Nikon shooting tethered!

[Deano2510]

Hi Guys and Gals,

This may have been covered somewhere before but thought I would give it a mention as found really useful.

Have a Nikon D3 and wanted to have a go at shooting tethered straight into lightroom. On investigating unlike Canons free software you need to buy Nikons camera control software at around £ 125 which seems a costly option, so decided to have a web search and found DIYphotoBits 4.0.

http://www.diyphotobits.com/download-diyphotobitscom-camera-control/

Its a free bit of software that allows you to use the main controls for the camera like isa, shutter speed etc etc when connected with the USB lead, also it will link images taken straight into any folder on the laptop, so just set lightrooms auto import to look in that folder and they pop straight up in libary.

Hope this helps anyone thinking of trying tethered out with a Nikon camera,

All the Best

Deano

 

[joe1978]

Thanks for the pointer, just a bit cheaper than nikons offering!!

joe

 

[ditchdigger]

which is the one you actually download i cant work it out

 

[grey.squirrel]

I'd presume 4.0 as it's the most recent, the other's are just older versions

 

[Tyke Tiler]

I shoot a D3 and shoot tethered using Mountainstorm's Studio & Lightroom Tether

It works very nicely and it's free.
I advise some reading up on how to configure lightroom correctly, it can be a little trial and error initially.

Hope this helps

T.

 

[corbystock]

just trying that myself at the moment, i am viewing mine through bridge but i am using the thumbnails as large as i can because i can't get the preview side to let me see the most recent shot, only the thumbnail will let me do that. Are there any programmes i could view the images on that would let me zoom in to 100% ish?