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Tethering with the Nikon D7100.


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Hello, Friends,

I have no idea how to do tethering. All I know is that a wire/cable(I am not interested in wireless tethering) attaches the camera to a computer. It seems we need a software to be able to open the photo in the computer.

Who can help me with this issue, please?



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All you need is this software and the USB cable that you already have:

http://www.bhphotovi...ol_Pro_2_0.html

 

If you have lightroom 5, it also supports tethering, so in that case you wouldn't need the dedicated Nikon software.



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You could try Control My Nikon or Helicon Remote. I think both have free trials. As for the cable, that should have come with your camera.

 

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Thank you both, Adam and Greenwing.

I will keep you posted about my progress.

Cheers,



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If you have an Android phone, you can tether to that with the MyDSLR app.

Very useful for time lapse and Astro shooting. If you have two Android phones, you can have a sort of remote tether!

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You should already have the cable - it comes with your camera but you may want to buy an extension USB as the cable is quite short!

 

If you use Lightroom, it already have tethering fro the Nikon built in - I do product photography and all my daily shooting is via tether with Lightroom.

 

Now, if you don't use Lightroom and you use PC Windows, there's a really good free software (I was one of the early alpha testers) - it works great and even allow you to control your camera from your computer:

Easy to use, free solution for complex camera control | digiCamControl

 

If you use Mac, they don't have one for the Mac but I run Wiindow7 using VMWare on my Mac and have test DigiCamControl in that environment successfully.

 

Hope that helps.



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You should already have the cable - it comes with your camera but you may want to buy an extension USB as the cable is quite short!

 

If you use Lightroom, it already have tethering fro the Nikon built in - I do product photography and all my daily shooting is via tether with Lightroom.

 

Now, if you don't use Lightroom and you use PC Windows, there's a really good free software (I was one of the early alpha testers) - it works great and even allow you to control your camera from your computer:

Easy to use, free solution for complex camera control | digiCamControl

 

If you use Mac, they don't have one for the Mac but I run Wiindow7 using VMWare on my Mac and have test DigiCamControl in that environment successfully.

 

Hope that helps.

Thanks for the update and link, I'm going to download it tonight and try it out on my 7100. Looks a good program and free too. Bonus.



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Thanks Yauman and Rob,

I have received the cable by mail and will test tethering with Lightroom soon.

Best,

Cesar