How to tether with Capture One and still have images write to the card in your Canon EOS R5 Camera

Tethering Tools Cables
TetherPro USB-C to USB Female Adapter (Extender), 15' (4.6m) (High-Visibility Orange)

Canon EOS R5 Mirrorless Digital Camera (Body Only)

Canon BG-R10 Battery Grip

People ask me about tethering all of the time. In Lightroom it was a struggle, even with Tether Tools cables, but when I started using Capture One, I wasn’t thrilled that the images were only written to my computer’s hard drive. So I set up this workaround so that photos would write to both my Canon camera and computer, creating an instant backup of my data and allowing me to review images in the EVF and on the LCD.

By default, in Capture One Pro, tethering with result in your images only being written to your computer. I personally think this could be risky if you have a hard drive failure and it also makes it so you can’t review images in your EVF or on the back of your camera. But there is a work-around.

The first thing you want to do is go to Capture One 20 - Preferences - capture and then make sure that canon is unchecked and then restart the application.

Make sure other applications that might try to access your camera are closed, like photos.

Now open EOS Utility 3 and click on remote shooting. It might automatically launch when you connect your camera.

Then click on the folder icon on the top right under AF/MF.

Under Destination folder browse to where you would like to write the images. For me that’s always the date and subject and then a new folder called raw. Now press open or hit enter. Make sure create a subfolder is unticked and then press ok.

Now you want to click on the computer icon right below ISO. In the popup window select computer and camera memory card. This is the key to having your images write to both the camera and the computer. Hit Ok.

Next in Capture One go to the Library tab and press plus icon next to folders and navigate to the raw folder you just created and the Eos utility destination and select add. And then open it in the library.

Now go up to camera - select hot folder - then navigate to our raw folder and click open. Then back under camera make sure “hot folder enabled” is checked. Next, Just pop off a few frames and make sure its working. And we’re done!

[fredingham]

Thank you John, that was a very clear explanation of how to tether 'with' Capture One using the EOS utility. One thing I noticed when doing this myself - You must be in Catalog mode, this will not work in Session mode (which makes sense) however, you lose the ability to have CO adjustments applied to your images as they are taken. One of the nice things about the EOS utility is that it will allow you to take RAW+JPEG and only download the JPEG if desired - this is perfect for one of my use cases. Nice work, thank you for sharing.

[nadams]

Hi John, thank you so much for doing this video. I just started trying to tether my camera (Canon R6) in C-1. I have looked all over to get instructions on how to do so, yours has been the best for me. That is not to say that the others did not work; they just did not work for me (too much talk about unnecessary stuff). You got right to the point, and walked me through the process. I am sure it will get easier the more I do it. Thank you!

[bobrob]

Hey John, love your channel. Just popping in here to say that this is now a setting directly in Capture One. You can go to the "Capture" tab in the Settings menu and choose to have it write to both. However, for my Canon R5, this caused lots of connection issues specifically because of the SD slot. By removing the SD card and only using the CF card, everything connects correctly. Hope this was helpful, cheers!

[johnpozzoli]

Thank you so much for showing us how to save to both card and computer. I have not been able to find this information anywhere else.(EOS 6d Mark II)

[LisaRettenbacher]

I don't use Canon or Capture one, but I'm still leaving this comment, because you are great 🤘

[PortraitJunkies]

Finally got my hands on the R5. First time shooting tethered tomorrow. Wish me luck!

[MikePearcePhoto]

Perfect - just what I needed for my Canon 5D. Thank you for sharing this method.

[jamiefraser]

This was the first thing I noticed when moving to Canon from Sony and I must admit I was whilst I'm glad this work around exists I do wish it didn't need to be so complex - especially since EOS utility itself seems to be quite fussy on my mac and wont recognise my camera every time.

[rongoodger]

I use canon EOS Utility. Called Canon and they could not tell me how to have the image on the camera card as well as computer. Thank you for that awesome bit of knowledge!!!

[QuantzPhoto]

Thanks for sharing, I'll refer everyone to this video when I get asked!!

[jasonjones]

My goodness! Thank you for this. THis helped me figure out my wireless tethering problem with Capture One.

[abbyfish]

This is a great option. Thanks for finding this out and sharing the information.

[veganburrito]

straight and to the point, hallelujah.

[VolcanoGirlNZ]

You are AMAZING thank you so much for the excellent advice! Much appreciated

[fuzzytalz]

Very helpful, John. Thanks for sharing!

[MichaelGomezwestlightaerials]

You are so nice to reply and help me with this. I can see them on my computer but not on my camera when I push play.

[ratanvhatkar]

this video is so helpful. Thank you so much :)

[indranildas]

Thank you so much it works amazingly superb

[jonasreichert]

Simply backup you session on an external hard drive after every motif you shot. Tethering into Capture 1 directly is way smoother and you can use live view etc.
But in the end it is still personal preference.

[frederickthephotographer]

Hello I live this idea and you made great points. I also live how you kept it short and sweet. However I still have a problem, I shoot with Nikon.