Of a shoot, you can leave all the settings as they are and continue taking pictures all day, apart from the times where you Basically, once you have configured a tethered shoot setup at the beginning The watched folder and automatically imports these captures to the new Lightroom catalog folder that was specified in Stepĥ, using the preconfigured Auto Import settings. From there, Lightroom recognizes that a new image has been added to Here is how it works: as you start shooting, the EOS Utility imports the camera filesĭirectly to the watched folder you selected in Step 2. Whichever program you use, you should be able to adapt the following steps to automatically import tether-captured images Unfortunately, I have not yet been able to test these other programs. You to establish a watched folder for the downloaded images. You might want to consider buying Bibble Pro software from Bibble Labs ( Bibble Pro (version 4.9 at this writing) enables tethered shooting with a wide variety of digital cameras, and again allows The latest version of Nikon Capture supports all the D Series cameras as well as the Nikon Coolpix 8700. Nikon users will find that Nikon Capture includesĪ Camera Control component that works the same way as the Canon software and establishes a watched folder to download the Import files directly into Lightroom via the Canon EOS Utility program. Range of cameras, and over the next few pages I have outlined the steps needed to set up a Canon EOS 1Ds Mark III to automatically It is possible to use Lightroom in conjunction with the various Canon capture software programs designed for the Canon EOS And because the files are simultaneously deleted from the watchedįolder, you effectively bypass the camera software and the images appear directly in Lightroom. To immediately copy the files into the Lightroom library. When the files appear in this “watched” folder, Lightroom can be configured To download the files to a specific folder location. Here’s how it works: The camera communication software can be configured Take over the image processing and image management. Lightroom is able to appropriate the tethered shooting component of the camera communication software, and from there directly Rapid shooting via a wireless connectionĬan work well if you are shooting in JPEG mode, but not if you intend on shooting raw files only. But the current data transmission speeds with some camerasĪre a lot slower than those you can expect from a FireWire or USB 2.0 connection. Wireless shooting offers you the freedom, up to a certainĭistance, to move about without the restrictions of a tethered cable. The time of this writing, wireless units are available for some digital SLR cameras that will allow you to transmit imagesĭirectly from the camerato a base station linked to the computer. The only downside is that you must have your camera connected to the computer via aįireWire or USB 2.0 cable, and this can restrict the amount of freedom you have to move about without pulling the cable out, or worse still, pulling a laptop computer off the table! Another option is to shoot wirelessly. Toward USB 2.0), which in practice allows you to shoot and download at about the same speed as you can with a fast camera Most existing professional digital SLRs offer a FireWire (IEEE 1394) connection (although many cameras are now moving To shoot in tethered mode you need the ability to connect your camera to the computer. The Canon EOS Utility described on these pages is software that comes with the Canon EOS cameras and can also be downloadedįree of charge from the Canon cameras Web site: (look for the download library section on the site). To automatically import the photos directly into the catalog. Once such software is running, you can configure Lightroom The camera and download captured files to a specified folder location. However, to do this Lightroom needs to rely on the use of camera manufacturer-supplied software that can communicate with Photographs can be quickly brought into Lightroom, bypassing the need to import from a camera card. But if you can connect your camera directly to the computer and import photos to a folder, you can configure Lightroom Importing photos directly from the cameraĪt the time of this writing, there is no official support for tethered shooting in Lightroom ( Figure 2.16). BridgeĬan offer you a much faster route for browsing the photos beforehand. You lots of time since you won’t have to go through the Import Photos dialog to preview the images before importing. You can use Bridge as a preview browser to inspect folders before proceeding to import them. This particular tip can be really useful if you are just starting out in Lightroom and beginning to add photos to the Lightroom
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