Got tired of the never ending task of going to panels>perspective>select camera so wrote a little python script for it instead.
This one creates a window that lists all the cameras in the scene and allows you to jump between them by simply selecting them in the window. Great time saver.
## ## listCameras ## ------------- ## 18 oct 2009 ## Jan-Erik "Jonne" Östman (jonne@jonne.net) ## ## www.jonne.net ## ## Description: ## ------------ ## PYTHON script for creating a list of cameras in the scene ## ## ## Instructions: ## ------------- ## Creates a window that lists all the current cameras in the scene. ## Simply click the desired camera to look through it. ## ## ------------------------------------------------------------------------- import maya.cmds as mc def lookThruSelectedCam(): selectedCamera = mc.textScrollList ('cameraList', q=1,si=1) mc.lookThru('perspView', selectedCamera) def getCameras(): cams = mc.listCameras(p=1) return cams ## Check for existing window windowName = 'camListWin' if (mc.window(windowName, exists=True)): mc.deleteUI(windowName, window=True) ## Create window and scrollist mc.window( windowName, title="Cam list", widthHeight=(80, 150) ) mc.paneLayout() mc.textScrollList( 'cameraList', numberOfRows=8, allowMultiSelection=0, append=getCameras(), selectCommand=lookThruSelectedCam ) mc.showWindow()