Tethered Shooting Question

[LensBaby]

Does anyone use Bibble Pro for tethered shooting? I am interested in using my laptop with for portrait sessions, but I am a little confused. Is there anyone who can help me with this? Bibble pro does support the A700, but I just don't know how to do it. Maybe someone out here will be able to help me with this. It would be great to view my images on the monitor while I shoot. Thanks everyone!

[jerryph]

Bibble provides support for several professional grade digital cameras that plug directly into a computer and transmit images to a specified folder for immediate processing. Bibble's tethered shooting preferences specify the capture folder and the naming convention for real-time image transfers from the camera.

When setting up tethered shooting, follow your camera manufacturer's instructions on hooking up the camera to the computer and install any required hardware drivers. To verify whether Bibble supports tethered shooting with your camera, check the specifications page of the Bibble web site for the current list of supported camera models. Also, you should install only the tethering software recommended for your camera. Having more than one tethering application installed could prevent you from making the connection.

Bibble Pro Only This feature is available in the Bibble Pro version only.

To initiate tethering:

1. Connect your camera to the computer and turn on the camera.

2. In Bibble, initiate your camera manufacturer's SDK in the Tethered Shooting preference dialog box.

3. In the browser panel, click File Browser, and then click the Capture folder.

To set the tethered shooting preferences:

1. From the File menu, click Preferences.

2. In the left panel, click Tethered Shooting.

3. Under Tethered Shooting, click one of the supported camera options.

4. To set the capture folder:

o Under Current capture folder, click Browse.

o Navigate to the folder you want to use as the image capture folder.

o Click OK.

o If you want to create a new capture folder, navigate to the folder that will contain the new capture folder.

o Click Make New Folder.

o Click the new folder, and when the text tool comes into focus, type a descriptive name for the new folder.

o Click OK.

5. To apply pre-defined settings to images:

o Click the Apply pre-defined settings to incoming captures check box.

o Click Browse and navigate to the folder that contains the Bibble image settings configuration file (*.bis).

o Select the file and click Open.

6. Click the Auto-select incoming captures if you want to select the image that was just shot and loaded into Bibble.

7. To specify the image renaming format:

o Under Renaming format, open the drop-down menu and select one of the defined rename formats. The rename format tags populate the second text field.

o If you want to provide a more descriptive name for a renaming format specification, click Add.

o In the New shortcut dialog box, type the descriptive name for the renaming format shortcut in the text field.

o Click OK.

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That's straight from their website help. I hope it helps you out.

[LensBaby]

Thank you so much! My camera is on that list, so I will have to try that later on today.

[Snappers]

Sounds like a cool thing to be able to do. Is it expensive for the equipment?