Lightroom 3 and tethered support...

I work with many professionals on a daily basis and more and more find they like Lightroom. The workflow is smooth and intuitive and the features are useful and effective. The most common complaint however, is the lack of direct tethered support. Reading John Nack's forums some time ago it was noted that the 'Import' feature was an effective workflow. I couldn't disagree more and many many pro shooters fault Adobe for not being able to use the app in a studio environment. Are we finally going to see direct tethered support in Adobe Lightroom 3? Workarounds and plugins are less than ideal.

carson.jones wrote:
Workarounds and plugins are less than ideal.
Well, what exactly would you be willing to pay for this functionality? Now, take it for granted that simply clicking a mouse button to fire the camera and make a capture ain;t enough...I shoot with a Phase One 6x4.5 camera and a Phase One P65+ back. Just clicking the shutter doesn't interest me all that much. I want to be able to set the F stop and shutter speed as well as ISO on the camera. It would also be nice to be able to adjust the user preferences for custom functions and be able to set up and fire a whole series of either HDR brackets or a series of focus brackets...
Is this the sort of functionality your pro would expect/want?
Then you are in for a world of hurt...
The system level support for thee functions are a big investment of engineering support per camera. Exactly which cameras would you expect this sort of support for? Pro level cameras? Mid-level cameras? ALL cameras? Camera Raw/Lightroom support over 230 cameras at this stage (more cameras added each version).
Do you expect this professional level support to be free? What would you pay for this? What would the pros you work with it be willing to pay? Did I mention this would be a massive engineering effort? What features in Lightroom 3 would you be willing to give up to get this sort of hardware support in Lightroom?
Just asking cause what you are asking for has some pretty massive ramifications...

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A: What were you using before your precious D600 showed up today.
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C: Have a nice glass of wine tonight and enjoy your $2K investment. I’m personally looking forward to savoring a next generation photographic paradigm.
We did enjoy some vino last night! I was thinking I would possibly jump ship to Sony A99 and just switch to all Zeiss glass with autofocus, but I'm not convinced that the EVF is for me, and I'm really not a video shooter, mostly just landscape and real estate. Also, I the Sony turned out to be priced a bit too high for me personally in comparision to the D600.
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