Shooting tethered means that your camera is continued to a reckoner and the pictures are saved to the computer while you lot shoot. Yous can do this by using a long USB cablevision or sometimes an ethernet cablevision from the photographic camera to the computer. If you're using a Lumix camera, though, yous've got to buy Promote Systems software to tether with a cablevision.

Or, you tin just connect to your computer wirelessly anywhere in the world with camera's built-in wifi. Hither's how to do it on a Mac–I'd dearest some assist from you writing this upward for a Windows motorcar.

Setup the Calculator

Notice or create a folder you want your pictures to end up in (if you want to use Lightroom to Car Import from this folder, information technology's going to need to be empty).

Right click on the binder and check the box for Shared binder.

Now caput to the Arrangement Preferences and choose Sharing.

Change your computer name to something very short so it's easy to enter on the photographic camera below. Type a new name in the bar then clickEdit. (Y'all'll also be entering your computer's log on password, then yous might consider changing that to something easy to enter on the camera.)

Make sure File Sharing is on. Nether Shared Folders, select the folder you jsut made and brand sure it's fix toAnybody andRead & Write.

Go dorsum to theOrganisation Preferences and chooseNetwork.

Activate the button that saysTestify Wi-Fi status in menu bar–this volition make information technology easier to select the camera's wifi indicate below.

Cull theAdvanced push button at the bottom and click on the WINS tab.

The NetBIOS Proper name should exist the name you fabricated to a higher place in Sharing.Workgroup should sayWORKGROUP.

Setup the Camera Wifi

On your photographic camera, go to the Menu and become into the Wrench Menu (it's got an icon that looks like a wrench).

Choose the Wi-Fi card (if you don't run into a wifi menu, then your camera tin can't do wireless tethering).

CullWi-Fi Function thenNew Connexion.

ChooseShip Images While Recording thenPC thenDirect thenManual.

Back on the computer, choose the GH5-XXXXXX from the Wifi options in your Menu Bar. The name will be unique to your camera. Enter the password showing on your camera'due south screen. It may take a few seconds for the GH5 signal to show up on your computer.

Now the camera will read, "Searching…". Press the Menu/Set button, and wait while it says "Delight wait..". Click Transmission Input and then enter your computer'southward NetBIOS Proper noun from above so select Set.

Choose your shared folder, then type in your computer's proper name–the proper noun you use when yous log on–and your password. Then cullGet out.

Conclusion

Now yous're set to shoot with your camera and have all your photos transferred to the calculator. This should work with all Lumix cameras capable of Wifi and I've personally used it with the GX8, GH5, GH4, and GX85. It works on both RAW or JPEG images, and the pictures are recorded to your SD card at the same time, then you've actually got two copies. Next time you desire to shoot tethered to your PC, y'all can simply cull your PC from the History menu in the camera (if you use the same binder–if you change the folder, y'all'll have to become through the procedure above again). Shooting tethered is a not bad tool and so you can see your pictures in full resolution immediately. You lot're going to beloved this technique.

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