P: Tethering

Kevin: If the fix involves going back to 10.6.7 or some such nonsense then please don't respond to me. However my email is bc@bobcarmichael.com I use a Nikon D3.
Carmichael

Hi Jim, thanks. Kevin and I have access to your email address behind the scenes so we'll send you an email.

Kevin...I would be glad to help you out. But it appears there is no way on this photoshop.com "community" to contact anyone with a private message. Please let me know if there is any way to do this.

I have a new potential fix for the tethering problem with the D3/D3x, and would like to find someone here who would be willing to test it for me. Note that this fix only affects Nikon cameras (Dan, your problem is on my radar, too).

If you've been having tether problems with your Nikon and would like to try this new build and give me feedback, please let me know how I can contact you.

Thanks,

-kevin

When they sold LR3, it worked, and it continued to work up until Apple broke it. This is like blaming the car manufacturer for the fact that your neighbor's teenager ran into your car while it was parked.

I don't understand the mentality of Apple fanboy's. They screw everything up and they can still do no wrong.

So here is my final take. Adobe doesn't give a DARN about pro photographers or any photographers as far as I can tell. Quite simply, they don't want to admit this screw up with LR3. They are still marketing it like it is the cats meow... I'm tired of reading ad nausea accounts of fellow photographers lamenting this disastrous non functioning tether option which every other company SOMEHOW has figured out how to accomplish with consistency. All we get are "employees" who want to string us along asking dumb questions about OUR procedure etc etc etc. JUST FIX IT ADOBE. PUT SOME MONEY INTO IT and MAKE IT WORK and PUBLICLY admit your mistake as opposed to covering it up on these threads. I'm disgusted by this how little effort Adobe has put into this. It should not have been released and marketed. We did believe you ADOBE that you wanted to step up with LR3. Do you ever read anything about recalls or admission of error? No and that simply is not acceptable and is unethical. This has been going on for three months and Kevin above is still tracking it down? Give me a break.

Bob Carmichael
bobcarmichael.com

I'm not really excited about the idea of going back and reinstalling a previous OS, I suspect that would create either a lot of other problems or a tremendous amount of work with some potential for real problems, data loss etc. As well, I don't believe Apple make it very easy to unwind an OS update. Also, I shouldn't have to. Apple says they give all developers ample time to test their products against the updates to ensure compatibility and based on my past experience with Adobe, they're usually behind the curve on this or conveniently come up with a new version that is compatible but requires a paid upgrade.

Why not just go back to a previous version of the OS that you know works?

I was calibrating the fine focus on the cameras. Something I've done many times with previous iterations of OS/Lightroom with no problem. Can you give me any idea when this will be fixed? I'm a full time commercial photog and really need to be able to tether for some shoots which means I'll have to buy Aperture within the next week or two if there's no solution on the horizon from Adobe.

Firewire is not on the Nikon but we do have a PhaseOne setup which we are replacing with Nikon. The comparison here was the download speed between PhaseOne H20 to Capture One via firewire and the Nikon to LR via USB. The Softbilt was from the Nikon via LR via USB. I hope this makes sense.