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.

[johnrellis]

Moderators, @Rikk Flohr: Photography, please merge with the FAQ:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/p-tethering-support-requests-and-inform...

[Arbiter090]

Lightroom doesn't support R5 MK II tethering yet.  It supports R6 Mk II though.... What the heck?  Folks at Adobe, get to it, and use your Adobe Muscle to push Canon to give you the SDK you supposedly need to make this happen (Capture One Supports Since Aug 2024).  The Auto Import is a cruddy bandaid and my new $4000 Camera is a brick for my process without this feature. 

Get this done please, it's been long enough it's now embarrassing.  This is definitely now a technical issue/bug in my book. 

Capture One supports R5 Mk II Tethering, and so why can't the flagship editing software company get it done sooner than they can?  Let's see this in the next update please and fix this bug!

-Chris

NOTE:  Here's the capture One data showing they support this feature since August 2024.....  C'mon

https://support.captureone.com/hc/en-us/articles/360002718118-Camera-Models-and-RAW-Files-Supported-...

Canon R5 Mark II:
- Version Added: 16.4.5
- Required Run Modes: Pro
- File Support: CR3
- Tethered/Live View/Wireless: Yes/Yes/Yes
- Notes: Supports ReTether.

Release OverviewReleased on August 29, 2024, Capture One 16.4. 5 is a service release containing new features and improvements, such as Multiple Folders in Live for Studio, support for Canon R5 Mark II and Canon R1, and bug fixes.

[bital_7635]

Supported tethered capture cameras in Lightroom classic is listed here : 

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

Canon R5 mark ii is not part of it even though the camera was released last year. 

Other tools are already having this fonctionnality (like Canon DPP4 and Capture One). When do you plan to do something ? 

[Arbiter090]

This IS a bug, not a discussion topic.  R5 MK II Has been out for almost a year, with other software already supporting it.  Either explain the real reason why you can't do this , or just get it done. Don't give me some 4 year old junk post about SDKs (SDK with R5 Mk II CAME OUT 12/5/2024) not being available, you are ADOBE.....  Is Capture One now the Zoom to your Webex? 

This is like Lamborghini being constitutionally incapable of producing more than 180 HP for their supercars.  Yeah, they look nice, but they can only do 60 MPH....   Their brand and the price they have is

elite and a premium. 

Also, I am not asking for an obscure camera like the ACME 5 Megapixel Floppy Express 2.12, ITS ONE OF THE CANON FLAGSHIP CAMERAS of 2025!!

You guys are not bargain basement photo editing software.  YOU ARE THE STANDARD.  Get this done!

-Chris

********* Original Post **********

Lightroom doesn't support R5 MK II tethering yet.  It supports R6 Mk II though.... What the heck?  Folks at Adobe, get to it, and use your Adobe Muscle to push Canon to give you the SDK you supposedly need to make this happen (Capture One Supports Since Aug 2024).  The Auto Import is a cruddy bandaid and my new $4000 Camera is a brick for my process without this feature. 

Get this done please, it's been long enough it's now embarrassing.  This is definitely now a technical issue/bug in my book. 

Capture One supports R5 Mk II Tethering, and so why can't the flagship editing software company get it done sooner than they can?  Let's see this in the next update please and fix this bug!

-Chris

NOTE:  Here's the capture One data showing they support this feature since August 2024.....  C'mon

https://support.captureone.com/hc/en-us/articles/360002718118-Camera-Models-and-RAW-Files-Supported-...

Canon R5 Mark II:
- Version Added: 16.4.5
- Required Run Modes: Pro
- File Support: CR3
- Tethered/Live View/Wireless: Yes/Yes/Yes
- Notes: Supports ReTether.

Release OverviewReleased on August 29, 2024, Capture One 16.4. 5 is a service release containing new features and improvements, such as Multiple Folders in Live for Studio, support for Canon R5 Mark II and Canon R1, and bug fixes.

[Colorful_warrior7649]

I purchased an R5C two years ago last Month and I’ve spent two years trying to get Adobe to add the camera to tethered camera list. Even yesterday at the BILD show in NY I spoke with Lisa and Estaban, from Adobe. She kept on telling me they were working on it which is the same BS they have said for The last 2 years. Truth is, Adobe is blaming canon but according to senior executives at canon they are lying. Adobe might be regarding or reclassifying the R5C into the cinema class of cameras which it is and is not. It is a hybrid but it is a camera that is ahead of its time. Come on Adobe wake up. EVOTO works with the camera, so you can too unless the Chinese are smarter than you. Get off your asses and publish the reason you cannot make it work or fix your issue!! The least you should do is publish reasons why it takes you 2-3 years to add a camera when new cameras come out yearly and they get added! Explain. 

[Manuel �ngel_Azor Mol3915]

Para cuando podremos conectar a lightroom los usuarios de sony a 6600

[AxelMatt]

Please describe exactly what you mean with "connect Sony 6600 with Lightroom".

The Sony A6600 was supported bei Lightroom Classic since version 9.0.

Or do you mean the Tethering support? See here which camera are supported: A list of cameras that can be tethered to Lightroom Classic

Adobe makes no statements about when which camera is supported and whether a particular camera is supported at all

[Manuel �ngel_Azor Mol3915]

si me refiero a conectar por tethering, es ligtroom quien debe lanzar compatibilidad 

[dj_paige]

It's all explained here: https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/p-tethering-support-requests-and-inform...

[Manuel �ngel_Azor Mol3915]

pues eso que para cuando compatibilidad para hacer tethering con la sony a 6600

[dj_paige]

DUPLICATE THREAD — DO NOT RESPOND HERE

reply at https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/para-cuando-podremos-conectar-a-lightro... 

[juliek65834321]

So there is no tethering in the update for Sony A7III?

[John Waller]

Unfortunately no.

A list of cameras that can be tethered to Lightroom Classic (adobe.com)

I suspect it may be too old since it was released in 2018. Tethering support starts for the A7IV released in 2021.

[johnrellis]

It looks like LR is relying on Sony's Camera Remote SDK (just as it relies on the Canon and Nikon SDKs), and the SDK only supports a limited number of cameras (scroll down to "Specifications"):

https://pro.sony/ue_US/digital-imaging/camera-remote-toolkit

So maybe direct your feedback to Sony as well.

[John Waller]

Good to know @johnrellis 

[Geise5E66]

Unfortunately the update didn't help us with Sony A7iii, however I have been tethering using this tip from this video. It's a step by step to do it: https://youtu.be/gMDLoqrbJY8?si=BDacL5PCN_-cU2wq

[Kike San Martin]

It doesn't make sense. Lightroom has always supported older Canon cameras. Saying that Lightroom now supports Sony cameras but does not support the legendary A7III and A7RIII is ridiculous. Millions of A7III and A7RIII users are requesting that Adobe add these cameras for tethering capability.

[dj_paige]

@Kike San Martin 

It is Sony who did not include tethering of these cameras in the SDK. It was not Adobe's decision, they use what Sony provides. This was explained earlier in this thread by @johnrellis 

[joeys87488225]

Is it really a SDK issue? Because Capture One perfectly tethers my Sony A7III.

[johnrellis]

"Is it really a SDK issue? Because Capture One perfectly tethers my Sony A7III."

Yes. Here is the list of cameras currently supported by Sony's Camera Remote Toolkit,

which doesn't include the ILCE-7M3:

"ILX-LR1, ILCE-1, ILCE-1M2, ILCE-9M3, ILCE-9M2, ILCE-7RM5, ILCE-7RM4A, ILCE-7RM4, ILCE-7CR, ILCE-7SM3, ILCE-7M4, ILCE-7CM2, ILCE-7C, ILCE-6700, BURANO (MPC-2610), ILME-FX6V/ILME-FX6T (Ver. 3.00 or later), ILME-FX3 (Ver. 2.00 or later), ILME-FX30, PXW-Z200, HXR-NX800, ILME-FX3A, ILME-FX2, ZV-E1, ZV-E10M2​
BRC-AM7, ILME-FR7 (Ver. 3.00 or later), DSC-RX0M2 (Ver. 3.00 or later)"

LR relies on the libraries provided by the camera manufacturers, whereas Capture One does not.