P: Tethering support requests and information

[Rikk Flohr: Photography]

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.

[HjalmarW]

When are Lightroom going to make it possible for us sony shooters to shoot tethered directly in to LR. Sucks with auto import, takes 8 seconds. Is thsi a possibility for us in the future?

[Blue_River_Crossing]

Hi.

Sony ZV-E10 - Wondering if this camera is compatible with Lightroom Classic TEATHERING. Anyone knows?

[Ian Lyons]

Lightroom Classic doesn't support tethering of the Sony ZV-E10. More details on which vendors and cameras that are suppported can be found at https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/kb/tethered-camera-support.html

[Alan21885756v1lo]

I'm really confused about why Lightroom STILL doesn't support tethering with Sony cameras. It's almost like you guys are begging industry professionals to move to Capture One. I'm genuinely one of the few remaining people in my industry locally still running Lighroom now. What the heck is going on?

[Alan21885756v1lo]

I posted this thread earlier and a moderator moved it into a year old thread that absolutely does NOT answer the question. This is what I posted:

- I'm really confused about why Lightroom STILL doesn't support tethering with Sony cameras. It's almost like you guys are begging industry professionals to move to Capture One. I'm genuinely one of the few remaining people in my industry locally still running Lighroom now. What the heck is going on?

Please do not merge this with an irrelevant topic. I am a paying customer who would appreciate answers instead of my question being buried.

[DdeGannes]

If you look at the list of Cameras supported for Tether Capture it's basically specific Nikon and Canon select models a couple dozen of the multiple hundreds / thousands Digital Camera models available. So it's not only a snub of Sony.

Maybe it's related to lack of mutual cooperation between Adobe with the Camera Manufacturers?

I can tether just fine using my Olympus Camera’s software..

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

Is there a problem with Sony's tether software?

[Alan21885756v1lo]

They support every main camera from 2 out of the 3 top camera manufacturers. Sony are inexplicably left out and Adobe are saying absolutely nothing about it.

[thomas_bredenfeld]

as a longtime canon and sony user and a LR user from 1.0 beta i've a main catalog growing continously from it's very initial state up to today with currently 450k images. for the cataloging and administration features i'd never move away from LR where it shines as ever, even with such bulky catalog files.

but when it comes 1st to raw development and 2nd to connectivity i am/was more and more using other apps better suited for this: C1 and DXO pure raw for delicate images and C1 or sony/canon capturing utilites for tethering.
so i definitly second to your opinion about the poor connectivity between sony and LR.

imho sony has/has far inferior connectivity compared to canon and nikon (i've no hands on experience with fuji or olympus) with external hardware and software.

maybe sony teamed with C1 with delivering the in-box C1 express and is leaving out all others or their connection protocols tend to be near rocket science. i don't know.

for me the conclusion and recommendation is simply to use an app for a purpose where it really shines and construct workflows to connect theses apps together instead of hoping software comp X integrates everything i like into one single app.
so i'm usually use C1 to capture into a LR hotfolder, be it e.g. for batch slide scanning or product shots in the studio.

[Alan21885756v1lo]

Any chance as well actually making a public statement on Sony tethering - maybe tell your clown of an admin to stop merging my topic into this dead, utterly redundant thread?

[Rikk Flohr: Photography]

"Any chance as well actually making a public statement on Sony tethering - maybe tell your clown of an admin to stop merging my topic into this dead, utterly redundant thread?"

@Alan21885756v1lo 

All requests for tether support for unsupported cameras are merged into this thread. It isn't dead nor is it redundant. One reason, among others, is to give Product Managers and Engineering Team members a single source for customer information regarding tethering. The same is done for Camera Raw Format Support, Camera-matching Profile Support, and Lens Profile Support. This is far more efficient than herding the random scattering of dozens of posts across years of forum threads. 

Posts regarding tethering "how-to", "bug reports", and "feature requests" are welcome and encouraged as individual posts.  However: "Why isn't brand? model? mode? etc, supported?", belong here. 

Adobe's public statement regarding tether support has not changed and is in the link on the original post in this thread. If there is a change that Helpx doc will be updated. 

Lastly, I recommend you review the forum Terms of Use: https://www.adobe.com/legal/terms.html  also linked at the bottom of each page.

[Alan21885756v1lo]

How can the question belong in this thread when you can't even answer it? 

Adobe are not providing tether support for Sony cameras and there is no mention of why that is the case. Absolutely nothing in your original post refers to why that's the case or if it is going to change in the future.

[sk_23734]

Wow, I thought Z9 users had it bad! Came here to get some answers on that, only to find Sony users in a worse position - they must be tearing their hair out. And what makes it worse is this Adobe Coporate Wall of Silence, meaning that you don't even know if they're working on something or not. How wonderful.

[Alan21885756v1lo]

Are Adobe willing to clarify their stance on Sony tethering (both now and in the near future) or are they just recommending that any professional with a Sony camera stop their Adobe subscription and purchase Capture One instead?

[Reg5C8C]

I know it is very new, but any idea when the EOS R6 Mark ii will be recognized for tethering in Lightroom Classic

[dj_paige]

Adobe never announces this in advance. It will be available when it is available. Please check this after each new release of Lightroom Classic: https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/kb/tethered-camera-support.html

[andrewb13465751]

Funny enough, its such a poorly implemented system and rather than find a work around for my r6 mii I think Im personally going to just jump ship.

[Jeffrey Maguire]

One year after the Z9 release and Nikon and Adobe still haven’t sorted out the support of tethered capture in Lightroom Classic. For a camera which is Nikon’s new professional “Flagship” claimed to be ‘UNSTOPPABLE’ that is unless you’re trying to tether the thing! We’ll most likely get Content Authenticity Initiative tech in the Z9 before tethering support in LRC. 

[Run27471550vpi6]

Is X-T5 do tether? And I can't find Nostalgic Neg film sim. in newest LR

[photoaaron1]

Adobe has had ample opportunity to deal with this.  The Z9 was released a year ago.  There are cameras on the tethered supported list that were released around the same time.  Its bad enough that LR moves like a snail with Z9 files, not being able to shoot tethered is a professional embarrassment.

[Sanpanza]

From what I am hearing, this is Adobe's way of forcing camera makers to pay Adobe to develop software compatible with all the camera features. 

So there is a stalemate and the only option high-end Nikon, Sony and Canon owners have is to buy Capture One.

Using Nikon software is another option but if you try and use it with Lightroom, the software is extremely slow. So there you have it. Adobe vs. the World. Photographers are expendable since they don't see them as a profit center in the future since AI is going to put a lot of the lowered ones out of business.

[kirkc90637677]

WTF Nikon and Adobe!!! Get it together!!! I've had my Z9 forever and I still can't shoot tethered! Totally unacceptable ! Why buy top end products if you have to shoot at low end options. This is totally  unacceptable. 

[gillesdebda]

Hello team,

I just installed Lightroom Classic 12.1 on my Mac under Ventura 13.0.1

I tried to thether my Nikon Z7II via LRC in WIFI mode. LRC tells me my Z7II is not detected.

My Mac is well connected to the WIFI from my Z7II et Nikon Wireless Transfer Utility is up.

Could you help me or it is a bug ?

To be more complete tethering with a USB-C cable works fine.

Thanks.

Gilles

[defaultym7jm7m0ofdq]

Hello, I do not use wifi but have the same camera and software and today was a big frustration, with USB 3.0 tether pro cable I was not able to tether... It just could not find camera...ahh

[determined_mindset157F]

Is this true? Even after the newest update of Lightroom, the tethering of the Canon EOS R5 C is still not possible.

[stylish_mindset15A7]

Don't forget They offendingly ignore the pro-aimed Z9. This for More than a
year by now.
They sleep ignorantly in it once more