In case you alreayd own the A99 and a MAC than try out this little trick to make tethering work: Source: Pasmworkshop. Meantime as usual A99 keeps getting in and out of Stock. Check the links to see what’s the current situation: Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto, Jessops, Wex UK, Wex Germany, Sonystore DE–UK–FR–IT–ES–NL–SE–FI–CH and more links at Alphacameradeals.
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That Lightroom trick was also available with the alpha 700 😉
You had to count 5 to 10 seconds to have the photo in Lightroom.
The same goes for A850/A900. Nothing new.
I am not sure why Sony make tethering like it is miracle to be done. Most Sony ‘ s camera does not have the tethering feature while entry level ones of canon and Nikon are having. Sony please wake up and try to do like others do. My a77 is considered top of the rank and cannot do simple tethering.
A99 Instruction Manual (English) P.78
Using “Remote Camera Control”
Connect the camera to your computer. With “Remote Camera Control” you can:
Set up the camera to record an image from the computer.
Record an image directly to the computer.
Perform an Interval Timer Shooting.
This sounds pretty much like tethering to me 🙂
Sadly we’ll never see this with the A77… *sniffle*
Oh well
Hopefully they’ll be able to hack it back in once they’re able to reverse the 2nd gen firmware encryption.
My frustration is that tethering will work in the A700… and the A77 is the upgrade to it, but they took the feature *away*.
Look the A99 is a beautiful camera but I don’t *need* that one.
If you just want to see the photo you’ve just taken on a tablet or laptop screen use an Eye-fi card, works for me!
Using the Eye-fi is not practical for studio setup as it is slow. I tried it and it takes time to load the image. Too slow.
its easier and faster to buy that 3rd party plugin for LR for $20. a shame though adobe shoudl damn well add support directly with thier software
Please let me know about any plugin like that. All the ones I checked was not for the SLT-77. do you know any ?
And this old “trick” is also avalaible in Lightroom under Windows.
Greetings
Ralf
That is not a trick, it is just how you use an hotfolder with a capture software together with an editing software.
The same procedure works also in Capture 1, Aperture, Bridge and plenty more.
On the past few years I have tested almost all them and the fastest to show the image on the monitor is Capture 1: with the a900 take between 3 to 5 sec on a Macbook pro (it depends on the speed of the HD and CPU), while on lightroom it takes more than 10 seconds.