Nikon D810 Tethered Shooting with Lightroom 5.7 Adobe has (finally) enabled tethered shooting of the Nikon D810 in the newest release of Lightroom 5.7. PhaseOne’s Capture One Pro 8 has had that capability since the software was released in mid-September. Apple Aperture, a raw converter that is no longer being developed, but still has an active user base, also has had the capability to do tethered shooting with the Nikon D810. In some ways, I am a raw converter agnostic. I own all three applications mentioned in the previous paragraph. Since much of my work is done in studio, and I rely heavily on tethered shooting, I have been using Capture One Pro 8 as a part of my workflow. It is not necessarily my primary raw converter or my digital asset manager. But it was and is a very reliable application for tethered shooting. Similarly, Aperture is not my primary raw converter or digital asset manager. But I am a legacy user who has managed photos and edited with Aperture for roughly 8 years. After updating Lightroom several hours ago, I launched it on a current generation (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014) MacBook Pro running Mac OS 10.10.1. The machine has the maximum 16GB RAM, and a fast 1 TB SSD. The D810 was connected to one of the laptop’s USB 3.0 ports. It was configured to record images in lossless compress raw format, with each file being roughly 45MB. Lightroom 5.7 Tether: From the point of shutter release, each file took 4 seconds to transfer and render in Lightroom 5.7. This proved consistent with over one dozen images shot. No presets were applied. Capture One Pro 8 Tether: From the point of shutter release, each file took 3 seconds to transfer and render in Capture One Pro 8. This also provided consistent with over a dozen images shot. No presets were applied. Apple Aperture 3.6: From the point of shutter release, each file took 4 seconds to transfer and render in Aperture. This proved consistent with over one dozen images shot. No presets were applied. I haven’t had the opportunity to see how well Lightroom maintains the connection. In the past it would periodically drop tethered connection and would be sometimes require a restart to reestablish the tether. Occasionally, the same has been true of Apple Aperture. However, Capture One Pro tends to be consistent and I have not encountered similar issues. The bottom line is that there is no real difference in terms of transfer speeds. Capture One Pro may be a second quicker in rendering each image. But those who shoot tethered typically are gunners anyway. Of course, what I have not covered here is how each of the aforementioned raw converters render the images. That’s outside the scope of the transfer speeds I intended to cover.
Posted on: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 16:04:38 +0000
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