\nEver since Lightroom 3 there\u2019s been a built in way to tether a camera and\u00a0Lightroom. It’s quick, simple and reliable. You\u2019ll find it under File-Tethered Capture-Start Tethered Capture<\/em>. Fill in the setting boxes and away you go.
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<\/a><\/p>\nThe bad news is it only works for a selected number of cameras from Canon, Nikon and Leica. You can see the full list here https:\/\/helpx.adobe.com\/lightroom\/kb\/tethered-camera-support.html<\/a><\/p>\n Basically if you\u2019re camera body isn\u2019t supported you can\u2019t use it but all is not lost. Jump down to section 5 for help.<\/p>\n 2 Right Cable<\/span> What USB cable are you using? Is it the one that camera with your camera or a cable\u00a0you found stuffed away in a drawer? The problem is not all USB cables are the same, despite how they may appear and Lightroom (or rather your computer) is fussy.<\/p>\n Some USB cables are charging cables, some are data cables, some are both and all of them look the same. If Lightroom won\u2019t talk to your camera it may well be the cable that’s\u00a0faulty or simply doesn\u2019t support data. Swap the cable for a known good one and try again.<\/p>\n 3 Go long<\/em><\/strong><\/span> The solution is to buy something called an Active USB Extension also known as a USB Repeater Cable. It’ll have\u00a0either a thicker connection at the female end or a little bump in the cable which houses a signal booster and that’s what gets you past the 5 metre limit. 4 Shrink the bar<\/em><\/strong><\/span> Of course you may not need to see all that extra info, so to hide it hold the ALT key and click on the \u2013 icon in the Tether tools bar\u2019s top right corner. You\u2019ll be left with a single button which you can drag out of the way. 5 Not supported, not a problem<\/em><\/strong><\/span> With the camera software importing to a preselected folder (how this is done varies from brand to brand) I then go to Lightroom and click File-Auto Import-Auto Import Settings<\/em> and put a tick in the Enable Auto Import<\/em> box. Set the watched Folder to be the same folder on my hard drive that I selected in the camera manufacturers software and do the same with the destination folder. And that\u2019s it, Lightroom will auto import any images that land in the watched folder and they appear on screen about five seconds after I take the shot. Best of all Lightroom remembers these settings, so it’s a “set and forget” process too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There\u2019s plenty of reasons why tethering your camera to your computer is a really great idea, I do it all the time for my live demos and workshops. Having your photos appear on a large screen is a great way to show them off to a group or simply to check the sharpness and colour … Continue reading 5 Top Tether Tips (into Lightroom)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,23,111,36,24,144],"class_list":["post-4958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","tag-camera","tag-featured","tag-lightroom","tag-photography","tag-spotlight","tag-studio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4958"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5012,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4958\/revisions\/5012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/em><\/strong>OK so you have a camera that\u2019s supported by your version of Lightroom, it\u2019s all hooked up and the camera\u2019s USB setting are correct. But for some reason Lightroom just won\u2019t recognise it and insists that \u201cNo Camera Detected\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n
\nUnless you intend to shoot with your computer less than a metre from your camera (and some photographers do) you\u2019ll want a USB extension cable. The longer the cable the less likely I am to trip over it and the more mobile I can work. However there\u2019s a problem. If your total cable length goes beyond about 5 meters the USB signal will be intermittent or just plain stop.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nOnce everything is set up, Lightroom will auto import you images whenever you press the camera shutter button, plus it has some basic camera controls such as remote firing the shutter and\u2026 well, actually that\u2019s it but it will show you a bunch of useful camera information like ISO and aperture.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nMoving from Canon to Olympus caused me a few headaches when it came to tethering into Lightroom. Like most cameras manufactures, Olympus makes its own software for tethering and gives it away for free but it lacks things I need (like full screen reviews or any sort of image editing). \u00a0What it does do is auto import photos to a chosen folder on my hard drive which I can then set as a watched folder in Lightoom. Here\u2019s how it works.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n