Tethered shooting program (mac)

[photodrew 10]

any know a decent program to shoot tethered other than Lightroom 3? I am after a fast responsive program to show photographs on screen, apply a quick edit (no more than 10secs worth) and ability to print there and then?

[jezzyjj 10]

Why isn't LR suitable for your needs as it can do what you require? And you can set it up to apply a preset on import which will reduce editing time dramatically. If shooting tethered then you tend to be shooting under consistent conditions, so you it may be you that you set preset, import and LR renders a developed image that you can then print straight out.

As you are on the Mac there's Aperture [gack!] which can also do tethered shooting.

 

There's also specialist software for event photographers that are designed for mass ingestion and fast output.

[7hills 10]

Why isn't LR suitable for your needs as it can do what you require? And you can set it up to apply a preset on import which will reduce editing time dramatically. If shooting tethered then you tend to be shooting under consistent conditions, so you it may be you that you set preset, import and LR renders a developed image that you can then print straight out.

As you are on the Mac there's Aperture [gack!] which can also do tethered shooting.

 

There's also specialist software for event photographers that are designed for mass ingestion and fast output.

 

ive also been looking into this recently - apart from LR. Can you name any of these specialist software?

 

ive not tried this with LR yet, does it take a while for the image to show up on screen?

[photodrew 10]

it is not too bad I started setting pre edit setting but has slightly slowed it down. I have learnt to use my camera more to control the picture rather than rely on software on mac!

 

7hills it takes a normal JPG to appear on my screen in 3-5 seconds using the standard USB cable! I may upgrade it!

[SusanL 10]

Hi guys,

One program for Event Photographers is called Darkroom, this is good for quick edits and straight to prints, the best thing about this program is that you can do montages pretty quickly. Lightroom is also good but is a big program, if you want something with basic edits, easy, cheap, try Picasa.

[SusanL 10]

Hi guys,

One program for Event Photographers is called Darkroom, this is good for quick edits and straight to prints, the best thing about this program is that you can do montages pretty quickly. Lightroom is also good but is a big program, if you want something with basic edits, easy, cheap, try Picasa.

 

Sorry, just re-read this, Darkroom isn't available for Mac, only available to use in Bootcamp, on Windows

[jezzyjj 10]

Lightroom is also good but is a big program, if you want something with basic edits, easy, cheap, try Picasa.

LR a big programme?! Not sure of the relevance or meaning of that comment. LR is fast and easy to use and the install is half the size of something really basic like iTunes [also a database style programme which is more like a version 1.0 than 10.5], so LR is literally a small programme.

[jezzyjj 10]

it is not too bad I started setting pre edit setting but has slightly slowed it down. I have learnt to use my camera more to control the picture rather than rely on software on mac!

Getting it right in camera should always be your goal. However I'd still always shoot RAW and apply a develop preset on import. Should be more than fast enough on a decent computer.

 

7hills it takes a normal JPG to appear on my screen in 3-5 seconds using the standard USB cable! I may upgrade it!

A USB 2.0 cable is a USB 2.0 cable, so never the fastest way of transferring data and probably the bottleneck in your workflow.

 

I've not shot tethered for a while as I only tend to do it with product shots, so can't quite recall the speed of working. But with the Canon EOS utility I could control camera settings from laptop and also trigger camera from laptop, which was useful for that type of photography. LR then just displayed the images for me.

 

Another benefit of LR is you can set up printing templates to easily output different layouts of your shots as you need them.

Complex ones like shown here multi print template or simply a single image one a page or several sizes of same image per page.

 

Set up properly in a controlled situation as tethered shoots tend to be, then you should be able to import into LR and output straight to a print template as the Dev preset does the image edit for you.

Edited November 7, 2011 by jezzyjj

[johno 10]

Good link jezzyjj thanks

[FOREST 10]

This works on mac and it's free:

 

http://www.sofortbildapp.com/

[JoeS 10]

This works on mac and it's free:

 

http://www.sofortbildapp.com/

 

That only works for Nikons.