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I am unable to locate any options within Lightroom 3.2 and my Nikon D3s on how to tether the camera to Lightroom and to have the images saved on both the computers drive and the CF card in the camera.

All help is appreciated.

I don't think you can do that with Lightroom. In my experience, you generally have to use the manufacturer's own software to have that functionality. For us Canon folk, that means firing up Canon Digital Professional (or whatever it's called). I'm sure Nikon has an equivalent.

Camera manufacturers tend to not provide APIs to interact with their cameras very well making this sort of functionality hard to implement in 3rd party software. I'd love to tether my camera to my iPhone for example...

To clarify that, for us Canon folks, we get the software for free with our Camera bodies, Nikon folks have to pay for it (Nikon Capture Contol Pro).

Lightroom 3 supports the following Nikon bodies:
* D3(s)(x)
* D90
* D200
* D300
* D300s
* D700
* D5000

There is freebee tethering software for Nikon peeps called Sofortbild. Never used it so can't say much about it or how to use.

In my experience Lightroom tethered module is a joke, but if you really want to try here's how
Although I suggest you get Capture One if you're very serious about tethered capture. None of the software works as well as Capture One

Thanks for all the responses.

I may give Capture One a try and see how the quality is compared to Lightroom.

it's much better for studio work hands down, although if you're used to LR workflow it might be a bit frustrating at times

As far as I know Capture one only allows for saving the images on computer when tethered but LR allows for both computer and CF Card or either. I agree that Capture one tethering is faster though. The problem I have is LR, or more accurately Windows, doesn't have support for the 5DmkI for tethering on the Windows 64bit system so I'm stuck.

I was mucking around with LR3 lastnight with the tethering. What I found that was cool with LR3 is that if I put it in slideshow mode with tethering enabled, when I take a pic with the camera, it automatically adds it to the slideshow and continually updates the slideshow. Then LR3 bugs kicked in and it stopped working.

How many pictures did you take b4 it stopped working?

I shoot tethered to a low end machine in the home studio when I'm mucking about and LR3 is slow but it is usable, depending on what your expectations are in terms of speed. I shoot raw on my 40D and the images go to the card and PC.

If you are shooting 21MP 5DM2 files then things might be slower.

Capture one is much faster.

I snapped about a dozen of so pics and it was working fine updating the slideshow after each pic. Then I tried to mask the tool bars etc and that's when it stopped working unless I restarted LR3.

What do you mean by 'mask the toolbars'? Is that when you hit 'shift tab' to concela or reveal them? When I shoot, I use only one monitor and use the loupe mode on the main window.

Yeah, I was trying to hide all the tool bars/menu/thumbnail strips. I don't have dual monitors running at home but will having a second display show only the image? I was looking at a solution to run a photobooth.

The reason I asked about a second monitor is that LR calls a second module for it and that could have been the casue of your crash (memory, etc...).

It seems your setup mimics mine, although I am running my tehered station on a machine with only 512MB of RAM. It takes five to eight seconds for the image to pop on the screen - hardly a performer but OK in my little studio.

Yes, a second monitor only shows one image, whereas the main panel shows grid view, loupe view, etc...

Ahhh. You could be right about that! I did see a secondary display option pop up when I started the slideshow. I'm running with 12GB of RAM and an Nvidia GTX470 vid card and there is still a pause even when just shooting large JPEG. Humm, I'll hook up my projector or connect my extra display to the secondary video port tonight and see. I don't mind the slight lag if it's a photobooth but a studio shoot, I can see it being frustrating.

Carlton, Somehow I knew you had 12GB or RAM in your system - you are, afterall, high-end!!!

High maintenance? lol

High-end = lots of BIG expensive lenses with red rings - LOL.

so as of yet.. technology hasn't created a way to shoot tethered wirelessly? Seems stupid to me if that's the case.. anyone know?

The technology exists it's just priced in that special range used for camera equipment. For example, here is the wireless grip for my camera.

there's also wireless memory card thingy-mabobbers. not 100% sure how they work, but somewhere along the lines of a mem card that also acts like a wifi terminal.

i tried sofortbuild (not sure if i have the spelling right on that either ha) and it works great. You can even output liveview to your monitor.

sweet, thanks ions, thanks Delsorbo

Eyefi

I have gone to love tethering to LR3 using a 15 foot USB cable each time I shoot in the studio. It lets me pop about 18 shots before it chokes the file transfer. Have to wait about 1 - 2 min before it can catch up again. Since I have it set up for LR3, it adds the pictures straight to my catalog. I have no complaints about it.

http://www.eye.fi/

If you're really serious about tethered shooting you should take a look at the Capture One software by PhaseOne

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