Teathered Shooting with Lightroom 4

I've been tethered shooting with Canon for about 3+ years (EOS Utility & DPP, Breeze DSLRremotePro & BBpro), but never had sustained success with Lightroom 2 or 3 for tethered shooting. Lightroom 4, so far, looks pretty good with respect to tethered shooting. But I do have a few open issues with Lightroom and tethering and would like ask others if they have solutions.
1. I haven't found a keyboard shortcut to open the "Tethered Capture Settings" window. Is there such a shortcut? The only way I can see to get to that window is use Ctrl T to open the Tethered Capture Window and then use the mouse to click on the icon in the far right low corner of the Tethered Capture Window which then opens the "Tethered Capture Settings" window.
2. There doesn't appear to be a way to select the number of digits for the sequence counter for tethered shooting. It's fixed at 3, which isn't always enough for some things I shoot. I'd like it to default to 4, with an option to set it to 3 or 2. Is there a way to do that?

If it's not supported in LR3.2RC, I think there is not be a big chance that it will be supported in LR 3.2 when it finally comes out. Maybe in some later 3.x release.
Beat Gossweiler
Switzerland

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Does anybody know when Lightroom 3.2 will be updated for teathered shooting with the LEICA S2? It is still showing the camera as not being supported.

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when will lightroom support tethered shooting with the NIKON D4S?

Okay so I should be asking Adobe direct, thanks.
I did find that Nikon released the developer software for the D4S back in february so just could'nt uderstand the delay especially as adobe never seems to be late taking my money each month.

Problems shooting in tethered capture with Lightroom 4.4 using Nikon D7000.

I've been shooting in tethered capture mode for about one year with few problems until recently. I'm using Lightroom 4.4 in conjuction with a Nikon D7000. Operating system is Windows 7, 32 bit.    I'm now getting a dialog box mssg stating: "A captured file could not be saved. Your drive may be full, or may no longer be accessible."   Both of the drives that I use have tons of remaining storage space available. Any suggestions on how I should start the trouble shooting process with this problem would be greatly appreciated!

Files are being saved to being saved to the hard drive of my computer (Windows 7, 32 bit operating system) and to and external hard drive. As I mentioned both drives have plenty of additional storage space available. I should also mention that many times when attempting Tether Capture the dialog box stating "A captured file could not be saved" does not appear at all. At those times Lightroom simply does not recognize the camera.
Thus far I have taken the following steps as instructed in "Lightroom Help / Troubleshoot teetered capture in Lightroom" :
   1. Make sure that you're using the most recent version of Lightroom - DONE
   2. Make sure that your camera is supported (did this previously at the time I started using tethered capture).
   3. Turn the camera on and off - DONE
   4. Turn off the camera and the computer -DONE
   5. Try a different USB cable and USB port -DONE
   6. Check your hard disk for space - DONE
   7. Reset Lightroom preferences - DONE
   8. Make sure your camera's firmware is up to date - DONE
   9. Close applications that could be causing a conflict - DONE
10. Check that the transfer mode in the camera is set appropriately - DONE
11. Search Adobe Community Help for a support document on your camera - DONE
12. Try tethered shooting with another application - I TRIED TETHERED SHOOTING ON A DIFFERENT
        COMPUTER AND IT WORKED JUST AS IT SHOULD.
I'm wondering if the problem I am having is related more to the operating system than to Lightroom. I say this because at the time that I first set up tethered capture there were some obstacles related to the Windows 7 operating system that I had to overcome.
At any rate I need additional ideas - this is driving me crazy!

How do I move photos from laptop to desktop WITH Lightroom Edits?

I have Lightroom on my laptop and on my desktop.
I've just done a big shoot with my camera tethered to Lightroom on my laptop, and applied some develop settings as the photos were imported. I also did a little cropping and a few other adjustments when I stopped shooting for lunch.
Now, I'd like to move these photos with the edit history to my desktop machine because it's got the big guns for processing photos.
How do I do this? There must be a way!
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--Michael

In LR on the laptop, in the Library module select the photos you want to move.
"Export as catalog".
On the desktop, in LR "import from catalog" using the exported catalog.
Or you could just import the whole laptop catalog depending on your needs.

Trouble tethering my Canon 1Ds mk II with Lightroom 4.1 on Mac OSX 10.6.8.

I had to get a Mac just to be able to use tethered shooting with my brand new 1Ds mk III (yes, brand new after 8 years not being used by it's previous owner, had 200 exposures on it)
Windows XP was not an option and Canon support told me that they never had any intentions towards supporting the Camera on Win Vista or Win 7 (even though these OSs were released when the camera was still the top end of their product line on the market!)
Long story short, I researched compatibility for Lightroom and found out, that 4.1 would be the last to support the 1Ds mk II. (Can somebody confirm that?!)
I bought LR 4 last year and am waiting for LR6 with my Win machine, so I installed LR 4 on the mac and denied any updates to be able to use my Camera..
The mac runs OSX 10.6.8, which is, to my knowledge, the last version to support the 1Ds mk II and it's EOS utility, etc. (How about that one?)
Sure, I should've bought the 1Ds mk III, considering all the money I invested just to be able to properly use the 1Ds mk II.. but that's not the issue here and if I should happen to have any success with my work, I will upgrade to a used 1Dx in a few years.
To my problem at hand:
I installed LR4.1 on my mac and set up tethered shooting with the Camera connected to the mac. (It works fine with EOS utility too)
Camera with its settings is recognized by the tool and can be set off remotely.
Pictures are displayed and develop preset is applied.
However, sometimes it works just fine but then the camera stops taking pictures (Exposure is made, with AF, Shutter, etc. working fine, but pictures aren't saved to CF card nor transferred to Lightroom) Also, sometimes the camera isn't recognized anymore.. This happened repeatedly within 10 to 20 exposures, so not a rare issue here!
When I turn the camera off and back on, it sometimes does and sometimes doesn't work again..
same goes for the firewire cable that sometimes does and sometimes doesn't reset the tool when I unplug it.
I also sometimes noticed the CF-card LED continuously indicating whatever.. had to remove the CF card to stop it from doing that.
In short:
What could be the problem with my setup and is there an easy way around that?
I really depend on this feature working properly.
Your help is really appreciated
Mischa

My camera is a 1Ds mk II..
and for that one it says
All versions tested. All versions tested. Supported only through Lightroom 4.1.
however, it also says
Windows XP, Vista, 7; Mac OS X 10.5 or 10.6
which is plain wrong, because Canon never supported any drivers for Windows Vista or Win 7, not to speak of XP 64bit. (You cannot connect the camera via firewire, without the device drivers!)

How to use new iPad3 in conjunction with Lightroom on desktop iMac?

Workflow: Will this work? Camera RAW to iPad3 to Lightroom???
I would like to use my new iPad3 in conjunction with my already-established Lightroom workflow on my desktop Mac. What I have in mind is to shoot in RAW (Sony SLT A-65 - 24.3 megapixels) and then, in the field, transfer my photos from the camera to the iPad3 (64GB version). On the iPad I might do some rudimentary editing - deleting duds, etc. - but I will still do all my significant editing in Lightroom on the Mac. Thus, I need to import the photos, from the iPad, in either RAW or DNG into LightRoom once I get back to my office. My questions are:
Is it possible to import RAW photos into the iPad3 and either keep them in RAW or convert them to DNG?
Is it possible to export RAW or DNG photos from the iPad3 into Lightroom?
What app(s) do I need on the iPad3 to make this happen?
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You can load your RAW images to any iPad either using the Camera Connection kit that comes with two dongles. One for inserting an SD card from your camera to load the images. Or the USB dongle which you can connect the USB cord for your camera to the iPad to load the images. There are a few CF card readers that will work with the iPad if your camera uses those a Google search will feret them out for you. Additionally, you can also load images to iPad, iPhone or iPod touch (as well as laptops and desktop cumputers) using WiFi as you capture them using an EyeFi SD card.
http://www.eye.fi/
A good app for working with EyeFi on the iPad is Shuttersnitch (though, it does not coordinate with Lightroom)
http://www.shuttersnitch.com/
Unfortunately their isn't any RAW processing image editing software for the iPad that Lightroom can make use of the edits. Though there is an app called Photosmith that will allow you to rate, label, add keywords etc. then you can upload that info to Lightroom on your laptop or desktop cimputer and have that info synced to the images. You do have to transfer the image files themselves from the iPad to your workstation seperately.
http://www.photosmithapp.com/

Tethered Shooting with Nikon does not save on CF/SD Cards

Has Lightroom 5 now a solution for the tethered shooting with Nikon cameras where no save on the CF/SD cards takes place?
If not, will this covered in the future?

An external HDD does not help for the most common image loss during tethered shooting: Transfer problems.
When any transmission problem occurs while shooting and the images are not stored on the memory card, they will be gone. I can't tell you how many images I lost because I had some cable problem while being tethered.
Tethering without a copy on memory card is not a good idea, really. So since the feature is available (otherwise it wouldn't work in digiCamControl, they don't install a new firmware or use super secret camera drivers or anything) I can't understand why Adobe does not support it.

Getting started with Lightroom - Basic assistance!

Ok, forgive me - just starting with Lightroom (and anxious to get going!). I have a new book but I have questions on some other basics.
First of all, I have a Canon camera - I shoot my pics in Raw + jpg. After shooting my first raw shots, I have them on my laptop (Win) - they stay here before during the work in process (sort, process, and pick what I want to post on my site). Then I move all of them to a backup drive - which is also backed up on another drive.
Your suggestions - what is my first step? Do I import these into Lightroom (currently on my laptop drive)? Do I want to want to import all my pics (from library/folders on external drive) or just my 'need to work with' on laptop drive? What is the most effective us of the catalogs - do you only have one main catalog, one per 'shoot', etc?
As I start to work with these - will I ultimately save these in .raw since they are in .cr2 format? Is it best to convert all of them?
Once they are imported and I work with them and ultimately move them over to my external drive, will the location have any effect on this - i.e. since they were imported?
Functionality wise, I am ready to start using this - it's the initial stuff regarding my workflow that I am curious about!
Do you find this as a complement or replacement to Adobe PSE? Maybe I am used to 'opening a file' or doing the catalog in Adobe PSE that is throwing me off as I convert to a new process! Although, I didn't really use it for organization, just minor PP.
Thank you much for your response...

I'm sure other people will be able to provide more in-depth answers to some of your questions, as I have little experience of Canon raw file formats or PSE. However, I'd like to offer you a couple of suggestions regarding your workflow.
1. The FIRST thing you should do after you download the files onto your laptop is to make the backups. Do this here and now, not later. If you don't, you only have one copy of your precious photos. If something goes wrong, you're going to kick yourself if you don't have a backup. Make sure you have your external backup at this stage too, if your laptop drive fails, then your backup is not much good to you if it's on the same drive.
2. Personally, before I import the photos into LR, I do a quick cull to get rid of what is obviously junk, ie. out of focus/unnecessary shots/etc. RAW files take up a lot of space and the more of them I import into LR, the slower it will be. That isn't to say I ONLY import the ones I am going to work with, rather, I DON'T import the ones I'm NOT actually going to keep and store. I do import photos that I eventually don't work with but I keep some anyway because at some point in the future I may come back to them for whatever reason.
As they say, your mileage may vary and it's worth trying different workflows until you find one that is quick and comfortable for you.
Kind regards,
MCV

New Nikon Workflow with Lightroom

Just thought I would share my new workflow with everyone, in case anyone is not happy with the raw conversion provided by Lightroom and would rather use Capture NX to do the raw conversion on their files, but still use Lightroom for cataloging and ranking their photos (as well as exporting for web, etc).
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2. Import the photos from your filesystem, using the "Copy photos to a new location and import" option. This is so you can work with a copy of the original, rather than the original.
3. Do your normal process for choosing which photos you would like to take the time to process, and which you would like to just throw away. I use the pick/rejected flags for mine.
4. Filter your photos by flag status, so only the picks are showing.
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9. Now you should have a folder inside your Lightroom catalog called "Lightroom Auto Imported Photos". Open that folder, select ALL the photos in the folder and hit "P" to mark them all as picks. Trust me on this one. =)
10. Now within Lightroom, drag all the photos at once into the folder containing your imported photos from step 2. You should see all your tiffs beside all your raw NEFs. And since you have a filter turned on to only show your picks in this folder, all your other non pick original raw files will be hidden.
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14. Once my photos look the way I want, I then export them to JPEG. I have set up a Photoshop droplet fo

14. Once my photos look the way I want, I then export them to JPEG. I have set up a Photoshop droplet for Lightroom that will then do all my sharpening after export.
That's it! I know it sounds like a lot of steps, but once you've done it a couple of times it goes by really quick. I'm really loving most things about Lightroom in terms of its cataloging and export options. But the image quality of the Lightroom raw conversions just isn't there yet. I've found by integrating both Capture NX and Lightroom I can get top quality results while still gaining advantage of Lightroom's many nice features. It took me a few days of exploration and experimentation to nail down the optimal workflow for my needs. Hopefully this will help some others out and maybe give them some ideas of their own toward a better workflow.
Please feel free to share your thoughts or own experience on all of this.
Thanks to Tony Long for his suggestion in this thread, which caused me to go on a search for the optimal Lightroom/Capture workflow: http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx?7@@.3bc719df/3
If you are interested in taking a look at the final output of the workflow listed above, please look here: http://photos.unsavory.com/p634883589
Cheers everyone!
-©aine

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I am working on a hardware/software plan to streamline my digital photography workflow. I have been doing some research
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Best,
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Hi
At this stage LR hasn't the ability to tether to a camera without additional software. this is a feature that has been asked for many times. I do not know of any other software that comes close to the functionality of Nikon CC Pro 2 for those on a PC. I use CC Pro 2 with LR 2.4 and a D2Xs and although it may take 5-6 seconds for an image to appear using a watched folder it is a wonderful way to shoot for specific situations such as low light panos or with clients wanting to view your work on-site.
CC Pro 2 allows you to work unobtrusively once you are set up and is particularly good for candids or photography in a public space as people are not put off by the photographer behind the camera. I would suggest a setup like Kelby's or McNally's which uses a Manfrottos accessory arm to place your laptop next to your camera as any other method is a pain if you are moving equipment around. In low light I would close the viewfinder to ensure stray light doesn't affect the exposure.
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http://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom/kb/tethered-camera-support-lightroom-4.html
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