Comments on: Shooting tethered with Canon gear

By: Dale

Dale — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:07:50 +0000

I shoot with the Canon 5D Mark ll and I have tried using LR many times and it still crashes on OS 10.6.8. I am using LR 3.3 and everything is up to date. I am just going to stick to the Canon Software.

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 05:36:49 +0000

Not sure I understand what you mean about length of time to finished print. From capture to computer save is pretty much instant, but to print depends on how much post production editing you do, what kind of printer you send to, the printers ppm rate, whether you print on glossy, matte, luster, and at what dpi rate. Color versus black and white also factor in…too many variables here to answer.

By: Jim Pavlik

Jim Pavlik — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:46:14 +0000

Thinking of shooting tethered for the 1st time early next year myself. Also printing onsite as well. Can you tell me the length of time from camera click to finished print? And were you able to shoot other images as the print was being made?
Thanks, Jim

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 00:55:09 +0000

Have you updated LR? I seem to recall a patch that was released regarding the 5D that rendered tether support unusable…

http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/2011/09/lightroom-3-5-and-camera-raw-6-5-now-available.html

Perhaps you could roll back LR to an earlier version if an auto upgrade put you on a version that made it not available anymore

By: George

George — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:15:19 +0000

Hi Jason,

Nice work.I shoot tethering with a 5D MkII but have experienced immense problems.The system crashes or freezes very very often.I only use Canon’s software and a mac OSX 10.6.8 which I understand Canon suggests it experiences problems?

Should I opt for another software such as the Capture 1?

Many thanks

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 15:35:49 +0000

I’m not on Lion so could not speak to this specifically, but believe the Canon Utilities still work on the mac natively. Did you check the Canon website for a software update?

By: Michael Rose

Michael Rose — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 14:22:20 +0000

Hi there, not sure if this is a place to ask questions but, with OS X Lion support for Rosetta (and therefore PowerPC) apps has been removed. Any idea if there is a way to run EOS Capture Utility or something that’ll do the same?

By: StrangeRover

StrangeRover — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:25:01 +0000

Fantastic info, Jason.
Do you have any insight on using this setup to shoot tethered video?
I think using the ‘Live View” mode might be involved.

By: Lex2483

Lex2483 — Tue, 19 May 2009 14:09:37 +0000

Here’s the tutorial on engadget for a Nikon rig. They use a wireless USB dongle, a AA battery pack, and an angled USB adapter. I haven’t tried it myself yet, but the concept is pretty straightforward. I don’t see why it wouldn’t be a pretty good fix, although I am pretty new to the DSLR scene. I am about to order the new Rebel T1I in a few more days. Let me know how it works out when you do try it.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/do-it-yourself-wifi-tethering-for-your-dslr/

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 19 May 2009 04:08:39 +0000

Interesting – do you have a link for the wireless USB dongle? I would be very interested in that. The cheap alternative that I had been using were the Cactus triggers which have been pretty good as far as range and reliability go – a bit of jerry-rigging involved, but not too shabby. I did a review of this a while back: http://www.canonblogger.com/2009/04/14/cactus-trigger-zebra-oh-my/

By: Lex2483

Lex2483 — Tue, 19 May 2009 03:10:36 +0000

Instead of the official wireless attachment that costs 999.95, it might be useful to update this post with a wireless USB dongle that can be had for 39.95 instead. There was a tutorial online that showed it for Nikon DSLR’s but there’s no reason it wouldn’t work with a Canon and with that much of a price difference it is very enticing.

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By: Julie McLeod

Julie McLeod — Wed, 13 May 2009 10:50:42 +0000

Thanks for this, Jason. I recently tried shooting tethered into Lightroom for the first time and used Scott’s post as a guide. It would have been easier with all the Canon info in one place. This is a great reference…

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 13 May 2009 05:39:16 +0000

Used this tool last year to run a photo booth at a Harvest Festival. I had 1 macbook pro, 1 Canon 40d, 1 5×6 printer, and more than 100 folks come by for pictures. It was quite fun. I used the live view feature (not sure what is called) to see what I was taking a picture of before hitting the remote shutter button. Then a quick crop if necessary and hit the print button. Very useful indeed.

By: Kevin Mullins

Kevin Mullins — Tue, 12 May 2009 15:47:34 +0000

Great write up Jason. I’ve never actually done this, but have been toying with the idea for some portrait stuff where it would be great to see an output on screen straight away.