Leica S2 shooting tethered

[Kitty]

I remember Leica S2 comes with Lightroom software.
But I wonder to shoot tethering S2 with Mac must be Lightroom only?
Is it possible to do with Captureone?

Any help would be appreciated.
TIA.

kitty

[c5gowin]

Kitty, the S2 comes with stand alone tethering software that works quite well as it offers control of the camera if you want to use it that way. You can set up a hot folder for your S2 images in which Capture One will pull from. I no longer have a copy of Captuer One so I am not the best suited to give you more detailed information. You may want to reach out to David Farkas at www.dalephotoanddigital.com or wwww.reddotforum.com. He is the most knowledgeable person that I know for the S2 aside from the Leica product managers/specialists.

I wish I could be more help.

Mark

[Kitty]

Thanks Mark.

After some research I found I need Image shuttle software from Leica to control and transfer files from camera to computer.
Since S2 raw is DNG. I just hope CaptureOne will support.

A little surprise that CaptureOne readme has M8, M9 in RAW files support but not S2.
Just hope it works.

[qwz]

Lack of S2 support in C1 is kind of competition result.
Similar way, C1 doesn't have support for Hasselblad files.

Pity.

[Arminw]

I thought I share my experience with you shooting the Leica tethered on my last editorial. I usually use my hasselblad h4d5o for that kind of shooting , simply because I know it's reliable ,fast and tethering is a pleasure with Hasselblads own phocus software. The Leica S2 on its own is a fantastic camera, and the quality it produces is mindblowin. However, in the world of fashion tethering is required a lot and Adobe's Lightroom 4 is just not fast enough! It's been so painful getting the images into the computer, adding some simple adjustments and transferring the settings to each new photograph captured . A real time killer was the switch between shooting landscape mode and portrait mode ... It took forever for Lightroom to rotate the image . It was so slow I came to the conclusion this system is just not up for the job . Whatever Leica is doing next S3 or whatever This has to be sorted. I don't think any of my colleagues wanting to shoot the S2 will put up with having to restart the computer several times, unreliable recognition of camera connected to the computer and slow transfer. as I said before, I don't and can't afford using it again (tethered ) on any of my shoots . I might have to shoot to card then let the assistant transfere it to the computer every ten shots or so, but what choice do I have when the client , art director wants to see the images as you shoot them ? Leica / Adobe come on get this sorted .... !

[bdp]

One of the worst holes in Lightroom's attempt at providing a solution to tethering via auto import (hot folder) is the inability to automatically apply any changes to processing settings to the subsequent captures without a slow and cumbersome method using user presents and specifying this preset in the auto import settings. They do it with tethered capture, by providing a develop setting called 'same as previous' but they don't allow this for auto import. All professional tether software for medium format cameras does this by default. Adobe really needs to step up and decide if it wants to compete in this arena rather than just offer a token effort.

Add to this that auto import is quite slow and the result is that using an unsupported camera and the manufacturer's software for a way to shoot tethered in Lightroom is quite cumbersome. However Lightroom is so good at processing that it is worth it, just. My method of getting around the lack of develop changes being applied automatically to auto import is to change the default settings for files from whatever camera is being used for auto import, so that whenever you make a tweak to exposure, colour balance or whatever, you select 'set default settings' in the develop drop down menu so that all new captures have these settings. It is still cumbersome, but not as slow as creating a new preset then specifying that preset in the auto import dialogue box. In fact I have created a keyboard shortcut so that whenever I make a change I hit my shortcut followed by enter before I go back to the camera and continue shooting. After it becomes a habit it works quite well. However it doesn't apply brushes, gradients, crops etc, so it's not perfect.

Ben