Originally posted by Smeggypants This maybe of some help, although not specifically to the OP ...
Lightroom can be set to import automatically from a watched folder. USB the camera and set the camera's card as the watched folder.
just a thought.
Actually that is really not tethering, thanks though
...what you describe is simply a way to slow your shooting down for marginal gain because the file xfer is SLOW. But when its all you have sometimes people can use it.
The K20D supports a crippled form of tethering which does not have a liveview access but does let you control pretty much everything else so it's not as bad as possible. but on the K20D liveview was sort of a bolt on thing to begin with and not done very well. Still it was Pentax's first whack at it...in fact the immature liveview was why I original when 40D as my first DSLR...even though I always loved the look of images from Pentax DSLR bodies.
Currently you can also put the camera in liveview mode and send the video (no not "video" but the liveview video to a high quality external display of some sort, a TV or just a nice monitor [this works on other bodies like the K20D but it's liveview output is pretty weak still better than nothing]) so you can see a larger image to help with getting the focus and composition. But it does not help when you can't get to the camera controls easily. I can't tell you how stupid it feels when trying to use a mirror to see the settings in this configuration.
Before anyone gets apoplectic even my "old" 40D, the K20D's main competition at the time, supports liveview in their tethering solution. But even canon's solution is not perfect but for me the key is seeing the love view to setup the composition and focus as for me tethering is most useful when I need to have the camera in a position when I simply cannot see the controls, rear panel and obviously the viewfinder...
It's the single feature, or lack of a feature, which stopped me from buying a K-7 when I learned it did not have tethering. So if the K-5 does not support it with on screen Liveview I am going to have to switch back to Canon and likely a 7D, I don't want to by any stretch of the imagination because of how much the K5 appears to have improved, but as anyone here always says "...use the camera that gives you the features you need most..."
So there we are...info from Photokina was completely conflicting and impossible to confirm either way...I dunno why because if it's not there I am gone because I have no choice not because I don't like my Pentax gear, so I feel like we are being used like children by Hoya. But we have yet to see a fully functional K5 so who knows...with my luck it will have a Hello Kitty auto watermark "feature" but never a fully functional tethering feature.
Oh, the 645D is also said to NOT have any sort of tethering fully functional or otherwise...so hard to imagine a digital studio camera WITHOUT tethering isn't it? Guess that is where the cut corners to get the price down.
yeah, I am a tad bitter about this because I am too worn down by many things to keep swinging at a moving target when things should be far more stable for basic feature sets.
For I am hoping we see the feature added officially in the production model.