Tethered shooting with Lightroom

[Ben H]

Hi guys,

Ok, I'm sorting out a tethered shooting setup. It's working fine, with one minor drawback. I'll explain:-

I'm using a Canon EOS-450D, with Canon's EOS Utility for remote shooting. This has a preview window, but the image is not colour managed and the window looks a little "cheap", so I have the preview window closed.

When I take a shot, the EOS Utility retrieves the image from the camera, and saves it to a folder I specify.

Then I have Lightroom 2 watching that folder and auto-importing the image - Lightroom's image display is *much* nicer. While the overall shot-to-screen time is not very fast (takes about 9 seconds with RAW files) it's fine for my budget.

Ok.

So now comes the minor issue. Bear with me

I'm using Lightroom 2 on a Macbook Pro, with an external (larger) monitor. I want the grid view on the MBP screen (call it monitor 1), with the full screen image on the second larger monitor (monitor 2) so that both myself and the client can see the shots as they come in.

Ok. If I put LR's main window on monitor 2, switch that to full screen loupe view, and open a grid on the other monitor, it works as expected - auto-imported images are selected by default, so when a new image comes into LR, it will be displayed in full on the large monitor.

But this means LR's main window has to be on the larger monitor. And I would like it the other way around (as the MBP is closer to me while shooting). And if I rig it up this way - LR's main window on monitor 1 switched to grid view, with monitor 2 a full screen loupe view - when a new image comes into LR, it is *not* selected by default - this means new images do not show up on the big monitor - it stays showing the last selected image.

So in short: if loupe view is in the main window, it automatically shows the newly imported pic. If loupe view is in the secondary window, it does not switch to the newly imported pic.

Now either I've missed some auto-update setting somewhere, or it's a quirk of LR - has anybody run into this, or have a solution? I'm going to keep fiddling, it's just a bit annoying when the main window will auto-update, but the second monitor window will not.

Sorry for the long-winded question!