Sony Alpha DSLR A900, A850, A700 tethered capture support plug-in for Lightroom 5 for Windows
The professional's solution for remotely controlling your Sony Alpha digital SLR from a Windows PC using Lightroom 5 via USB cable.
Features list
- Release shutter from Lighroom 5
- Review aperture, shutter speed and iso
- Use your iPhone, iPad or Android device as a remote control
You can also try this plug-in by yourself.
Demo version apply watermarks and force the camera to shoot only
JPEG file of a fixed size instead RAW.
Full version can work with JPEG and both compressed and uncompressed
RAW files (cRaw and Raw ARW files). RAW+JPEG mode is also supported.
Sony Alpha A850 tethered shooting
Windows Demo
Using the plug-in
To start using your camera with Lightroom 5 you need to download a demo version or order a full version of the plug-in.
Installation process is simple and fast.
We are recommending to close Lightroom before installation.
Installing tethered shootin plug-in
installation process
Plug the cord into your camera and computer and start tethered session in Lightroom (File -> Tethered Capture -> Start Tethered Capture).
Tethered capture menu
Turn on your camera and wait a moment. After windows will detect your camera and installs necessary drivers (first time only) Lightroom 5 will detect it as well and selects it.
Check you camera settings. At this moment you can launch you copy of iAlpha Remote on your iPhone, iPad or Android phone or tablet. Please make sure that your Alpha Remote Server software is not active. The plug-in will work as a server. The server will be avaliable while the tethered session active. Follow this link for more details.
Now it's time to press a shutter button. You can use Lightroom 5 of camera to release shutter. You can also use your remote control unit RMT-DSLR1 or RM-L1AM or Alpha Remote.
You image will appeare in Lightroom catalog.
Captured image
