tethering directly from my D810 to my iPad

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Hi I'm from Belgium but I'll put this in English so maybe I'll get an answer before to-morrow evening as I want to use this on a shoot.

I never used tethering before but now I do have a new iPad and I want to do a tethering on a shoot with my Nikon D810 and my iPad.

So as the 810 doesn't have WIFI I've bought a cable but now I don't know how I can get my shots into Lightroom mobile.

I've looked on the internet and find this : How to Shoot Tethered to an iPad via Lightroom Mobile - YouTube

from Terry White but he explains from Lightroom on a Mac and then send to any mobile but I don't have my Mac with me on location - therefore I do have my iPad.

So is there a way to go directly from my camera to my iPad to show the shot directly on my iPad after every shot?

I suppose this must be possible.

I'm a cloud user as well.

If you're speaking Dutch do it in Dutch then 🙂

Jao vdL · Accepted Answer

Indeed you cannot do this using Lightroom on the iPad. IPads are not yet good replacements for a full computer for a photography workflow: Jao's photo blog: A mobile workflow with Lightroom?

I believe there are some non-Adobe apps that can do this though through a camera connection kit. Also there are wifi sd cards that have iOS apps that you can use to wirelessly tether to an iPad. The latter like the cards from eye-if are probably your best bet.

KRSTF · Answer

Another option is to just connect the camera with a cable, open photos app and shoot. It is a workaround. You get no features (rating, edits, copying of edits), but you get big previews. BUT it is a workaround, I wouldn't go that route. The iPad LR Tether feature is really missing and is the only reason I have to borrow macbook from time to time. &#128542;

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