hansbakken Posted February 7, 2011 Share #1 Posted February 7, 2011 Advertisement (gone after registration) Is it possible to use Leica Digital Capture 1.0 bundled with M8 to tether M9 to PC ? (I didn't succeed) Any other SW to remote control M9 from PC ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted February 7, 2011 Posted February 7, 2011 Hi hansbakken, Take a look here Tethering M9 with Leica Digital Capture 1.0 for M8. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
carlmuck Posted February 8, 2011 Share #2 Posted February 8, 2011 Is it possible to use Leica Digital Capture 1.0 bundled with M8 to tether M9 to PC ?(I didn't succeed) Any other SW to remote control M9 from PC ? Leica Digital Capture is pretty old, if it still runs on the PC (it doesn't on a mac) just try. You may have better luck with Capture One. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jev Posted February 8, 2011 Share #3 Posted February 8, 2011 Short answer no, you can not tether Long answer, please use search button Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
em9 Posted February 8, 2011 Share #4 Posted February 8, 2011 Hello all, Tethering on Windows 7 is possible, have look here: http://www.mymymyohmy.com/software/m9tether.html Works on Windows 7. Haven't got much feedback yet, but it seems to work for most. Note the remark about Vista if you're not on Windows 7. Version 1.6 will be out soon, so do check back if it works for you. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
C_J Posted February 11, 2011 Share #5 Posted February 11, 2011 Hello all, Tethering on Windows 7 is possible, have look here:........ Thank you very much for this extremely useful application Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
em9 Posted February 11, 2011 Share #6 Posted February 11, 2011 Thank you very much for this extremely useful application You're welcome C_J. 1.6 will be out I think somewhere next week. Just some minor additions. Think the last thing I want to add is the option to start different applications with the photos transferred. Means you would be able to choose your own favorite viewer, also for DNG. E.g. startup Photoshop or some other DNG viewer in stead of being stuck only with the internal JPG viewer or Lightroom. Makes it all a bit more flexible. Most likely in 1.7. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wda Posted February 11, 2011 Share #7 Posted February 11, 2011 (edited) Advertisement (gone after registration) em9, Welcome to the Forum! And thank you for such a generous first posting! I have never considered tethered shooting but can see that it could be useful in controlled conditions such as a studio or similar. Does it bestow the features of live-view to aid focusing and framing? Or is it purely an enlarged LCD viewing equivalent to give better judgement of a picture immediately post-shooting? The additional benefit of feeding the image directly into a Lightroom/laptop could be a useful bonus. Edited February 11, 2011 by wda Added Lightroom note Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
em9 Posted February 11, 2011 Share #8 Posted February 11, 2011 em9, Welcome to the Forum! And thank you for such a generous first posting! I have never considered tethered shooting but can see that it could be useful in controlled conditions such as a studio or similar. Does it bestow the features of live-view to aid focusing and framing? Or is it purely an enlarged LCD viewing equivalent to give better judgement of a picture immediately post-shooting? The additional benefit of feeding the image directly into a Lightroom/laptop could be a useful bonus. Thank you wda, No, it's in no way comparable to Liveview. I don't think that's possible with the M9, since it doesn't offer Liveview on the camera. I use a more generic programming layer called WPD. It's uses the PTP protocol, but it limits the options to what Leica implemented on the camera side. It also requires that the picture is written to the SD card first. Only then an event is sent back to the computer. So it's a rather slow transfer. Well, to be specific, it's not so much the transfer that's slow, but you have to wait until the camera finishes the write to the SD card. I do think it's possible to directly get the image from the buffer, but I also think Leica is currently the only one who knows how to do that. It's more to your second remark: viewing the picture afterwards. Either internally through the JPG viewer or through an auto-import folder in Lightroom. I think the benifit is the transfer when you use the camera manually, with semi-instant feedback on the screen. Was quite useful for me in practicing focusing. Adobe plugins for tethered shooting also use WPD actually, but learning Adobe's script language to write a plugin wasn't high on my favorite list . I think Leica should have done that already. Making the 'shoot' button work in Lightroom shouldn't be a big deal. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wda Posted February 11, 2011 Share #9 Posted February 11, 2011 Thank you em9 for your detailed explanation of your tethered software. Even with the intrinsic limitations, you seem to have produced a very useful facility for studio or controlled location applications. I will be interested to read about other members' experiences with the software. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdk Posted January 5, 2012 Share #10 Posted January 5, 2012 Now if someone would just write a Mac OSX application! 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Double Negative Posted January 5, 2012 Share #11 Posted January 5, 2012 Now if someone would just write a Mac OSX application! +1 Yeah, really! Would love that. Might give it a go in a VM. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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