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P: Tethering support requests and information

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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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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

New 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

New 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

New 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)

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dj_paige

Brainiac

Go back to the very first post in this thread, where the first two sentences say:

This post is applicable to Lightroom Classic.

ETAs for tethered support for specific cameras are not available.

Does that answer the question?

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voyager7777

Participating Frequently

No, it does not.

If they drop support for a major camera, they should just tell us so we can stop paying for the subscription and find a working alternative.

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stylish_mindset15A7

Participating Frequently

Adobe, it is time you start to understand. You forced us into subscription model, so we are not customers anymore. As a customer, we can understand the properties of a product and then, decide whether to buy it or not. Forced by your greed into subscription models you took us this opportunity. We shall be lemmings, just paing while praying. But guys, you still don't understand. As subscriptors we are your owners. So we don't beg, we command. So Adobe, deliver or we we will stop feeding your mills for no output. Our patience is over. The first of the big 3 has understood their customers are left alone by Adobe and has reacted. Thank you Nikon, shame on you Adobe.

I decided to stop pouring money into a company which never delivered. Begging 12 years for keyboard customisation in LR. 12 years beging for proper performance in LR. 12 years begging for a swiss german keyboard shorcut scheme. And now begging a year for Z9 tether support. While you just take the money I have to earn with your tools not supporting me getting my work done.

Bye Bye Adobe, it's over now. You did neither deserve my money nor my trust as a stakeholder in your capabilities. You decided to let down the clientele who made you big. You took money for PS for decades and you never even got this product straightforward and cleaned up. You sit on your chairs for years not even thinking about investing in LRC to get it flawless and performant.

https://nikonrumors.com/2022/12/22/nikon-z9-now-comes-with-free-capture-one-23-licence-and-free-overnight-shipping.aspx/

Above shows you Adobe is done with Photographers. And I am done with you. You can't beleive how good it feels to fill my lungs with fresh air and breathe the wind of change.

Keith Reeder

Participating Frequently

Nobody "forced" you to do anything; and you are not "photographers".

You not being happy with a particular aspect of Adobe's offer is your problem, and certainly not evidence that Adobe is "done with photographers".

Sanpanza

Known Participant

Just to bust your illusions about adobe, here is an example of how AI is replacing higher-end photographers: https://petapixel.com/2022/12/21/photos-used-to-generate-ai-images-for-client-so-photographer-never-shoots-again/

You are toast Keith and Adobe knows it.

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Fiore69

New Participant

I bought a Canon R6 mark 2 but I can't thether it with Lightroom, maybe it's not supported? I need it to work in the studio.

DdeGannes

Community Expert

At Fiore, the Canon R 6 MK II was released Nov 2022 not supported for tether capture. It takes several months for Adobe to provide tether capture for new camera models.

Example Canon R 7 was release in May 2022 tether capture support was provided in Dec 2022 with LrC update 12.1.

Surely Canon your camera manufacturer has provided you with Tether.support software?

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 15.0.1, PS 27.0; ) Camera Oly OM-D E-M1.

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Fiore69

New Participant

Thank you for your answer, yes of course I have Canon software for tethering, I'm used to using Adobe for a leaner workflow, however after your advice I tried to use it, I had some connection problems with the usb cable because in the settings of the R6 mk2 you have to make sure that some menu items are set correctly, after which I used Adobe LR with automatic import from a specific folder and after taking the photo with the Canon software I immediately find the raw file in the LR library . So now I can work, indeed I will tell you that the Canon live view is much more precise and there are many more options, if I get used to this working system I might not even use Adobe for tethering anymore. The only thing I don't like, I don't have the small shooting window directly in the software, I have to look for it on the desktop every time. Thanks for your help, I hope this helps others. Sorry for the mistakes, I don't speak English I used the translator.

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Lokitoz

Participating Frequently

I own the G85 and would like to tether it to Lightroom Classic on an M1 Macbook Pro.

I connect the camera via USB cable to the PC but LRc won't recognize it.

Is there a way to tether this camera to Lightroom so that when I take a photo I can immeditately see it on LRc ?

Thanks.

Ian Lyons

Community Expert

Cameras with tethering support in Lightroom Classic (LrC) are listed here https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/kb/tethered-camera-support.html You'll note that no Panasonic model is listed. You should probably check with Panasonic to see if they have a tethering plugin that can be used with LrC.

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Sebastian24105614hqg0

New Participant

Adobe,
it's been 3 months now, since I opened: ADB-26052006-M1Y1. There have been several updates for Lightroom, still Lightroom Classic is not able to shoot tethered with the Canon R5 C.
The R5 C is out since January 2022!
As I mentioned last time Capture One can do this for months already. What is your problem here? Why are you not implementing this?
Is Adobe for Hobbyists and Pros like me have to switch to Capture One to get our Cameras working now or what do you recommend?

This is really frustrating me and I'm considering to cancel the subscription finally.