Tethering with Nikon to Lightroom and SD card

[MiLeigh]

I am new to tethering.  I have a Nikon Z6ii and a new Macbook Air.  I can get my images to tether in to Lightroom, but they do not save to the SD card.  Is there something I can do to get both? I have a high volume job coming up that I need to show clients images but would also like them saved on the SD card, as I work off of a desktop.

[Rob_Cullen · Accepted solution]

It is a limitation with Nikon cameras unfortunately! You will need to Copy the files from the Macbook to the Desktop by a file transfer method.

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

Notes on Nikon cameras

For all Nikon cameras:

• Tethering with the following models may be unreliable on Mac OS when burst shooting: D300, D300S, D700, D3, D3S, D3X, D90, D5000, D7000, D5100, D7200
• If you trigger the shutter with the tether bar capture button, the image must finish downloading before another photo can be captured. Triggering a capture with the shutter release button on the camera does not have this limitation.
• Images do not save to the compact flash card. They are downloaded only to the computer.
• If you're using Lightroom Classic version 8.1 or earlier, only one Nikon camera can be attached at a time for tether. In Lightroom Classic version 8.2 (February 2019 release), support for tethering multiple Nikon cameras has been provided. 
  
  

[MiLeigh]

Well that's frustrating.  Thanks for the info.

[QNetX]

That is odd because it was working (saving to both SD card and computer) the other day and for some reason now it is not and only saving to computer. I can't think of any settings I changed. I'm using a Z5. 

[ollyt rat]

This is a late reply, but I found this thread because I was looking for an update. I think this is still not possible when tethered directly to LrC, however, if you use Nikon Tether, you can save to both. I run Nikon Tether in the background and then enable Autoimport in LrC.  Works quite well with a small bonus that the Nikon software gives a quiet confirmation "Beep" with every capture  so you can here if something stops working... The software can be downloaded free from Nikon site...