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November 7, 2017
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This post is applicable to Lightroom Classic.

ETAs for tethered support for specific cameras are not available.

Tethered Capture is a feature of Lightroom Classic that allows the direct connection of your camera to the Lightroom desktop environment. Images are imported into your Lightroom catalog as they are captured via the connected camera.

New camera support for reading the raw files is generally added quickly after a camera is released by its manufacturer. New camera support can be verified here: https://helpx.adobe.com/camera-raw/kb/camera-raw-plug-supported-cameras.html.

Tethered support for a particular camera model normally follows a version or two after the raw file support. Adobe relies on the manufacturer’s (Nikon & Canon) SDK (Software Development Kit) to facilitate the tethering of your camera to Lightroom. The timing of the release of a manufacturer’s support via their SDK greatly affects the time to release for tethered support. In addition, Adobe goes through a rigorous process of integrating the functionality of the SDK and tests tethering before support is announced.

To see if your camera is supported for tethering on your version of Lightroom, refer to this document: https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom/kb/tethered-camera-support.html

If your camera is listed, but your Lightroom version is too old, you may need to update or upgrade to enable tethering.

If your camera is not listed, and your camera’s raw file isn't supported, you would need to check with the camera’s manufacturer to see if they support tethering via their SDK.

Note: Not all camera manufacturers or models will necessarily receive tether support.

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Hendrik Holnäck

Participating Frequently

PLEASE! Add the EOS R5 C for Teathering in Lightroom!

really sad! after one year in stores the CANON EOS R5 C is still not supported for teathering in Lightroom .. the R5 is supported, the C not .. thats very very sad when buy me a camera and one important thing is not working .. so i need to wait till adobe ads the camera and while this time i have to buy capture one .. now i ask me, why i still pay for adobe?

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jimmyc3317266

Participant

The 12.2 update tethers with the Z9, but it's buggy. It was a little tricky to get it connected, and then it crashed after I took 10 images in a row one second apart.

At least it's working again with the Z6ii.

DdeGannes

Community Expert

@jimmyc3317266, Welcome to the forum since you are working with Lightroom Classic 12.2 so your issue is not related to the info in this thread and it may get lost from the attention it deserves.

It's best you start a new thread with a suitable Header and with full information including details of your operating system. See additional info in the screenshot below.

Regards, Denis: iMac 27” mid-2015, macOS 11.7.10 Big Sur; 2TB SSD, 24 GB Ram, GPU 2 GB; LrC 12.5,; Lr 6.5, PS 24.7,; ACR 15.5,; (also Laptop Win 11, ver 24H2, LrC 15.3; PS 27.0; ) Camera Oly OM-D E-M1.

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Hendrik Holnäck

Participating Frequently

really sad! after one year in stores the CANON EOS R5 C is still not supported for teathering in Lightroom .. the R5 is supported, the C not .. thats very very sad when buy me a camera and one important thing is not working .. so i need to wait till adobe ads the camera and while this time i have to buy capture one .. now i ask me, why i still pay for adobe? 😞

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Laila280842746qli

Participant

Hallo,

ich habe seit kurzem die Canon R6 Mark ii für meine Arbeit. In zwei Wochen habe ich ein wichtiges Shooting und möchte mittels Tethering meinen Auftraggebern und den Models die Bilder direkt auf dem Bildschirm präsentieren. Leider findet Lightroom die neue Kamera nicht. Was kann ich tun, damit die Canon R6 Mark ii gefunden wird? Bei mir ist sowohl Macbook, Kamera und LightroomUpdate immer auf dem neuesten Stand....

Danke schonmal für eure Hilfe! 🙂

Sean McCormack

Community Expert

As it's not in the list, there's no way to know when. Generally it's added within a version or two of release. The R7 and R10 were added recently for example.

https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/kb/tethered-camera-support.html

You can use EOS Utility, or whatever Canon's current tether app is combined with Auto Import in the mean time.

Sean McCormack. Author of 'Essential Development 3'. Magazine Writer. Former Official Fuji X-Photographer.

auttapolt13363986

Participant

Lightroom classic 12.1 can't tethered capture with Canon R6 mark ii.

No camera detected

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Bill Sprague

Community Expert

Check the list of cameras. The mark 2 will probably get there.

https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/kb/tethered-camera-support.html

jop33605919

Participant

Hello Rikk, since more than 10 years I use the tethered function in Lr what I Love. I just baught the new Canon R5c. When will my camera be supported?

Thanks in advance, Jo.

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defaultym7jm7m0ofdq

Participant

Hello, I reported this unworking tethering since beginning of December. Today I was checking and it does not work! I have Nikon Z2 and MacBook updated to the latest Apple version, so is LrC. What's the point to pay so much money for Adobe subscribtion if it is not relable and what's stated as function, it does not function. This is Adobe application and if they claim something in UG fuctions, they should make everything to fix it ASAP. Honestly this is taken too much. It is Adobe responsibility, it is their application we are paying for.

Adobe please be so kind and udpate on status of this fix!

KR Seals

Community Expert

Where did you get that Nikon Z2? I'm pretty sure you will find the answer to your question if you carefully read this thread completely.

Ken Seals - Nikon Z 9, Z 8, 14mm-800mm. Computer Win 11 Pro, I7-14700K, 64GB, RTX3070TI. Travel machine: 2021 MacBook Pro M1 MAX 64GB. All Adobe apps.

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photoaaron1

Participating Frequently

How do you know this? You and a few others have said this. Do you have actual evidence to back this or is this speculation? I don't want speculation, I want actual facts.

Keith Reeder

Participating Frequently

He doesn't know anything - the briefest logical analysis of his tripe tells you that: Adobe makes much of its money from photographers - why in God's name would it want to see the back of them?

Brainless conspiracy theory BS of the first order: he's been spouting the same crap for a while now, and the more he writes, the more ridiculous he looks.

Sanpanza

Known Participant

If you cannot see what AI means to photographers, you choose to remind blind. I can already take iPhone images and rebuild them into acceptable corporate headshots with AI. Within 5 years that low-end corporate headshot market will disappear. You can already create product shots using AI, so within 5 years a lot of that market will begin the see the impact of AI.

Adobe is a huge corporation and if think they do anything by mistake, you are fooling yourselves. If you cling to the horse-and-buggy notion of photography and Adobe, you will be a quaint artifact of the photography industry just like film shooters.

Adobe is just taking care of its bottom line.

Sanpanza

Known Participant

ADOBE is refusing to include tethering on high-end cameras because they want the camera manufacturers to pay for that development. Adobe feels emboldened by the idea that AI will destroy a lot of photography jobs in the near future, so why should they invest in photographers? Nope, they see the future as AI being far more profitable than photographers are to the bottom line.

My advice is to buy Capture 1 or use the Nikon software for capturing. The message is clear. Nikon sees photographers as dispensible because they are placing their bets on AI.

Keith Reeder

Participating Frequently

Utter drivel.

You need a new tinfoil hat, fella.

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Manuela26478617xv2a

Participant

Gibt es Informationen wann ein Tethering mit Nikon Z9 in LRClassic möglich ist?

Sean McCormack

Community Expert

Adobe rarely reveal when cameras will be added, though they do generally support where they can within a few versions. Here's the current list:

https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/kb/tethered-camera-support.html

Sean McCormack. Author of 'Essential Development 3'. Magazine Writer. Former Official Fuji X-Photographer.

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Noeinsyl

Participant

Hello, I take the liberty of contacting you because my Canon R6 Mark II 
is not recognized in connected mode. However, in the summary of the update 
it appears as compatible. I see the device visible in the corrections for example but 
when I want to launch the connected mode, it tells me that no device is connected.

Ian Lyons

Community Expert

While the Canon EOS R6 II raw files are supported by LrC, tethering is not. Cameras with tethering support are listed in the document found at https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/kb/tethered-camera-support.html

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Noeinsyl

Participant

ah thank you very much i did not go to the right place...
So, I hope it will be updated soon 😕😕

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voyager7777

Participating Frequently

I have a shoot coming up next week that requires tethered shooting and to my surprise Lightroom still doesn't support the Nikon Z9. The Z9 has been out for over a year now and the sdk has supported the Z9 for more than half a year but Lightroom hasn't included it?

Would it be fair to assume Lightroom will never support the Z9? (and therefore is becoming obsolete)