SETTING UP A TETHER STATION
When it comes to tethering your camera to a computer to use with Lightroom, we recommend investing in high quality gear, such as a Tether Tools cable and a Tether Tools Jerkstopper Camera Support. There are cheaper options, but Tether Tools gear is built to last and is worth the investment. Cheaper cables may give you problems with consistency when transferring data.
How to tether your camera:
- Connect your camera to the computer with a proper tethering cable
- Open Lightroom
- Go to ‘File’
- Select ‘Tethered Capture’
- Select ‘Start Tethered Capture’
- Name the session
- Choose a destination to import files
- Select metadata/preset for import (if desired)
- Press OK
You will know you’ve successfully tethered your camera to Lightroom if you see your camera information included in the display in Lightroom. If you have a new camera and this process does not work, Lightroom may not yet support the camera, and you may have to wait for a Lightroom update. In some instances, the camera may never be supported. For a more detailed list of which cameras that Lightroom supports, visit Adobe’s website and view the list.
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This post lost all credibility when it suggested using Lightroom for tethering: personal preferences aside Capture One is far superior when it comes to tethered capture workflow.
Here’s a vid in case anyone else came for content
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F-oVOPwGkR8
Reginald Walton right! and SLR advertises 1600 premium tutorials, and if this is considered one of them then i’m not sure i want to pay for the other 1599…
this post has no useful information #mildlyinfuriating
I agree and you can find tethering information on Youtube for free. It’s not difficult to tether, so not sure why SLR wants to charge for this information – sigh!