Tethering a Camera to Lightroom Classic CC (NO PLUGINS) – Sony, Canon, Nikon – 2021

In today’s video, I’ll walk you through the entire process of tethering to your Sony, Canon, or Nikon camera to your computer. I will show tethering a camera to Lightroom Classic CC. For the Sony camera, we will need the free Sony Imaging Edge desktop software to help connect to Lightroom Classic CC. That’s why no plug-in is needed.

Tethering a Camera to Lightroom Classic CC

How to Tether to Lightroom Using a Sony Camera.

So we’re going to start off with a Sony camera. We know that Sony cameras cannot connect directly to Lightroom and use tethering. What we have to do is we have to install the software. We have to go to the Sony Imaging Edge desktop software site and I’ll leave a link in the description.

And this is the download page you can download for Windows or Mac. So go ahead and download that and install it. And there’s a small setup on our Sony camera that we have to do before we actually hook it up let’s do that.

So the camera I’m using is a Sony, a 6600, and you get to the change we need to make, go over to this toolbox right here. Says set up one and over to set up four. And where it says USB connection.

Make sure that it says PC remote. I think I had mine on AUTO before but made sure that PC remote is checked. And just in case you see a USB connection, grayed out. I’ve done this before. Come back over here to network one.

And it could be that your control with smartphone is on. You need to make sure that it is off. So again, if this is on, it’s possibly going to cause your USB connection to be great out so that you can’t change it.

So that’s the only thing we need to do on our Sony cameras to make it work with the imaging edge software. But before you open the imaging edge software, there are some things that you probably need to check for, make sure that you don’t have Lightroom Open or Dropbox or, in my case, back up and sync from Google.

So I’m on a Mac and I had to launch activity monitor. And see, I have backup and sync from Google running. I need to quit that. So now it’s time to hook up your camera to the computer so you can probably use a cable that came with your camera.

It just hooks to your camera and into your USB port. And you can also purchase a large cable from tether tools. Once you see that you like this method, turn on your camera. When I click on the imaging edge desktop software and we’re says remote up here, click start and the remote screen comes up and

you see your camera model right here. So if you double click on your model name and it doesn’t find your camera, you can press refresh. And sometimes you may have a problem. And if you do, this will happen.

It’ll remind you of some of the things that we went over. And maybe you skipped like changing your USB connection to PC remote. And if you need more help, you can click here on this link and it’ll bring up a Web page to give you more suggestions.

But normally, you won’t have to do this. I have this problem because my recording software is on right now. But now, double-clicking on your camera model. You see a window come up saying waiting response from camera and then the remote window should open.

So now here is my camera. It’s hooked up to imaging edge and imaging edge sees everything that my lens sees. You can go through all these features of the software if you want to use it. But all we need to do is come down here to where it says, save settings, and where it says save in.

We are going to point this to a location on our computer where we want our photos to go from imaging edge. So click on these three dots right here. And I’ve created a folder called Tether Folder on my desktop.

I’m going to select that and say open. And so this is the destination folder of all our photos that come from imaging edge. So that’s all we need to do in the software. We leave it running. And now we’re going to start Lightroom Classic. Now with Lightroom Classic open,

this is the last step coming up here to file auto import and enable auto import should be checked. But go into auto import settings, check, enable auto import. Watch folder, I’m going to choose the folder on my desktop that I created.

It’s tether folder. So remember, that’s the folder that we set up inside of the imaging edge software. So now Lightroom needs a destination that it’s going to move it to. So my path is my pictures, 2021. So you would hit choose and decide on your computer where you want that to be, and then you give it a

subfolder name. Now Lightroom is going to create the subfolder for you. And it’s going to be in this move-to path. And you can add a collection if you want to create a collection that you want this to go into.

Also, you can set that up right here, considered as the target collection in sync with Lightroom. You can change the file name. You have all these options here. You can customize the naming convention for a file name in any developed settings that you want, any presets, you can add them here, add any metadata that you want.

We’re just going to say, OK, and now in this case, all we have to do is take a picture. We don’t have to turn on Tethered capture. We’re using auto import. So I can take a picture up is going to pop up the viewer.

And down here is folder we set up in the auto-import settings, Teather Test. I have my camera set to capture Raw File in JPEG, thats why there’s two images there. Take another photo. You’re going to see it pop up to the viewer on the imaging edge.

And here’s the photo that I took. So that’s how you would tether with a Sony camera into Lightroom Classic. If you’re getting value out of this so far, hit that like button and consider subscribing. Now I’ll show you how to tether with a canon or a Nikon camera.

How to Tether to Lightroom Using a Canon or Nikon camera.

I’m going to leave a link in a description to the Adobe support page that has information on all the supported cameras for Canon and Nikon. So now for Canon Tethering, I have my Canon five D mark three here and at my tether tools cable here, and it’s got a USB connection on the other end that’s hooked to

my computer. So in Lightroom, all we have to do is come up here to file tethered capture, start tethered capture. So session name up here. This is going to create a folder wherever I choose down here in the location.

And for the naming, you have all these choices here for a filename format that you choose. I just go with the session name and sequence. I want to start this back at one. Of course, click on Choose to Choose Your Destination Location.

And of course, you can add a collection. Great. Any collection you want give the collection, a name, you can put it in a collection set you set it as the target collection and sync with Lightroom or sync with the cloud.

You say create a shared selected. And since it’s synced to the cloud, you can actually share this collection. You can have a link to it and you can share it so people can see your shoot as it’s in progress or they can see it later.

But it’s a great way for a client to see your photos as you’re doing your shoot. Of course, any metadata that you want, any presets. It’s all pretty straightforward. And you say, OK, create your folder name and say, OK, make sure your cameras on Lightroom is looking for my camera.

My camera is detected now. And of course, you can move this tether bar around. If you command T or control T, it will hide it in case you don’t want to see that in the way this dropdown here, if you’re shooting with multiple cameras, you can switch between those if you click on live.

That will open up the live And in the case of this Canon five D mark three has live view, there a live view and you can control aperture iso, balance and you can take a photo and you can use a capture button or take a photo that’s developed settings here.

We take this over to the development module and say you want to change some of these settings here, just kind of dial in things. And if you want to keep on taking pictures of the same subject, which you can do is click the same as previous.

So what happens is the next time that I snap a photo, it’s going to use these same settings here. So I want to take a photo of this guitar body again. And you could see that it applied to same settings that it had from the photo before.

So that’s kind of handy to keep your settings consistent if you’re shooting the same subject. But that’s how easy it is to tether with Canon or Nikon.

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