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.

[Manuela26478617xv2a]

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

[Sean McCormack]

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

[DdeGannes]

Nikon? Adobe? Apple? who knows. 
See known issues.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/p-mac-ventura-known-issues-please-read-...

See the info from the Lightroom Queen forum.

[Sanpanza]

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]

Utter drivel.

You need a new tinfoil hat, fella.

[photoaaron1]

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]

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]

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.

[Keith Reeder]

Again: grow up and keep your asinine conspiracy theories to yourself. You know precisely nothing about Adobe's plans (and to the extent they've commented, they say the exact opposite of your crap) or about the fate of photography, and only an idiot would extrapolate the current situation into some sort of impending doom for photography.

In case it escaped your attention (and I have to assume it did, based on your nonsense): cars didn't result in the extinction of horses; photography didn't result in the end of painting.

Both of these outcomes were predicted by deluded prophets of doom like you...

[jop33605919]

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.

[defaultym7jm7m0ofdq]

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]

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.

[auttapolt13363986]

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

No camera detected

[Bill Sprague]

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

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

[Hendrik Holnäck]

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? 😞

[Hendrik Holnäck]

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?

[jimmyc3317266]

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]

@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.

[AndrewButlerPhotographer]

I've just shot tethered to my working Mac with my D850 for the first time since late October 2022!

Took my old (non Ventura) Mac as backup thotugh!

[DdeGannes]

@AndrewButlerPhotographer , was that using Lightroom Classic 12.2 and macOS Ventura 13.3.1 the latest updates, please let us know?

[AndrewButlerPhotographer]

It's actually still Ventura 13.0.1. but with the LR 12.2 updates. I didn't update Ventura again until the dust has settled for fear of complicating things further.

The whole lack of tethering has been disasterous for me, most of my pro work is tethered. The only lifefline that I've had is that my old 2015 MacBook Pro hasn't been updated for a bit so I've been shooting on an older version of Lightroom and then tranfering files across which isn't ideal; without the old Mac I'd have been totally stuffed. 

[Dominika285028153u2k]

Hello, please, do you know when will the Canon R6 mark II be able to use tether capture in Adobe Lightroom Classic? I really need this function! 😞 

[DdeGannes]

See the list of Camera Models supported by Lightroom Classic for tether capture.

https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/kb/tethered-camera-support.html?red=a&clickref=1011lwAIt29...

[Anders28589145d4hr]

It looks like Nikon Z9 is ready for Teathering using for MAC OS only, but not for windows. When will it be ready for Windows?  I really liked the way I worked with my D850 in the studio with Teathering, looking forrward to do the same with Z9, or perhaps it new ways to do it I do not know.

Anders

[Sanpanza]

So LR tethering works on my Laptop buy not my new Mac Studio. Does anyone have a clue? I updated LR classice and restarted my computer.