What's New

Live view latency work and medium format support.

Live View

• Latency overhaul — live view now runs at the camera's native frame rate instead of a fixed polling floor. The previous ceiling was roughly 6.5fps regardless of what the camera could deliver
• Direct frame delivery — frames are decoded and served as binary rather than encoded and passed through the browser layer, which removes the per-frame overhead that caused visible stutter

Camera Support

• Phase One IQ4 — support over IP via the Capture Pilot interface. ISO, aperture, shutter and exposure mode are readable and settable from the app. Phase One tethers over network only on macOS, there is no USB path

Point releases through the first months after launch. Grouped here rather than listed individually.

Colour and RAW

• White balance eyedropper — sample any neutral in the frame to set white balance. Toolbar button or the W key
• RAW + JPEG ingest — fixed handling when the camera is set to record both formats to the card

Live View

• Stability and refresh — ongoing fixes ahead of the 1.0.62 latency work

The first public release of TETHER STUDIO. Everything you need for professional tethered photography on macOS. $99 one-time. No subscription.

Tethered Capture

• 2,900+ camera support via our proprietary capture engine — Sony, Canon, Nikon, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Leica, Hasselblad, Phase One
• USB and WiFi tethering — Sony WiFi via JSON-RPC, Canon WiFi via CCAPI, USB via PTP for all brands
• Sony Mode 300 protocol — full support for A7 IV, A7R V, A9 III, A1, and newer Sony bodies
• Remote shutter — Space bar or on-screen button. Interval timer for timelapse.
• Live View — real-time camera preview on screen

Smart Cull AI

• Blur detection — sharpness scoring 0–100 for every image
• Face focus scoring — MediaPipe-based eye sharpness analysis
• Exposure analysis — clipped highlights and crushed shadows flagging
• Duplicate grouping — perceptual hash clustering with best-pick highlighting
• Blink detection — automatic flagging of closed eyes
• 100% local processing — no cloud, no API fees, 0.5s/image on Apple Silicon

Art Director Mode

• Markup tools — pen, arrow, circle, rectangle, text annotations
• Numbered revision pins — track changes across iterations
• Export markups as JPEG — send annotated images to clients

Pro Export Engine

• Output formats — RAW passthrough, TIFF (8/16-bit), JPEG (quality 1–100), PNG
• ICC color profiles — sRGB, AdobeRGB, ProPhoto RGB, Display P3
• IPTC metadata embedding — creator, copyright, contact via exiftool
• Output sharpening — OpenCV unsharp mask with configurable radius/amount
• Resize — Lanczos algorithm, long edge or percentage
• Watermark — text overlay with position, opacity, size controls
• Rename templates — {date}, {time}, {camera}, {seq}, custom patterns
• Background batch — export continues while you keep shooting

Session Management

• Session templates — pre-configure client, folder, naming, metadata per job type
• Shot lists — track required shots, check off as you go
• Dual backup — simultaneous write to two locations
• Crash recovery — automatic session persistence, survives app crashes and power loss
• Compare view — side-by-side image comparison
• Focus stacking — automatic alignment and stacking
• XMP sidecar — metadata preserved in industry-standard format

Client View

• Full-screen presentation — clean view for on-set client review
• Network viewer — iPad viewing via local network, zero client install
• Approve/reject workflow — client can mark selects

Interface

• Dark native UI — forced dark titlebar on macOS, pure black workspace
• 48 keyboard shortcuts — full overlay with ? key
• Collapsible info bars — stars, labels, filename, Open In
• Configurable toolbar — LIST · CULL · STACK views
• Lights Out mode — dims everything except the image

Licensing

• $99 one-time perpetual license — no subscription
• 7-day free trial — all features, no card required
• 2 machines per license — laptop + desktop
• Works offline after initial activation
• macOS 11+ — Apple Silicon and Intel