You can also control the camera’s shutter release from the Sofortbild app if you wanted to use it as a remote control. The interface is clean and gives you quite a bit of useful information about your camera settings without getting in your way. Sofortbild has all the features I need and it seems a little snappier too. However, it is provided freely to download and use. So technically it’s not really FREE as you should donate to the author if you use the app. I just did a studio shoot yesterday, and gave Sofortbild is a donationware app. Although I already own CCP2, I’ve been asked by many of the folks that I do Lightroom presentations for, "is there a cheaper alternative?"įree is usually good! There are a couple of FREE solutions for shooting tethered into Lightroom.
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Considering that you can get Lightroom for only $260.99, CCP2 is more than half the price of Lightroom. Sure more features are nice, but those features come at a steep price. It has more features than you’re likely to use if all you’re doing is shooting tethered into Lightroom. However, quite frankly it’s overkill for this simple task. However, if you’re a Nikon user, the only app (lowest cost one) that Nikon provides is called Camera Control Pro 2 (CCP2). If you’re a Canon shooter the software you need comes with your DSLR. From there Lightroom can automatically import them. You must use a piece of software to bring the images into your computer and dump them into a folder. However, Lightroom doesn’t currently have native support for shooting tethered. 1 Star because I think this software, along with most of Nikon software is extremely overpriced, should be included with the cameras.
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I'm only giving this 3 Stars for these 2 reasons.
#Nikon camera control pro 2 review upgrade#
I had to get this upgrade to Pro 2 in order to use my D90 and new D300s. This is especially useful in a studio situation for those times when you want to check the lighting and have a larger image on screen than the LCD on the back of your camera. I have the original Nikon Camera Control Pro and I like this program. Shooting tethered gives you the ability to attach a (long) USB cable to your camera and then to your computer and with the proper settings have the shots import into Lightroom as you take them. If you’re a Nikon shooter and you use Adobe Photoshop Lightroom shooting tethered requires middleware.