P: Tethering

Philip, I am in the same boat. Exactly.

Just looking through this thread, I wonder if Adobe is even responding to this issue. So.. I sit here, w/ 8 different length usb cable, a 5D, and a up to date mac w/ LR up to date.

I think that tomorrow.. I will try calling Adobe. Has anyone tried that yet? I can't imagine that they would let such a professional tool fail like this, with such an important, and relied upon feature. Sad. Don't know what I'm going to do this weekend for my shoot. Thank you Adobe... please help.

It looks like for me the problem is that Canon no longer support the 5D mk1 - hence it doesn't work with os x lion..... still, here is my contribution:

* Make/Model of camera
5D mk1

* OS version
Lion 10.7.2 (macbook air 2nd gen)

* What problem you're having - can you shoot anything through tether?
- LR recognises the camera but not the settings on the camera.
- Also doesn't import any photos

* What, if any, steps gets the camera tethering again after you have the problem?
- Nothing resolves it.

* What length USB cable are you using?
- 5m

* Have you tried a shorter cable?
- Yes, 1m (brand new cable)

* Have you tried a different USB port?
- Yes

* Are you using a USB hub? Powered or unpowered?
- No

* Did tethering work for you previously?
- Yes, in sept 2011 using up to date version of snow leopard (although temperamental - often had to stop tethered capture and restart for it to work)

* When you're tethering, how do you normally shoot? Do you do a bunch of big bursts, followed by a pause to let the computer catch up? Or is it more steady? If you shoot very quickly, can you get the problem to still happen if you shoot more slowly?
- When it worked pre-lion, I shot slowly, 1 at a time.

* Are you adjusting the camera settings quite a bit as you tether? Does that seem to have anything to do with the failure?
- No

* Open "About This Mac" from the Apple menu, then click "More Info". In the window that opens, select "USB". Your camera should be listed under "USB High-Speed Bus". Click on it and look at what it says for Speed. Does it say "Up to 480 Mb/sec" or "12 Mb/sec"?
- Upto 480 Mb/sec

In my case the length of the cable is (was) crucial, it did not work with a longer one.
And still doesn't. ± 3 mtr. and a small camera usb connection cable with "gold" contacts ... The original Nikon cable does not work anymore.

Wondering: How much influence could choice of cable have on this stuff either working or failing. I have multiple 12' (whatever the max is supposed to be) small-USB to regular-USB cables, and they're all cheap crap. Is there a quality USB cable out there that might help?

It just seems like there are a million moving targets out there, but there have been a couple interesting comments here regarding the stupid cord. Could it be?

After installing the LR 3.6 update it works !! fast but with a short cable ...
± 3 mtr. ( a little short for studio / location) but i'm happy so far .
Before LR3 it was possible with an usb 6 mtr. cable (with repeater)
Thanks it took you guys a long time ?

Peter

Dear Adobe ,
All these people are not dumb and would like to spend time
shooting instead of "tethering" a camera that was pretty easy some time ago.

My D700 and a colleagues Canon D1 and my sons Canon D400 do not shoot tethered anymore !! Bought a short usb-with-gold-plugs and now it transports a few more frames ± 10, before starting to stop ... grey thumb in LR and the spinning wheel. Stopping LR helps of course but after startup the same problem.

Hopefully my system screenshots are uploaded as well ....
Would you try to come-up with a helping fix ?

Thanks in advance,
Peter Dellenbag Amsterdam

It's a Release Candidate not (yet) available through the normal update mechanisms. Details, instructions, and links to the downloads here:

http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjourn...

Kevin
Here are my most recent results:

LR 3.6 RC continues to have the same memory leaks as previous versions.

This, while I am editing an import of around 400 Nikon D700 (raw&jpg) images and applying adjustments as I go through it. My adjustments are mainly cropping and lighting (often adding fill), vignette and the occasional spot removal tool.
(But rarely adding an adjustment brush or gradient this time.)

In this latest attempt, I was making adjustments to previously edited images and re-exporting them (using "export with previous") as I went along. Eventually LR reported "not enough memory" to export and soon after I found that purging memory only purges enough memory to export a single file before running out of memory again.

Closing and reopening LR seems to temporarily solve the problem (until the available memory fills up again).

For this job I am using my (at the time, high end) 3yr old desktop using up-to-date Win XP with Nvidia display and Spyder Pro-3 adjustments.

As indicated in Kevin's post above, LR3.6RC can be found here:
http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjourn...

Release candidates are usually found on the Adobe Labs site.

I tried to download LR 3.6 but I did not find it.
(neither on adobe.com/downloads nor through lightroom->search for update)

:-(