Tethering M8?

[rHytHm]

Curious to know if anyone here has shot with their m8 tethered and care to share their work flow and experiences?

 

[Photon42]

Curious to know if anyone here has shot with their m8 tethered and care to share their work flow and experiences?

Apple Aperture can directly import images from a linked-up M8. I don't remember any remote control features apart from releasing the shutter, actually.



Cheers,

Ivo

 

[dof]

Leica have formally announced that they will not update Leica Digital Capture to support Leopard.

However, you can use the Image Capture utility that ships with all versions of the Mac OS to remotely fire the shutter and download the resulting image to the computer. It lacks any M8-specific functionality that you find with Leica Digital Capture, but it did survive the Leopard upgrade.

It's also Automator aware, so you can build scripts to capture, and process your images as you see fit.

 

[rHytHm]

Leica Digital Capture is great software. It comes with M8 in box.
You can adjust shutter speed, ISO, WB, user profile.

You can even press shutter release on computer.
It is fast transfer too.
Unlike Aperture, it doesn't have to wait to write on SD and transfer to comp after. So it is faster than Aperture tether.

Just one bad news. If you use Mac it works on Tiger only no upgrade for Leopard.

kitty

Thank you, very useful information.

 

[kin]

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Leica Digital Capture is great software. It comes with M8 in box.
You can adjust shutter speed, ISO, WB, user profile.

You can even press shutter release on computer.
It is fast transfer too.
Unlike Aperture, it doesn't have to wait to write on SD and transfer to comp after. So it is faster than Aperture tether.

Just one bad news. If you use Mac it works on Tiger only no upgrade for Leopard.

kitty

Works very well, Kitti shows us all in a Capture One class sometime back. Pity it wont be upgraded to work with Leopard.

 

[RichC]

I use Leica Digital Capture frequently for my still lives - a rangefinder is not the ideal tool for accurate framing, so this software allows me to tweak the composition (much easier than looking at the LCD). Also, my lighting is tricky, so Leica Digital Capture allows me to adjust the exposure compensation.

I capture low-quality JPGs initially, for speed of preview, then when I'm happy, I shoot raw files.

Leica Digital Capture also gets round the problem of being unable to take out the SD card without removing the camera from the tripod. Baseplate = stupid and pointless! :bang:

Here's a recent still life I shot using Leica Digital Capture: