Lightroom Tether Plugin

August 30, 2008

Photographer Rich Cooper has created a plugin which brings tethered shooting to Lightroom 2.0.
Nikon and OS X 10.5 users read on. Here’s what he says about it…

“After a bit of work I’ve completed my first Lightroom Plugin. It ONLY works on Mac OS X 10.5 and Lightroom v2 but gives you tethering support in Lightroom.
Its faster than using an Auto-Import folder. Unfortunately at the moment it uses the Apple tether API so it doesn’t support most modern Canon’s although I’m going to try working on that.
By default the image will be imported but won’t be selected. This is because the Lightroom API doesn’t support it. I’ve implemented a workaround which requires you need to enable ‘System Preferences’->’Universal Access’->’Enable access for assistive devices’. This will then select the newly imported image IF you have the last imported image selected.”