Tethering software

Remote control your camera via USB cable. For use with a turntable and/or Live Reconstruction.

Some manufacturers (Sony, Panasonic, FUJIFILM, Hasselblad. Canon EOS..) provide a free tool for your software others sell them (Nikon, Canon). Some commercial third party solutions are out there, too.

This list only contains free open-source projects.

1 DigiCamControl (Windows)

  • Multiple camera support

http://digicamcontrol.com/download

Supports many Nikon, Canon, Sony SLR models and a few other cameras.

Full list here: http://digicamcontrol.com/cameras

2 Entangle Photo (Linux)

https://entangle-photo.org/

Nikon or Canon DSLRs camera supporting ` <http://www.gphoto.org/doc/remote/>`_ remote capture in libgphoto2 will work with Entangle.

3 GPhoto (Linux)

http://www.gphoto.org/

4 Sofortbildapp (OSX)

http://www.sofortbildapp.com/

5 PkTriggerCord (Windows, Linux, Android)

for Pentax cameras

http://pktriggercord.melda.info/

https://github.com/asalamon74/pktriggercord/

4 Darktable (Windows, Linux, OSX)

http://www.darktable.org/

https://www.darktable.org/usermanual/en/tethering_chapter.html

WifiRemoteControl

For some cameras wifi control can be used.

LMaster https://github.com/Rambalac/GMaster for some Lumix cameras for example.

There are even tools for PC to connect to ActionCams using Wifi…