Tethered Shooting with my Nikon D50
January 28, 2009I was thinking about this before, but pretty much gave up hope when someone said “have to purchase expensive software to get it working”… Well decided to look it up again and thanks to the wonders of the capital WWW and youtube my hunt is over at a very al cheapo price.. ahha… no cost involved actually.
Ok not to confuse the lost souls.. for those of you wondering what is tethered shooting.. well here is a good explanation from wikipedia “to take picture while connected to a personal computer, for quick transfer of images to the computer (and sometimes also display on the computer screen)” In other words it’s a fancy way to get my picture sent to the lap top screen as soon as I snap it!! good way to check out what you took nice and big big! and also the subject gets to instantly see it as well! not to mention how pro you would look as well lar…
What you need to get it working? well… read on..
- Camera (Duh!)
- USB cable from camera to lap top
- Software to push the images : http://www.diyphotobits.com/
- Editor to view the images (adobe lightroom)
So the idea is to get the image downloaded to your pc as soon as you snap it, and get the photo editor to watch a folder and display any new images that pops up in there. Can anyone say YummY!
I won’t get into the nitty-gritty details cause there are other sites that explain it a lot better than I would… so go get the software for Nikon cameras here http://www.diyphotobits.com/ Just go to the downloads page. Read his site… this dude has an awesome site! Watch his video to see how to set it up : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbAIC_p3lzo
Also here is the video on how to get adobe lightroom to watch a folder to display anything new: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9p4LD1SqWo (it’s actually a tutorial for cannon and Mac users, but we Windows people are smart and can decipher anything.. hahaha)
*WARNING* There are plenty of other software tools you could use to get this done. I’m just blogging about what I tried and worked for me 
Anyway.. here is a my test shot I took and got pushed to my PC instantly! ok larr… maybe not instantly… more like 2 seconds later! but counts as instantly rite?
omg! u finally updated your blog!
happy new year btw 
hahha.. yeah.. looking to do it once a year
Thanks for mentioning my script! I’d like to point your readers to a video of the more recent version though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovKWF6lgCAY so they can see more what it looks like today as the original one was rather too basic.
your occasional is really damn occasional right haha
no cost + $299… LR is not free. You could try FPV Pro for a much lightweight and easier to setup tethering solution than LR + a DIY script. Cheaper, too, for those not already having LR handy.
Yeah well… it doesn’t cost unless you already have LR. FPV Pro huh.. will check it out…
I tried it out but it doesn’t seem to recognize my d50. You used this with a D50, right?