Lightroom: Provide tethered capture support for Olympus dSLRs

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Why is it that Lightroom still does not have any support for Olympus digital slrs? I'd love to have tethered shooting and camera profiles directly in Lightroom. With every new upgrade I think "is this the one where my Olympus E3 is recognised?" The answer is always in the negative. Why are Olympus slr users second-class citizens to Adobe?

Roger Walton

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Posted 9 years ago

9 years ago

Jeffrey Tranberry, Sr. Product Manager, Digital Imaging

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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?

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2012-07-16T04:49:20+00:00

Peter Glanvill

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SDK can be found here

http://developer.olympus.com/

9 years ago

Roger Walton

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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.

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9 years ago

Gilles Theophile

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Roger, when Lightroom 3 started to ship, the most current brands (Canon and Nikon) got top priority for tethering mode, and it was said that more brands would be added step by step.

The tethering mode use modules, and I guess it all depends of the availability of a SDK provided by the camera manufacturers.

Rgds, Gilles.

9 years ago

Jeffrey Tranberry, Sr. Product Manager, Digital Imaging

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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.

9 years ago

Roger Walton

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"maybe we should turn this topic into an Idea/Feature request for tether capture support for Olympus DSLRs?" - sounds like a very good idea to me!

9 years ago

Roger Walton

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Please add tethered support for Olympus dSLR. My E3 is feeling like an outcast!

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Lightroom: Tethered support for Olympus.

8 years ago

Garrett Strudler

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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.

2011-07-02T07:45:54+00:00

Victoria Bampton - Lightroom Queen, Champion

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> Adobe doesn't think there is the user base to justify the cost, which is unfortunate

So far this request only has 2 votes, which wouldn't really be convincing them otherwise, even if that is what they think. Some extra people voting would likely help with that one!

8 years ago

Jordan L. Davis

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I want to shoot tethered with Olympus cameras.

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Lightroom: provide support for Olympus tethered shooting.

8 years ago

Garrett Strudler

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If the tethering really is module based, maybe Adobe should think about offering an SDK for those modules, so others could create new profiles. Adobe doesn't have to do the full R&D and gains features at the same time and users get what they want.

8 years ago

Chris Cox

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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.

8 years ago

Garrett Strudler

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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?

2011-07-12T07:04:12+00:00

Victoria Bampton - Lightroom Queen, Champion

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If it's here, it's an official feature request... albeit still one with only 3 votes...

8 years ago

Josh Mirra

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It would be a great feature to have Olympus DSLRs tether to Lightroom.

Make that 4 votes now!

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8 years ago

Royi

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Put the PEN's into the list.

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8 years ago

ramon nayar

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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 :)

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8 years ago

Ross Chang

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

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7 years ago

Peter Glanvill

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the SDK files can be found here

http://developer.olympus.com/

7 years ago

Ross Chang

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

7 years ago

Peter Glanvill

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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_...

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7 years ago

Simon Bannister

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

7 years ago

Peter Glanvill

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full olympus tethered capture please
one vote

7 years ago

shaun pidcock

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I like my E-420 a lot and would love to have tethered shooting.

2 years ago

Terry Senior Photography

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Would love to be able to tether all my Olympus DSLR's

2 years ago

Stano Jendek

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This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled tethered capture with olympus.

When Adobe adds to Lightroom support for tethered capture for Olympus. I have the Olympus OM-D M1, Mark II, I use this camera in my studio and would greatly help me with this option.

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