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OS: OSX Monterey 12.3.1
H/W: Mac Studio - M1 Max 32GB
Software: LRC 11.3.1
Camera: Nikon D850
Issue
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Start Teathered Capture, which creates a popup to relaunch LRC under Rosetta.
When LRC is running under Rosetta and you select start tether,
On the first attempt LRC crashes.
LRC needs to be restarted and the launched under Rosetta again.
On the second and subsequent "Start tethered capture", LRC fails to detect the attached Nikon D850 camera.
The camera is connected by a known working usb-C port via known working PRPteather usb cable, This same camera, cable setup works when conected to a windows 11 laptop running LRC 11.3.1
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Hi Rod,
Thanks for reaching out. We are sorry for the trouble with Lightroom Classic's tethering. We are here to help.
Could you please confirm if this has worked in the past and has stopped working since a recent update to the macOS or Lightroom Classic? Have you tried any troubleshooting steps?
Please try that if you have any other cable to test the tethering function.
There are a series of steps to help you potentially troubleshoot and fix the issues related to tether capture in Lightroom Classic in this article, and please give a detailed read through: https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/kb/troubleshoot-tethered-capture-lightroom.html
Let us know if this helps,
Thanks!
Sameer K
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Hi Sameer,
This is my first attempt tethered shooting with OSX monterey (12.3.1) and the Mac studio as it is a brand new machine. The cable and camera can be unpluged and pluged directly into a windows 11 laptop runing LRC 11.3.1 next to it and it tether captures fine.
I suspect that the issue is related LRC crash when you first start teathered capture under rosetta. I assume the crash details were uploaded to Apple/Adobe automatically.
The crash only ocurrs on the first attempt after a system boot/reboot. Any subsequent attempt there is no crash, but the camerea is not recognised. So there is either an OS structure that is left corupted of there is some state information that is maintained across LRC restarts. I have attached the crash report.
I have some interesting results from todays testing:
I only had the crash once, where yesterday it seemed crash on the first attempt after each reboot.
I tested the camera with 3 different USB cables, all atempts failed except one, were the camara was recognised. Repeating the test with the same cable did not work.
I am starting to think we have a race condition. Maybe the crash dump will shed some light.
Do you know when teathering be available nativeley for M1 architecture?
Regards
Rodney
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I am having the same issue. I have followed all the suggestions and camera is still not recgonized. Is there a solution yet?
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I am also having the same issue. Macbook Pro M1 with LrC and a Nikon D850 firmware C 1.21.
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At Chedric, you have not stated what macOS you are using. If it's the latest version 13.1 there are known issues, see the pined thread at the top of the discussion forum.
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Same here. All new, all up to date, sometimes it works with a shorter cable (original nikon) as opposed to a new 4.6 m, but keeps carshing with the short one anyway and sometimes it doesn't recognize the camera at all. Cannot figure out what makes it work this "sometimes", it seems completely random (disconecting, restart, taking cards out etc...).
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Has anyone had any luck with this. My D850 all of a sudden will not tether. It worked a few months ago with no issues. Ligthroom has been updated a few times since I last tehtered and I have also update to the latest Mac OS. The issue is not the cable. When I start LR and connect my camera I can import photos from the memory cards. It's only when I try to tether that the camera is not recognized. I would hate to switch to Capture One, but not being able to tether is a show stopper. Please help!!! Thanks!
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Has anybody found a solution? I am facing this same problem with my D750 on my brand new Mac Studio. I can import directly from my camera through the same tether cable, but the computer/LR cannot detect the camera for tethered capture. I just get a spinning wheel. I have tried my cable through various ports, adapted and unadapted. I pulled out my old computer, and it connects fine (this is not an acceptable workaround). I went out and bought a new USB-A to USB-C adapter. All my firmware and software is up-to-date.
Firmware is Ventura 13.0.1
Apple M1 Max chip
32G memory
LRC 12.1
This is incredibly frustrating, as part of what I purchased this computer for DSLR scanning, and am now SOL with a huge backlog. I already spent a few hours with Adobe support with the only suggestion to go buy a new cable, which makes no sense as a solution.
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I just found out there is a known issue with Ventura and LR tethering for Nikon cameras. All we can do is sit and wait for a fix. In the meantime, I've been using a Capture One free trial to tether. Considering permanently switching over.
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Very cool, Adobe ❤️
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Following this as I'm having the same issue with a Nikon D500.
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Upgraded to firmware 1.30 for D850. Now it works for me again.
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Still not working for me after upgrading firmware.
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What MacOS are you running?
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Ventura 13.1 on M2 MacBook Air
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I just upgraded to Ventura 13.2. I'm using a MacBook Air M1. D850 firmware at 1.30. Lightroom Classic 12.1.
Tethering still doesn't work. Oh well....
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Hi, it didn't work with fw 1.30 for 13.1 Ventura either, or you tried directly with 13.2? I am wondering whether I should upgrade iOS or not. Frankly, I am lucky I don't do photography for living, I'd really hit the roof. People spend thousands to have macs with lightroom just for photography and the bloody thing doesn't seem to work. Had a miniproject last week for which tethering would have been very useful and ended up going three rounds of shots for each of the 15 subjects looking at the pictures uploaded from the card. Not that many, but still annoying, for the kind of a set it was pretty important to look properly at the photos in the middle of the process. Will be shooting some film next WE so that I do some actual photography instead of fixing bugs and fiddling around constant software upgrades...
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I tried it with 13.1 on my M1 macMini and 13.2 on my M1 MacBook Air. Couldn't tether on either. Firmware on the D850 is at 1.30. Looks like the only difference between our two set ups is M1 versus M2.
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Alright, thanks!
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Same here.... I tried to tethering with my Nikon D5200 on Lighrtoom 12.1, and firmaware 1.03 and it didn t work. I tried with Capture One and it works perfectly !!! What s going on Adobe?
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No choice but to wait on an update to LRC. In the meantime, I've had no problems with Capture One.
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Please see: https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/p-mac-ventura-known-issues-please-read-... for information on this topic.
This thread is an unrelated issue.
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This situation is unfortunate but going forward I will be sure to check for issues before ugrading my OS or LRC. Luckily I can continue to work with Capture One.
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You can also just use Nikon's free tethering software NX tether which runs natively on M1 and M2 machines and set it up to tether import to a watched folder in Lightroom Classic so your images show up in Classic as you're shooting. This works just fine and is a good surrogate until Adobe and Nikon finally figure this out.