Lightroom: Provide tethered capture support for Olympus dSLRs

Hi Roger,

The Olympus E-3 is a supported camera in terms of raw file format. Are you looking specifically for tethering support? Lens profile support?

Yes - it's tethered shooting (which I can do via a third-party add-in) and lens profiles that I would dearly like to have available.

As I teach Lightroom, it would be a big help if I could demonstrate these features with my camera/lenses.

Hi Roger, maybe we should turn this topic into an Idea/Feature request for tether capture support for Olympus DSLRs?

Also wanted to to point this out if you didn't already know:

You can create your own lens profiles with the Adobe Lens Profile Creator or check to see if a user-contributed profile for your lens is available through the Adobe Lens Profile Downloader.

Doesn't Olympus offer an SDK? I presume it is just a matter of Adobe working to create a "module" for LR3, and Adobe doesn't think there is the user base to justify the cost, which is unfortunate. Tethered capture would be really handy, especially now that Olympus has discontinued their Studio software which did it previously.

Tethering is not module (aka Lua) based. Tethering needs to use the camera vendor supplied drivers, plus code in the application interfacing with those drivers. If there are no vendor supplied drivers for tethered shooting, that would kind of prevent the feature.

Chris, thanks for the information. Being that Olympus does (or did) provide their SDK (as there are a couple simple tethering options out there - like Imagecraft's E-Capture), I guess it's just a matter of Adobe doing the integration. Did this ever make it to an official feature request?

Put the PEN's into the list.

Pulitzer Prize Winning Olympus Professionals like Jay Dickman would applaud Adobe for being accommodating towards us Olympus folk :) If there were a way that you could "batch" Camera Raw support developments with Tethered shooting support, we'd be making LightRoom an industry standard for studio photography and more. Please do get this compatibility for Olympus DSLR tethered shooting ASAP :)

please add all Olympus DSLRs / e-Pen / OMD to Lightroom tethered capture

Hello all,

If your camera can use Olympus Studio 2 software, then you can do tethered.

But if you want to shoot un-tethered as in wirelessly like me with my Olympus E-5, then contact this email address for help.

a.l9609@gmail.com

Adobe Lightroom has treated Olympus & Pentax users like third class citizens.

the SDK files can be found here

http://developer.olympus.com/

the SDK is ok support the pre-m43 camera ~! no e-PEN and OMD

the olympus SDK does not support the M4/3 system yet or the E5

a list of supported cameras can be found here

http://developer.olympus.com/cameras_...

om-d tethered capture pretty please - one more vote...

full olympus tethered capture please
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