How to: Tethered Capture & Import into Lightroom (New Version EOSR & EOS 5DSR)
This video is about How to Shoot Tethered & Import into Lightroom
Just got a question from a fellow photographer who was having trouble figuring out how to use Lightroom to tethered shoot from his camera to his computer via wired connection.
Lightroom is a photo editing software used to enhance and adjust details in a post production setting off camera. But why would you want to tether your DSLR/mirrorless camera such as the Canon EOS 5dsr or EOSR?
Well the answer is because cameras have become too damn good, which makes picture quality unbelievable but also file sizes huge, which means the tiny screen provided on your camera isn't going to do the picture justice, and more importantly you can miss things during your shoot that you could have spotted on a large screen.
So if you have a decent monitor or something with a good graphics processor and you like to shoot photos in a controlled setting such as studio photography than you NEED to be seeing those images as you take them in real time on a huge screen to really make sure your work is as good as it can be. So Lightroom does an amazing job, I shoot Raw 50mp and the time between my shutter click and when I see the photo pop up on the tethered screen is about 6 seconds which I think is very good, there are programs that do it faster but honestly I like using Lightroom classic and I don't want to have to get another program and then move the files around anyways. It also give you the option to add meta data to each photo you tether and import. This is helpful because when you are working on multiple projects you need organization of file names, which settings you were at, the time, date, hell even geo location and some strange ones can be recorded with each photo you take. You can even make up your own tags and numbering while shooting tethered into Adobe Lightroom on any Canon or Nikon brand DSLR or mirrorless camera. Heres a list of every camera body that Adobe Lightroom can tether with at the current version of Lightroom 6.14
Canon: https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-cla...
Nikon: https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-cla...
We have figured it out and explained the solution here in this video in under 5 minutes.
Because BAM! Thats Why.
Ok Let's get serious,
You are reading this and thinking what's the secret here buddy can you just give us the keys so we can go already. So the big secret is that Lightroom from the Adobe Creative Cloud does NOT have Tethered Shooting otherwise known as Tethered Capture Mode. Yea. Foreals.
So. What to do, how to tethered capture?
We like Lightroom, we like Adobe, why did they do us like this...
They didn't (sort of nurfed us though), below I explain how to shoot totally tethered and import:
Simply visit your Adobe Creative Cloud
Find your applications/programs
Click on "Lightroom Classic"
Download and open the program
Plug in your camera and power it on
Open a folder (any folder)
Click "File"
Click "Tethered Capture"
You can set settings if you like
A hovering box will open up allowing you to adjust ISO, SP, and fStop
You can click the big button to snap a photo or control via your camera body
So I hope everyone found this helpful, it had me stumped for a minute there.
If you need to know how to tether your camera or dslr body for automatic importing into iMac software like Lightroom or photoshop or even canon utility to retain the metadata you can check out my other video on this topic.
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