The Photo Worth $3000

A photo of the moment I began to realize I was about to save myself $3000. No, this isn’t staged.

Back in September of last year, I got a Macbook Air with the M2 chip to use as my mobile editor and “big” screen in the field. Using Lightroom Classic’s tethering option, I’d take a photo and it would blow into the editor so the client could view what I was seeing on the bigger screen. The only problem is the laptop could barely handle Lightroom Classic without beach balling with every action. When you have to make the client wait for your laptop to do a basic task, it’s not a great look.

It was obvious I needed more than 8gb of RAM (or as Apple now calls it: Unified Memory). A quick trip to Apple’s website to look at what a MacBook Pro with a beefed-up M3 chip cost resulted in a thousand-yard stare. I weighed my financial options. It was possible, but I’d be hurting afterward.

Flash forward to a couple hours of research later and I loaded NX Tether—a tethering software designed for Nikon cameras by the company itself—to my Macbook Air. I took my first test shot (pictured) and it ran flawlessly without any hiccups. Blowing it into NX Studio, the software’s companion editor, was smooth as silk and nearly instant. I didn’t need to used Lightroom Classic at all. I could keep my $3000. NX Tether and Studio completely solved my issue for free.

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The Photo Worth $3000

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