras into our labview program. We've bought a Nikon D90 SLR though, and I'm trying to see if it's possible to have image acquisition on LabView via either the firewire or USB cables...
Any ideas?

Dear Paul,
we do manufacture special scanners for museum/library www.metis-digital.com. I write most of the software in Labview, sometimes using NI-IMAQ and NI Vision and sometime using a special set of imaging VI which I wrote in C++ during several years.
We do have two lines of products (and software).
A) High cost Professional planetary scanner up to the 2A0 format. They integrate our own designed camera-link camera and we use a NI-1426 frame grabber and NI vision software (for which we have to purchase a license for every run-time we distribute). I anyway also use some of my imaging VI here because they are generally faster compared to NI. Futhermore some NI imaging VIs are buggy and nobody noticed since Labview 7.11 !
B) Low cost Semi-professional planetary  scanner up to the A1 format based on a Canon DLSR camera. I had to write most of the imaging library used in this scanner/software because we cannot add the NI Vision RUN-Time cost to the scanner price. Still use some imaging VI from the available ones in Labview (Vision Common resources). So, no NI-IMAQ or Vision here, and the integration of the Canon camera into Labview was done using a third part ActiveX module (TCamRemote). 
We want now to integrate a Nikon camera into the existing line of scanners (B). But we cannot find a Labview compatible driver or ActiveX or .NET wrapper of the Nikon SDK. I guess we just have to write our own wrapper... 
Why did you ask ? Do you have any idea that could help us integrating the Nikon SDK (not just file transfer but the whole functionality of course) ?
Best regards
Massimo Colagrande

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