Tethered shooting options

[kevin emery]

Gents,

I’m interested in learning more about tethered shooting. I’ve been doing some research on the net and have found loads of options. But, I thought I’d bring it up with you all to share your thoughts and learnings.

I’m a mac, adobe lightroom and canon guy.

I and I’m sure others would love to hear your thoughts on what methods have been best, fastest and offered the most options in your professional opinions.

I would love to learn from you’re learnings rather than building my own wheel.

[J A Y M O R R]

Lightroom 3.0+ has built in tethering.  I use it a lot on macro/product work and find it to be much better than other software options.  If you are already using Lightroom then you should have it, unless of course you need to upgrade your version to LR3.

I have bought my camera to PC cords in 12-15ft lengths (gold tip connections) for relatively cheap at places like Walmart or BestBuy.  Length is a factor and it has been mentioned that lengths beyond 15ft can cause some connection issues.  I won’t get into to many details about it but just know I have not experienced any of them at 15ft when tethered.

When I shoot any portrait sessions in my office/studio tethered, the client sees my work and it tends to turn into a full on “Chimp” session 😉

I think you will be impressed with the setup in Lightroom 3.  It is simple, clean and easy to use.  Select the tether option from the drop down menu.

I hope that helps Kevin.  Let us know if you go this route.

[kevin emery]

Jay,

Thanks for your input. I do have LR3 and the ability to tether here. However, I’m currently working in Greenland and have to wait to return home (tomorrow) to install my EOS Utility to my laptop before I can shoot tethered in LR3. Or so I think! I’ve hooked everything up, LR recognizes my 5D, but the camera continually stays in “Busy” mode. So, that’s what I thinking is the problem now. I’ll install EOS disk this weekend and see how it goes.

Bring on the “Chimp” sessions.

[willmilne]

Not sure if this is the case with Canon. I use my Nikon tethered a lot of the time. With the utility I use I need to switch , in the camera menu, from ” talking ” to a CF card to “talking” to a computer for tethering to work.

Perhaps there is an similar function in your 5D .

Will

[kevin emery]

Will,

That was it.

[J A Y M O R R]

🙂

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