This condition was eventually lifted, and eight months after arriving at the camp, Miyatake was issued an ID card as the official concentration camp photographer, allowing him to take pictures at will, and sent for his photographic equipment from his (closed) studio in Los Angeles. He set up a studio at the camp as part of the internee-run Manzanar Consumer Cooperative.
The condition that restricted Miyatake's activities was lifted after eight months at the camp, and he was granted permission to take photographs freely. He established a photography studio within the Manzanar Consumer Cooperative.