Tethered shooting

Also known as tethered capture, tethering, tethered photography. Category: Photography techniques

Tethered shooting means the camera is connected to a computer, by cable or wirelessly, while photographing. The software can change camera settings, trigger the shutter and show live view, and each image is transferred straight to the computer for review and processing.

How PhotoRobot uses it

PhotoRobot Controls controls Canon cameras over USB through the Canon SDK, setting aperture, shutter speed and ISO and downloading and renaming images automatically. PhotoRobot Touch uses tethered shooting with a wire shutter and adaptor to capture simple 360 spins with an iPhone.

  • Canon EDSDK: Canon's software development kit for controlling EOS cameras from a computer over USB.
  • Live View: A real-time preview of the camera image on a computer screen, used to frame and focus before capture.
  • Shutter release cable: A cable that fires the camera from an external device, such as a robot's control unit.
  • PhotoRobot Touch: PhotoRobot's iPhone app for handheld product photos, detail shots and simple 360 spins inside the PhotoRobot workflow.
  • Automated image capture: Camera triggering synchronised with studio hardware and software, without manual intervention.

Where this term appears on photorobot.com

Mentioned on 11 pages of photorobot.com:

  1. PhotoRobot Touch - iPhone App User Manual (Manual)
    Spin mode (for the tethered shooting of automated spin photography) 3.
  2. Automated iPhone Product Photography (Software)
    Produce batch handheld still photos and detailed shots in the palm of your hand, or simple 360 spins via tethered shooting.
  3. Introducing the PhotoRobot Touch iOS Mobile Application (Blog)
    It enables unlimited & unrestricted handheld photography, operation by template-based workflow wizards, or the tethered capture of basic 360 spins.
  4. eCommerce Photography - How to Optimize Production (Blog)
    Alternatively, users can access Cloud services over the internet, while cameras connect to the system via USB for tethered shooting.
  5. Photo Studio Automation - A Buyer’s Guide by PhotoRobot (Blog)
    With some systems, you simply connect an iPhone, and with tethered shooting capture product photos.
  6. PhotoRobot PWS (Page)
    Imaging chain — cameras, optics and lighting: Cameras & tethering — Canon natively, 3rd-party via watch folder; offline/disconnect/focus/liveview/flash-not-firing diagnostics.
  7. Camera Configuration - PhotoRobot User Support Manual (Manual)
    (Note: If using a camera tethered to EOS Utility and in Live View, EOS Utility also stops the flash from firing.) 3.
  8. What is Automated Image Capture? (Glossary)
    The software communicates directly with the camera's internal computer via USB tethering and manufacturer SDKs.
  9. Explore the "Support 2.0" Update in Controls App 2.15.0 (Blog)
    …infuriatingly simple problems: either an IP address misconfigured by IT, or a high-speed tethering cable that someone simply stepped on.
  10. PhotoRobot Celebrates 20 Years in Automated Photography Innovation (Blog)
    Touch enables the capture of handheld still images & detailed shots, or the tethered capture of simple 360 spins.
  11. Remote Camera Control with Canon’s EOS Digital SDK (Blog)
    Based on an older, yet proven protocol, it requires tethering via USB from a camera to a Windows or Mac computer.

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