Tethered shooting

[sirhc55]

I have just been experimenting with Nikon Camera Control Pro and tethered shooting. It works brilliantly but it got me to thinking about a cheaper alternative and came up with this for $14.99US.

http://www.toneupstudio.com/


It works with all current Nikon models (and past) PLUS Canon, Sony, Olympus, Leica, Konica Minolta and Pentax.

So if you want to get into tethered shooting and think the Nikon CCP is too expensive, there is an alternative.

[Oz_Beachside]

thanks, I think this will come in handy. I just got a wireless grip for my D200, trying to get the FTP going, and once connected, might be a goer!

[Mr Darcy]

Hi Chris,
I recently bought Capture 4 to get tethered shooting, but I was sent NX instead. Had they asked I would have said to send me CCP & keep the change. As it is, I am P.O'ed

Does TUS3 have the same (or equivalent) camera control that CCP has. I have played with it too & agree that it's brilliant.
From reading the website, it appears that TUS3 can only go click, not alter settings such as shutter speed, aperture etc.

[sirhc55]

Hi Greg - it would appear that the answer is no. I have not used this program as I am on a Mac and the tethered shooting part is for Vista and XP only (I think).

My thoughts were that it was a cheap way of tethered shooting - CCP is just brilliant

[Mr Darcy]

I confirmed with the developer. Here is his reply:

Hi Greg,

Thanks for your email.

Unfortunately, ToneUp can only fire the shutter and not adjust the actual camera settings.
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Hope that helps

Todd

[jdear]

Canon EOS utility (ships with canon cameras) and Adobe Lightroom work well together for tethered - create a watched folder for EOS utility to shoot images into and LR automatically imports, applies conversion settings etc... Great for checking focus and getting feedback with - Ill be using it for a makeup shoot im doing soon.

Still not quite 14.99. but the EOS utility lets you change ISO, WB, Aperture, Shutter speed etc from the laptop.

Jonathan

[marcotrov]

Any ideas on where best to buy the USB extended cable for tethered shooting, knowing that signal strength tends to diminish over distance
cheers
marco

[dviv]

Any computer shop can do USB cables. You can go up to 5m and it will always work (according to the USB spec). Anything more is luck.