P: Tethering on Apple Silicon Macs

As @Bob Somrak notes, I was referring to NX_tether which is nikon's tethering software. It is native on Apple Silicon.

NX Tether runs Native Apple M chips

Also, Canon updated their Tether SDK quite awhile ago to Native Apple M chips

It is apparently Adobe sitting on the ball.

Actually, what you sent says it is NOT native at Nikon… but rather under Rosetta 2 in MacOS Monterey – From the site link you posted:



Camera Control Pro 2   2.34.0   Intel:  We have confirmed that there are no problems with basic operation,  Apple Silicon:  We have confirmed that there are no problems with basic operation (the software runs under Rosetta 2).






David Spivak – President

DESIGN SOLUTIONS



Creativity That Gets Results

Interestingly, Nikon's own tethering software is Apple silicon native (https://www.nikonimgsupport.com/na/NSG_article?articleNo=000044114&configured=1&lang=en_SG ) so not sure why Adobe (who use Nikon's APIs for this) can't get it going.

FYI everybody, Apple will NOT be supporting Rosetta for much longer. I believe the original intention was 3 years maximum. Well, we are 2 years into the first M1 Mac. Tick-tock. What hapens when Apple no longer supports it and Adobe has not made tethered capture native? Will I need to stay in an older OS as a result? Or be forced to buy Capture 1?

I, for one, am TIRED of having to relaunch in Rosetta all the time to do tethered capture. The M1 has been around for 2 years now. And I am sure Adobe was notified well in advance of the M1 and specs. You have managed to raise subscription prices, yet this single but important feature has been completely neglected. I don't want to have to purchase Capture One or another external piece of tether software when I already own something theat SHOULD work properly and within my Adobe-centric workflow.

Hatte eigentlich gehofft, dass es mit der neuen Version unterstützt wird. Aber dem ist ja leider nicht so .. hoffe auf baldigen und VOLLE Unterstützung des M1 ohne "Umwege" über die Rosetta-Emulation.

It would be nice to hear something like "We haven't forgotten about you", "We acknoledge this limitation and are working on a solution", "This is unusually difficult because...". Thank you!

Agreed, I've been using C1 as well lately again. I also got TetherTools Smart Shooter 4 but it requires establishing the tether through Lightroom so again, same problem about running in Rosetta. Native tethering would really help, not because of the tethering itself, but because of everything else LR does while we're tethered.

Hey Adobe you must know that the tethering in Lightroom needs to be updated to work in native mode on an M1 Mac. Running Lightroom in Rosetta causes no end of crashes and glitches. I've had to start using Capture One to work with my camera (EOS 5DS) in tethered mode to get it to work reliably.

So COME ON guys if a liitle Danish company can make this work, how come Adobe engineers can't? You've had long enough. Don't be surprised if you lose more users to Capture One if you take much longer to fix this...

Colin Thomas