Unable to tether in lightroom 5

Morning I have been trying to tether in lightroom 5 with my canon 6d and 7d2 but so far have been unable to. I bought a long cable from tether tools to try and all it does is flash back and forth no camera detected and then it show the camera. any help would be great so its off to work i go.

What does "tether" mean. Please explain what you are trying to accomplish.

I've never used LR tethered, so I gave it a try. This is what I did:

Plug USB cable into camera (6D) and computer.
Turn camera on.
Close EOS Utility.
Start LR.
Start tether.

It worked just fine, but I don't see the point. As far as I could tell, the only camera control available is the shutter button. For EVERYTHING else, I had to go to the camera. What good is tethered shooting if you can't control: focus, WB, aperture, ISO, or shutter speed? I tried running EOSU & LR together: no-go. That doesn't work.

I have used EOS Utility for tethered shooting. It works just fine, and gives me total control of everything except the mode dial. If I use EOSU with my 1DIV, I can even control the mode (Av/Tv/P...).

Forgot: EOSU comes free with your camera.

First thing, Lightroom 5 does not support the 7d Mark II tethered. It does support the 6d. To use the 7d2 what you have to do is either upgrade to LR6 or tether with the Canon program, save the image and set Lightroom to automatically import from the directory you have saved the file to.

Other than that Lightroom should work with the 6d. Your problem there is likely that your computer is not recognizing the camera. I am on my phone, so it is difficult to tell you the steps but there is a utility and / or driver program that has to be used before the computer will recognize the camera live.

Don't tether directly into LR...it's a joke. It'll go into power save at some time, then not respond and all kinds of other crap that'll drive you nuts. The issue is that Adobe used a really, really old version of the Canon SDK to control the cameras.

There are 3 ways to tether successfully...

1) use EOS Utility and plug your USB in, have it save the captured files to specific folder. Then, in LR, use File->Auto Import and watch that folder. EU will work successfully, save the image, then LR will see it, import it, and delete it from the "capture folder"

2) use Breeze Systems DSLR Remote Pro to do the capture to a temp "capture folder" and import into LR like in #1. DSLR Remote Pro gives you some more functionality that is nice if you are doing studio work...

3) if you have network capability (wifi or wired) on the camera (as the 1Dx does), set the camera to FTP to a folder somewhere on your network (you can install the Windows/Mac FTP server or most NAS's will have an FTP mode). FTP to that folder directly from camera. Then, map that folder as a drive on your LR computer and use the Auto-Import on it. Proceed as in step 1.

I personally tether a lot, and I don't use USB, it's too unreliable as it has to sync correctly. I use the FTP method, as it can be in the middle of a download from the camera to the FTP server and lose the connection. It'll stop and restart the transfer when the connection comes back up (plus, gigabit can go a lot further from the editing computer than a USB with extender).

The other thing about doing it this way is that you can actually have dozens of cameras on the network firing into that folder and one edit station to work with the incoming files.

I've done this in the past with the 1D series at events - save to both cards on camera and with the Wifi attachement send the files to a "remote location" (NAS on private network, hidden under a table with Ubiquiti AP) that is being culled by an assistant on the fly.

Bassat wrote in post #18116494
I've never used LR tethered, so I gave it a try. This is what I did:

It worked just fine, but I don't see the point. As far as I could tell, the only camera control available is the shutter button. For EVERYTHING else, I had to go to the camera. What good is tethered shooting if you can't control: focus, WB, aperture, ISO, or shutter speed? I tried running EOSU & LR together: no-go. That doesn't work.

I have used EOS Utility for tethered shooting. It works just fine, and gives me total control of everything except the mode dial. If I use EOSU with my 1DIV, I can even control the mode (Av/Tv/P...).

Forgot: EOSU comes free with your camera.

I rarely tether for the remote config capability (unless I'm being lazy and want to fire a second shot from my edit station because I needed a bit more DOF). Most of the time, it's so that I can get the images into the edit stream immediately. Shooting people, I can have a script set or a "live" editor cropping/tweaking as the shots come in. For product, it allows me to check each shot in detail as I work through sets.

When in studio, I rarely ever pull a card out of the camera. I still write to them as a backup, as well as through the tether.

For composite shots, I'll overlay a monitor with a piece of acetate, then draw on it with a overhead projector pen. It lets me get each frame with more accuracy and less shots.

When I shot weddings, it also allowed me to shoot live to an assistant ("field editor") who could quickly grab some shots, crop/edit them, and throw them onto another box that's running a live slideshow (if I was asked to do that at the reception).

I've also run a 65" monitor above my product table, with the preview software set to auto zoom that monitor to the focus point or a certain spot in the image. That way, when I shoot, I can quickly look up and see if I need to do any tweaking before moving to the next item. When third parties are involved (art directors, etc., even though I usually kick them out of the shooting area), the tethering allows me to let them see the progression without being near me.

Gave up on the tether in lightroom i use canon utility and i have never had a problem with it . Thanks for your help.

Wise move.