what can we do with USB?

[MediaFotografie]

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...what can we do with the USB port of the SL today?

 

• tethered shooting with lightroom: "Device not supported"
• Leica Image Shuttle: not available for SL today
• transfering data: mass storage mode not implemented

so actually I don't know how tu use the USB port; any ideas?

 

it is a great camera - only very little things missing today, USB support may one of them

 

 

thomas

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[mjh]

Every piece of software supporting PTP – and there’s no shortage of these – should be able to transfer images from the camera to the computer. Now I would use a card reader instead but that’s just me.

[LocalHero1953]

Puzzled! I connected my Surface Pro with Windows 10 and was able to see and import images into LR.

[ramarren]

I only rarely connect camera to computer, but:

 

1- plug in and download images into LR or other PTP aware app (like Image Capture on OS X).

2- connect camera, run Image Capture. Set Image Capture to download to a folder set in LR to be "watched". Take pictures, press Image Capture download button, and images go to the watched directory and thence into LR for a semi-automatic form of tethering. 

3- Again using Image Capture, set a folder action such that when images land there, the Finder runs an Automator script to do something with them. 

 

et cetera. 

 

I agree that a more sophisticated capture app would be nice, but this suffices for anything I'm likely to do with the USB port.