p.1 #1 · GFX 100 II Tether shooting to Lightroom Classic
I'm wondering if anyone knows of a way to have the camera record to the memory card(s) as well as a destination on the computer at the same time, while tether shooting in Lightroom Classic?
With my Canon kit it was a camera menu option. In Capture One on Fuji, it's a checkbox within the program.. But I can't find a way to have storage redundancy (outside of writing to two externals at once) when tether shooting in LR.
I've reached out to Fuji who advised me to set the camera to "tether shooting auto," and beyond that it would be an Adobe feature which Adobe does not currently offer- which I find odd.
p.1 #2 · GFX 100 II Tether shooting to Lightroom Classic
I've just begun traveling this road with my GFX100s. The tethering situation is pretty dismal. I've tried Lightroom Classic 15.1 with and without the Fujifilm plug-in. I've tried the Fujifilm standalone app (Mac). I've tried the Smart Shooter app from Tether Tools. None will communicate properly with the camera regardless of quality of USB cable or camera settings. Really pathetic.
The only thing that works is my old perpetual license copy of Capture One Pro 22. It works perfectly, so I'll probably put up with the annoyance of using Capture One for tethered captures, then import the RAFs into Lightroom.
More directly to your point: as long as I set the Connection Mode to "USB Tether Shooting Auto" it saves to both Capture One and the camera's SD card. No fix I can find for LR.
p.1 #3 · GFX 100 II Tether shooting to Lightroom Classic
I have not had that experience with the 100II at all. The older USB-C to C tether tools cable (without the booster box in the middle of the cable) has a slight delay when Lightroom is searching for a camera. I have 2 of the newer 10gig cables and virtually zero issues, outside of my original question.
I find it curious that the "USB Tether Shooting Fixed" specifies that it will not save images to the camera. Even using the connection wizard and selecting that I'd like to internally save the images leads me to "tether shooting auto."
It seems like an oversight, and something I hope they fix with a software update.
I suppose switching to Capture One is a solution. But learning and implementing an entirely new system just to tether shoot with a high end camera in a way that I have some redundancy seems ridiculous.
p.1 #5 · GFX 100 II Tether shooting to Lightroom Classic
sungphoto wrote:
Just get Capture One. It's easier to use than Lightroom in my opinion, and is very stable when tethering.
Right - and Lightroom Classic 15.2, which was released today, doesn't fix anything. Adobe's priority right now seems to be stuffing as many AI-powered bells and whistles into LrC as possible, which isn't much use if I can't even fire the shutter and take the picture. Capture One, which I have no special love for, has just taken the time to figure out the tethering protocol and it works every time.
p.1 #6 · GFX 100 II Tether shooting to Lightroom Classic
I used a GFX100S on a commercial job last year and it worked great with Capture One. The only thing letting it down was the connection speed from the camera’s USB port, which is 5 gbps max (using the latest 10G tether tools cable). Sold my 100S not long ago because I want the 10 gbps capable USB port on the GFX100ii, as well as the amazing EVF.
I learned photo editing on Lightroom first, but I came to dislike how hard it was to manage catalogs once they got past a certain size and once I started tethering it didn’t make sense to have a separate program for RAW processing. Also Capture One has gotten much easier to use over the years. The only adobe program I use now is Photoshop, which I would gladly ditch if I could find something comparable with a perpetual license.
dvoss wrote:
Right - and Lightroom Classic 15.2, which was released today, doesn't fix anything. Adobe's priority right now seems to be stuffing as many AI-powered bells and whistles into LrC as possible, which isn't much use if I can't even fire the shutter and take the picture. Capture One, which I have no special love for, has just taken the time to figure out the tethering protocol and it works every time.
p.1 #7 · GFX 100 II Tether shooting to Lightroom Classic
Had a friend test a 100S tether shooting to LR, and the camera didn't have an issue recording to the camera's cards at the same time as a destination on the computer.
At this point, I'm thinking it's a firmware oversight from Fuji, not Adobe.
Switching to Capture One is an option. I'm just closing in on 2 decades using LR, and it's a familiarity that has been hard to let go of. I've always created a new catalog for every job, so I haven't had that issue, and for alllllll of the Adobe issues over the years, I really like where modern LR is at.
Outside of the camera saving files to it's internal cards, I have no complaints about tether shooting in LR. Both brands of cameras connect quickly, applying edits from the previous photo seemingly adds no time to the import and display of an image, it has gotten significantly better in recent years.
p.1 #8 · GFX 100 II Tether shooting to Lightroom Classic
If you’re happy with LR otherwise, and you just need a backup when shooting, I’d recommend just getting Chronosync and have it back up to an external drive as you shoot. C1 does have a learning curve and it will take a bit of time to adapt your processing work streams to a new program. I still prefer the way LR visualizes highlights and shadows when setting white and black slider levels, though now I mainly just use curves adjustment for the same thing in C1. I just wish Adobe sold perpetual licenses for photoshop, because the generative crap in it doesn’t offer much value for me.
I usually run Chronosync for client work when running C1. I don’t backup to a card in camera because sometimes the computer won’t recognize the camera if a card is in it for Fuji and Nikon.
Kyle Pope wrote:
Had a friend test a 100S tether shooting to LR, and the camera didn't have an issue recording to the camera's cards at the same time as a destination on the computer.
At this point, I'm thinking it's a firmware oversight from Fuji, not Adobe.
Switching to Capture One is an option. I'm just closing in on 2 decades using LR, and it's a familiarity that has been hard to let go of. I've always created a new catalog for every job, so I haven't had that issue, and for alllllll of the Adobe issues over the years, I really like where modern LR is at.
Outside of the camera saving files to it's internal cards, I have no complaints about tether shooting in LR. Both brands of cameras connect quickly, applying edits from the previous photo seemingly adds no time to the import and display of an image, it has gotten significantly better in recent years....Show more →
