Comments on: Tethered shooting in Lightroom

By: mwarf

mwarf — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:19:49 +0000

I created a short video tutorial on tethering Lightroom and my Nikon D300. I hope you find it useful for your readers.

http://www.michaelwarf.com/blog/adobe-lightroom-tethering-tutorial

By: tcphoto

tcphoto — Mon, 05 May 2008 15:37:17 +0000

Now that I have purchased LR1.4.1, I am trying to tether to a 1Ds2. I have been successful using EOS Utility on a Mac running 10.5.1. But when I updated to 10.5.2 the Canon software did not work. The email to Canon resulted in a “We do not support OS10.5″. Can anyone share their success or failures with the current OS?

Thank you,
TC

By: Martin Evening

Martin Evening — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 18:39:43 +0000

Actually, I can reveal now that in version 1.0 the loupe view does now auto refresh when you shoot in tethered mode.

Martin

By: Liveengineer

Liveengineer — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 03:32:12 +0000

Thanks for the info peoples
Using EOS400,Win xp,EOS utility pointing to designated folder and open in program set to none.
LR set to auto import. All works great so far.
Auto refreshing loupe would be nice

Cheers,
Ricky.

By: benanders

benanders — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 20:08:04 +0000

Hi Martin,

Thanks for describing this method of shooting directly into LR. I did have a real struggle to find the Canon Viewer software that you describe. I am shooting with a Canon 5D and I think that the software is not combatible with the 5D. Canon do not give the option to download Canon Viewer for this camera, so I think that we are stuck with Image Browser.

I know this thread is a little old now, however to answer eclic, the following is how I manged to set up shooting tethered with Image Browser on a 5D. This seems to work with my set up and is ultimately very similar to Martin’s steps. Martin I hope you don’t mind me sharing…

Step1
Tether camera and turn camera on.
(Canon camera window will auto open)

Step2
Launch Image Browser
Click the Canon camera icon which will launch Camera Window DSLR
Click remote shooting and then choose/create folder for images to be saved into through the canon software.

Step3
No need to quit any canon software.
Launch LR. – Under Preferences and import, check enable auto import, choose the folder you set up previously in step 1, and also under auto import settings, select a shoot folder within LR. This is where the image will ultimately be saved in. Also set any other meta etc.

I hope this helps.

Cheers,

Ben.

By: Martin Evening

Martin Evening — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 16:31:57 +0000

Have you tried clicking on the Monitor Folder button? This is the option you need for setting a watched folder that lightroom can then auto import from.

Martin

By: eclic

eclic — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 16:14:24 +0000

Hi Martin

I have the EOS Utility 1.1.1 and I have ImageBrowser but I cannot seem to find a way to make a watched folder. I guess I’ll contact Canon tech support. It makes the folder (you set-up in the prefs) after you shoot a frame (that I can monitor in Bridge) but LR seems to need a folder made in advance (the watched folder). Unless I am misunderstanding something about LR. Can LR watch and update a premade folder like Bridge can? Any chance LR will find a way to bypass using the camera manufacturers applications so we can tether directly to LR?

Thanks,
Edward

By: Martin Evening

Martin Evening — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 15:54:10 +0000

I can’t remember exactly where EOS Utility is located, but it is freely available on Canon’s website. I have not described EOS Viewer here, but have used it successfully with the EOS 400D camera. Try doing a more general web search.

Martin

By: eclic

eclic — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 15:30:04 +0000

I have a Canon 5D and I’ve been using demo versions of Capture One to tether and it usually works great (MacBookPro). Connecting, setting up new shots and file naming is very easy. But I feel the processing is limited especially because C1Pro doesn’t have HSL tuning like Lightroom and now Bridge CS3.

I sometime use the Canon utility and view incoming files in Bridge – then open files in Camera Raw and save new default settings to set WB, exp, curves, etc. I tried to follow the method above but I do not have EOS Viewer – I don’t see it on Canon’s website either. In the EOS Utility prefs I don’t see a way to set a “watched” folder that Lightroom can see. Is there a way with either ImageBrowser or EOS Utility to set a watched folder? I find using any of the Canon software apps to be painful. I would rather invest in Adobe Lightroom than C1Pro because I’m sure Adobe will be around (much) longer.

By: Martin Evening

Martin Evening — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 08:23:04 +0000

I understand what you are saying and others have requested the same: a kind of auto refreshing loupe mode display that refreshes each time a new shot is added. It won’t happen this time for version 1.0, but could possibly become an auto imoprt preference for a future program update.

Different programs and operating systems have their different strengths and weaknesses. As a Mac user I am very envious of how easy it is to do a complete uninstall on a Windows box! Camera driver problems can occur on either platform and as you will gather from the article, to get this to work it’s a kludge that is reliant on external programs/drivers being able to do the actual import, and Lightroom simply picks up the imported files from there and manages them.

Martin