Tethered shooting with Lightroom 3 - how easy is that!

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Absolutely brilliant. I do a lot of tethered shooting both for sports and events. Lightroom 3 has a tethered shooting facility built in. Plug the camera into the laptop via USB, start tethered shooting in Lightroom, and that's it.

No more messing about with watched folders, firing up Canon Utilities, moving files all over the place. Lightroom recognises your camera, asks you where you want to put the photos, and any settings/keywords you want to use, and you're away.

And it's fast - probably 2-3 times quicker than going via Canon Utilities. RAW files from my 1DIV show up in about 3 seconds.

Superb!!!!
 
Yup shot with it last week. Photo's now being used in our publicity stuff. Had to shoot 20 secs exposures in a darkened room with light painting. The only way you could do it quickly was tethered and Lightroom 3 worked brilliantly.

So easy to do now. Did you use the session naming to change the filenames of the images? I saved to CF card and the files onto a USB hard drive onto my little laptop, then took them into my big editing PC.
 
I have just ordered Lightroom 3 and awaiting its delivery. Never tried this so am looking forward to trying this.
Mick
 
Byker28i said:
Did you use the session naming to change the filenames of the images? I saved to CF card and the files onto a USB hard drive onto my little laptop, then took them into my big editing PC.
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I didn't try the session naming thing - I'll need to give that a go.
 
I had a go last week, it takes a while for the RAW file to get accross. I would love tp shoot RAW +JPEG with the RAW styaing on the card and the JPEG going to the laptop.
 
I shot an event last night in tethered mode. No problems whatsoever - worked immediately and no problems. Very good.
 
I've just installed DSLR Remote to my iPhone. You still need to have your camera connected to a computer but you get more freedom and a live preview on the iPhone (sweet) and a lot more freedom of movement. It's quite a pricey app but I like it better than the Lightroom tethering.
 
LR3 tethering certainly is handy, I've used all the free alternatives before now, Mountain storm, Sofortbuild, EOS utilities for Canon and the not so free Nikon camera control pro.

LR3 picks up a dropped camera connection almost instantly which no other software can do, camera control needed a full reset before recognising the camera again and the other freebies would need a hard reset :bang:

The only minor issue with LR3 tethering is the inability to control camera function.

kimaldis said:
I've just installed DSLR Remote to my iPhone. You still need to have your camera connected to a computer but you get more freedom and a live preview on the iPhone (sweet) and a lot more freedom of movement. It's quite a pricey app but I like it better than the Lightroom tethering.
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Wow, now that's a cool app, even for $19.99.
Only disadvantage I can see is that it relies entirely on a wifi network to operate. A little limited but certainly cool none the less.
Cheers for posting :thumbs:
 
Just a pity you can't save to CF card in the camera AND to the PC. :(
 
david1701 said:
wha you have a new forum name Tomas :O
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:suspect: Must be a ripple in the matrix....:suspect:


awp said:
Just a pity you can't save to CF card in the camera AND to the PC. :(
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Tell me about it mate, it's a real pain in the posterior fathom that more or less all the tethering options do not allow this.

USB transfer is excruciatingly slow, if you have any images that buffered up and for some reason the connection between computer and camera is broke = all files banished to the ether, never to return :thumbsdown:

Still, I am a tetherer when I need to be.
 
I'm using it on a job tomorrow - but I may just tether till I'm happy the shot is OK - then shoot direct to camera. Then set up the next one with tether - and so on.
 
Tyke Tiler said:
:suspect: Must be a ripple in the matrix....:suspect:




Tell me about it mate, it's a real pain in the posterior fathom that more or less all the tethering options do not allow this.

USB transfer is excruciatingly slow, if you have any images that buffered up and for some reason the connection between computer and camera is broke = all files banished to the ether, never to return :thumbsdown:

Still, I am a tetherer when I need to be.
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weird Huh

Also, there is a solution to your problem and it starts with a C :p
 
awp said:
Just a pity you can't save to CF card in the camera AND to the PC. :(
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Eh - that's exactly how I worked with my setup. I shot to the PC using the session naming to store onto an attached USB hard drive, but I still have the images stored as IMG_xxxx on the CF card as well. Worked a treat for me.
 
what did you do to set that up? I've tried and it only seems to save to the PC?
 
Tyke Tiler said:
USB transfer is excruciatingly slow, if you have any images that buffered up and for some reason the connection between computer and camera is broke = all files banished to the ether, never to return :thumbsdown:

Still, I am a tetherer when I need to be.
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Never dropped connection over an entire afternoons shooting. I was in a darkened studio shooting 20-30 sec exposures of a panel so I could get the lights properly exposed, then was lighting the panel bodywork/outline with flash pulses. Being tethered worked brilliantly for me and I only noticed a few secs delay before the picture came up but put that down to the slow processor/slow hard disk (1.8" tiny slow thing) on my Dell 430 laptop.

The only thing that was missing was the ability to change some settings. I'd love to be able to change shutter or aperture etc.
 
Byker28i said:
Never dropped connection over an entire afternoons shooting. I was in a darkened studio shooting 20-30 sec exposures of a panel so I could get the lights properly exposed, then was lighting the panel bodywork/outline with flash pulses. Being tethered worked brilliantly for me and I only noticed a few secs delay before the picture came up but put that down to the slow processor/slow hard disk (1.8" tiny slow thing) on my Dell 430 laptop.

The only thing that was missing was the ability to change some settings. I'd love to be able to change shutter or aperture etc.
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LR3 hasn't dropped a connection for me either, I was referring to the other tethered options available such as Sofortbuild, Mountain Storm and Nikon CC Pro.

They have all dropped connections on me when performing even the most smallest of file transfers.

I can't wait give LR3 tethering a real test when figure skating seasons opens in the fall ;)

How do you set your tethering up to record on both card and drive then mate?

T.
 
from Adobe website - under 'Nikon' notes:
"Images do not save to the CF card. They are only downloaded to the computer."

:thumbsdown: what a pity.
 
awp said:
from Adobe website - under 'Nikon' notes:
"Images do not save to the CF card. They are only downloaded to the computer."

:thumbsdown: what a pity.
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Shazbot :( That's what I thought.
 
Tyke Tiler said:
How do you set your tethering up to record on both card and drive then mate?

T.
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Bought the lappy in for upgrading to windows 7 today, as it's supposed to be faster with lightroom 3 than XP, then I'll give it and go and let you know. last time I just used it as stated then saved to a usb hard drive on the laptop rather than the little 1.8" drive. When I got home I had the pics on the cf card as well.
 
Tyke Tiler said:
The only minor issue with LR3 tethering is the inability to control camera function.
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I had a five minute play with it yesterday and this is the only thing missing, though when I'm likely to be shooting tethered I'm also likely to be shooting manual everything so I'm hardly going to miss it that much.
 
Yes shame it doesn't write to the cf card as well.
I've been shooting tethered with Capture One for years and time and time again we have asked for that facility.
According to Phase One, it's something out of there control as Canon and I assume Nikon won't let them have the code to develop that facility, so I'm guessing the same goes for Adobe.
 
Just finished playing with it again. It writes to the flash card first with my 50D (about 1secs) then I get the copying from camera message. I get a copy on flash with the camera numbering plus a copy where I have asked it to put it.

Must be a canon/nikon difference then. Hopefully they'll write a different driver in a later release.

I generally shoot manual when tethered, but it would be nice to be able to be lazy and do everything from inside lightroom.
 
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