The smart way to shoot tethered with Lightroom and your EOS camera

Photographers who work in a studio, or on location, shoot tethered with Lightroom and their cameras. Lightroom includes a feature to shoot tethered with Lightroom. It only works for some cameras and they have to connect with a USB cable.

Shoot tethered with Lightroom and a WiFi EOS camera

Several EOS cameras feature WiFi to connect to smaprtphones, tablets and computers. Other EOS cameras use a Wireless File Transmitter accessory to shoot tethered with WiFi.

 

  • Configure the camera WiFi connection

    Canon EOS cameras with WiFi connect to Canon’s EOS Utility software. EOS Utility connects with EOS cameras

    Canon EOS cameras with WiFi connect to Canon’s EOS Utility software. EOS Utility connects with EOS cameras using a USB or WiFi connection. These articles explain how to connect your EOS camera with WiFi so that you can shoot tethered to Lightroom.

    How to use EOS Utility 3.0 to connect to your EOS camera with WiFi
    WiFi Pairing cameras with EOS Utility 3
    How to connect your EOS 70D to EOS Utility using WiFi
    wifi tethering EOS 70D EOS Utility 2.14

    EOS Utility is on the Canon software disk supplied with each EOS camera. You can download a copy of the latest EOS Utility or a complete EOS software disk from Canon’s website.

  • Configure EOS Utility to start automatically when a camera connects

    EOS Utility starts up automatically when a camera is connected with USB and a correctly paired WiFi configuration. You can speed up tethered shooting by setting EOS Utility to automatically start the Camera settings / remote shooting function.

    Optimise EOS Utility for tethered shooting
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  • Set Lightroom to auto import your pictures

    Lightroom needs to be setup to transfer images from the folder that EOS Utility puts them in to.
    Configure Lightroom auto import settings
    setup to shoot tethered with Lightrom