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February 5, 2022
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P: Tethering on Apple Silicon Macs

  • February 5, 2022
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Hey Adobe developers! You probably don't hear this much but Apple Silicon Mac users are *really* excited about Lightroom running so extremely well in native mode. The speed improvements are massive. For example, I work with 2GB raw DNG files (400megapixel Fuji GFX cameras) and things that took 6 and 2 minutes before now take 4 and 1 seconds. It's a life changing improvemnt - thanks for working so hard to make this transition possible! 

 

Tethering however requires that we reboot under Rosetta. Those of us in the cultureal heritatge artwork documentation community are shooting 100+ megapixel cameras all day long. While Rosetta is really quite impressivly fast, it's a bummer to not be able to enjoy the native speeds while shooting. For example, after taking a picture one must zoom into 100% and check focus, and this is far faster when running in native mode. 

 

So this is just a reminder in case someone forgot, or lowered the priority on making tethering native. We look forward to and will really benefit from this being native - thanks!!

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Francesco Tonelli
Participating Frequently
May 18, 2022

I agree with Scott. In my studio I shoot exclusively tethered to my computer with a FUJI GFX 100 which has huge files. I just bought a Mac Studio Ultra and was excited to enjoy the new speeds, but was so disappointed to see that to shoot tethered Laightroom must relaunch in Rosetta. Could you please give us an idea of when we may excpect native tethering to be implemented?

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April 13, 2022

Bump. Native tethering would be a big help. All the other native support isn't available for those us that tether... Waiting for that nice big jump in performance!