Comments on: Tethering Your DSLR to Adobe Lightroom

By: Andrew Turner

Andrew Turner — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:13:39 +0000

This looks really good. I’m interested in trying this with my Pentax K10 and Mac PB as I would really appreciate the chance to see shots on a larger screen before packing up and moving on to the next location. However – some questions (1) anyone have any experience of doing this with Adobe Bridge CS3 2.1.1.9 instead of Lightroom, (2) or for that matter with Aperture 2.1.4?. (3) It’s possibly too early to tell of course, but I suppose it would be too much to find a way to do it with iPad to save toting a PB on a shoot? – that would be really useful.

By: Cindy

Cindy — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:49:50 +0000

Can this technique be used with a Pentax Km? If so, how the heck do you get it to work…..I installed the Pentax Remote 3 and my camera does nothing! HELP!

By: Rod

Rod — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:41:12 +0000

Thanks I now have my K10D tethered to my laptop

Steps

1. Downloaded and installed the latest remote assistant V3 from Pentax (supplied camera software was needed to be installed first)
2. Setup Lightroom to auto import
The main issue that I found was that lightroom needed an empty folder to point to.. my documents\pentax\1 in my case
3. Connected and turned on
4. took an image or 2 (raw)
5. waited 1 – 2 seconds till lightroom had auto opened / imported
6. Had to manually move to next photo on the keyboard
7. File had been imported and moved to the import folder

Happy thanks

Rod

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:20:36 +0000

I’ve tried to set up my tethering with Pentax K-10D on my HP Laptop, have downloaded all nessesary software and firmware but when I plug in to USB just the window come’s up asking where I want to transfer my pic”s. In my top LCD window of my camera just the letter;s PC come on. Have no camera functions. The program Pentax Remote loaded into my browsers, Firmware 1.30 loaded into camera. Any suggestions. Really need help.

Thanks

By: Dave (PhotographyBB)

Dave (PhotographyBB) — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:40:57 +0000

Hi Donna,

In addition to installing the Remote Assistant Software, did you also install the Pentax Remote Assistant Drivers for USB? If not, check out this page: http://www.pentaximaging.com/customer_care/show_software?softId=1 (the very last set of instructions towards the bottom of the page). The file is called PENTAXUSBDriverInstaller10.1.pkg

Let us know if that works, and if not, we’ll look into it further!

Dave

By: Donna

Donna — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:24:42 +0000

We have a Pentax K10D and are trying to shoot into Lightroom via Pentax Remote Assitant as your blog suggests. The G3 mac with 10.5 system connects to the camera but Pentax Remote Assitant does not see it. We have upgraded the camera and remote software. Any ideas!

By: Paolo

Paolo — Thu, 15 May 2008 07:30:47 +0000

Perfect,
other little question: I’ve a EOS 400D but i can’t find for it the software listed in your point 1.

where can I find a similar software to be able to tethering my camera?
thx
Paolo

By: brandon

brandon — Tue, 06 May 2008 23:43:55 +0000

does it work with older cameras? i have a digital rebel 300d and i can’t find that canon download you mentioned anywhere.

By: Dave (PhotographyBB)

Dave (PhotographyBB) — Thu, 01 May 2008 05:01:07 +0000

Hi Paolo,

I haven’t tried it in previous versions of Lightroom, but I believe it should work in exactly the same way, as you can still set up watched folders in previous versions. The version 1.4 update is free for any Lightroom owners, and has a few fixes and new features worth upgrading for in any case!

Great question!

Dave

By: Paolo

Paolo — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:53:26 +0000

does it work only with LR version 1.4?
fantastic post!