Comments on: The Benefits of Shooting Tethered Into Lightroom

By: Larry

Larry — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:40:59 +0000

Peter, so true on having them pull out of the camera. It can be very frustrating, especially after a few great shots.

I use this angled mini plug in my 5D – no more problems with pulling out! Not sure how to post a link – but here’s the on that I use – http://www.usbfirewire.com/leftangleminib.html

By: Danny Donuts

Danny Donuts — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 05:12:32 +0000

Get rid of the cable. Use a wireless dongle set as shown in the demo here:

http://www.homebrewusb.com/

You can even build your own wireless dongle set too! It’s faster than what Canon or Nikon has to offer

By: Peter Marin

Peter Marin — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:26:46 +0000

Yes, shooting tethered into Lightroom is awesome……..except when you didn’t realize the cable to the camera has slightly pulled out and data is no longer being sent to your ‘puter. For this reason, I now gaffer tape my cable to the side of my 5D. The mini USB plug get loose very quickly, especially when shooting while standing, like in a studio shoot situation. Shooting static subjects is obviously not a problem, but just be mindful of the cable coming away slightly from the camera port.
Also, when the plug is re-inserted it usually requires a re-boot and new ‘watched folder’ be created. Not good half way through a shoot.
Since I’ve ironed out my bug, everything is working out really well and the clients get a buzz seeing there stuff virtually straight away.
One of the best things a stated is the viewing the RAW data instead of the processed jpeg.

Pete

By: jim lyle

jim lyle — Wed, 06 May 2009 03:29:02 +0000

do faster cpu’s mean faster load times?

thanks

jim

By: Michael Warf

Michael Warf — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:12:02 +0000

I made a quick video tutorial on how to use MountainTether on Mac OSX 10.5.6 – I hope it helps a few of you out.

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

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:08:13 +0000

Be wary of tethering using Mac OS 10.5.6 – Once you have more than about 120 shots, 10.5.6’s USB drivers go flaky. Apparently, Apple updated the USB drivers between 10.5.5 and 10.5.6 to get greater speed out of the drivers. Unfortunately, they introduced problems for those of us who tether into Macs using 10.5.6. See http://www.luminous-landscape.com/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t31019.html for more details on the problem.

By: PCB

PCB — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:38:28 +0000

Use Mountainstorm at your own risk! It killed the card that was in my camera… not good.

By: Franco Grillo

Franco Grillo — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 05:30:28 +0000

Does anyone know how to connect a Canon EOS camera to 64-bit Vista? There are no 64-bit Vista drivers on the Canon website. Without the driver my PC does not recognise the camera (I have a 20D) and that makes tethered shooting impossible. Any ideas?

By: Joao Henriques

Joao Henriques — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 11:01:46 +0000

“Hopefully, in a future generation of LR, we’ll have the ability to soft-proof directly.” Let us pray… Thanks for your answer

By: Syl Arena

Syl Arena — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 05:22:49 +0000

Joao – With LR2 and CS3, you can not soft-proof without opening Photoshop. It’s on the wishlist that I’ve sent to Adobe. My workflow for soft-proofing is to quickly open the image from LR into PS, turn on soft-proofing for CMYK and take a quick look. Once PS is launched, it takes less than a minute. Hopefully, in a future generation of LR, we’ll have the ability to soft-proof directly.