P: Tethering

No this is Adobe not being flexible or transparent enough to admit that LR3 has a serious incompatibility with the Apple platform. Of course one dude came up with Sofortbild and he was able to circumvent ALL these issues which is a bit curious??? Why can't Adobe FIX this?

Bob Carmichael

Think I have made a weird discovery and not sure if its a one off with my equipment. After upgrading to Lion and LR 3.5 the problem is as worse as ever.
I've tried using other software to tether and then use a watch folder with LR. There's just not much out there and as Canon have not released Canon Utility for Lion its a real issue now with no work around!!

After testing all day though my Canon 1DSmk3 works perfectly tethered until I use the mirror up function. I shoot interiors and use the mirror up all the time. The tether crashes as soon as I raise the mirror to shoot. Would be interested to hear if this is the case for anyone else. This is probably why this is has been an intermittent problem for me as I don't always shoot with the mirror up (portraits etc)...

I saw today on Twitter -- and just confirmed it at http://www.adobe.com/support/download... -- that the LR 3.5 final release is now available for download.

Although I have downloaded the program, I haven't had a chance to test it yet -- but I am anxious to do so to see if the tethering bugs have been solved.

Although, I must admit, it seems curious to me that Adobe would roll-out the LR 3.5 final release and not announce it on this forum if they had in fact repaired the tethering problem.

But then again, it also seems curious to me that Adobe would roll-out the LR 3.5 final release without repairing the widely-reported tethering problem in the first place.

I will report back with my personal Nikon D3/D3x tethering findings and would encourage others to do the same.

RIGHT ON Scotty! That is exactly what LR3 should do. In fact, they should license Stefan's work... or buy out his franchise... clearly there is a work around here.

Now Adobe step up ...

Bob Carmichael
bobcarmichael.com

I am not a software engineer, but as a suggestion, would it help at all to look deeper into Sofortbild's tethering code?

As mentioned here by me (and others), Sofortbild continues to work with the 10.6.8 upgrade across all my Nikon cameras. I have moved to using Sofortbild for tethering with a watched folder in LR and have had not a single hiccup/problem/hang/lost photograph.

Clearly Sofortbild has not been affected by the recent Apple OSX updates. Perhaps there is merit in understanding what Stefan Hafeneger (the developer of Sofortbild) has done in the design of Sofortbild that renders it still workable following Apple's OSX upgrade.

Posted very early on this issue with the latest update of LR prior to 3.5RC. Running snow leopard. Real tether issue with the connection crashing after an initial couple of frames shot and then a pause. Followed this thread and there has seemed to be lots of thoughts of USB library issues etc. I upgraded to Lion and LR3.5RC. Everything worked really well until the last couple of days shooting. Same old problem occurs. Shoot a couple of test frames then pause to change lights or what ever then carry on shooting and it crashes.

Only fix is to quit LR, turn off camera and start again. Can't tell you what a nightmare this is when trying to shoot portraits in a tricky lighting situation. Looks totally unprofessional and I really can't put up with it again. Surely you can add a error log feature to LR we can send you?? It just doesn't work!!

Please can you give us an update on these issues.

Geoff,

My apologies but what other specific details would you like to know about the system I am running besides the computer type, OS version, LR version and camera types?

I have only one user account in my MBP (mine)?

Scott

Scott, I did ask for more details than you supplied. However have you tried a different user account?

Scott, I've done the same thing. I had another thread running at the same time.I gave up and bought Aperture. I haven't had a single problem yet and I've probably shot 7,000 images through tether since I switched. If this is something you need make the change. Adobe clearly doesn't engineers strong enough to find the fix, or it would have been done. One nice thing though, I was reading a blog about Aperture (trying to get up to speed on it since I bought it) and the blogger wrote that lightroom 3 is NOT compatible with Lion and he could not get it to work for demonstration reasons. So he used a friends computer. Aperture showed to be a functional product. You might just cut your loses, inform your friends that may be in the same boat, and say goodbye to Lightroom 3 "the light stands for lite like amateur"

Geoff, I started this thread and my set-up is listed in the title of the post: I operate a Nikon D3 and D3x, a new MBP running 10.6.8 and the problems persist across LR 3.4.1 and 3.5RC. Scott