Is Tethered Shooting Worth it? | Mark Wallace 

Teresa is just great. Back when I joined RU-vid 240P was the only option. How things have changed.

That's always great to hear! I hope I can create more videos soon. I'm living on the road so it's a bit more difficult with no studio or sponsors to pay for the content. :)

Maybe I should bring back 1 on 1!

Thanks u my man

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Hello!

Glad you think so!

Thank you! Cheers!

I don’t think so. Check directly with Tether Tools to make sure.

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@@tomtoms15 Sorry, I wasn't asking you!!

@@TehJMastuh never said u did, kid..

I don't do classes in Arizona anymore. I have all new classes on CreativeLive, though.

I save to both when I'm shooting, just in case. Then I make backups of the images later. I always have two copies of any critical work.

@@MarkWallaceVideos Does it automatically save to both, or do you have to configure for both?

@@russellwright9961 it’s automatic.

@@MarkWallaceVideos Ok, thanks…

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Which Sony camera? Generally, a wireless connection isn't going to be fast enough for RAW files, you really need the cable. But I'll do some research and see if I can find some local sony shooters for a possible video. I only have Canon and Leica.

@@MarkWallaceVideos - is there a possibility of shooting RAW to memory card and jpeg as wireless? I have the Sony A99 mark 2, but will be upgrading soon, even quicker to upgrade if I know how to shoot wireless tethered, as I want to shoot portraits outdoors and in studio, but mostly outdoors. Thanks for your help. I already subscribed.

@@MarkWallaceVideos - indeed, wireless is way too slow. Even wired is not extremely fast relative to my camera's 20 FPS raw full resolution rate. What's very important regarding the "wires" is the camera and computer port specifications plus the cable specifications. Problem with USB is that we now have connector specification USB-C that says nothing about the protocol being supported, hence nothing about the speed you get. The confusion also means with one USB-C cable things may work as expected, with another things may not work at all or less than expected. Here, original commenter needs to RTFM and do their homework rather than asking the teacher for the answer. One of the MythBusters recently did a YT video about an Apple-branded 4' USB-C cable of US$120 (plus sales tax). X-rays and whatnot demonstrated the cable internally consists of a processor on either end in the connector and between these a grid of thick and thin wires. To get 40 Gbps, the processor splits the incoming bitstream across multiple wires and these bits are properly put in series at the other end again (this way of signal exchange used to be called "multiplexing"). Also, that cable uses several wires to relay 100W of charge power and the connectors - processors in there - can negotiate about what power the cable can handle. Myth not busted, except removal of the Apple logo can reduce price dramatically. This USB [male bovine excrement] all has become finicky for the consumer who does not understand this. So the Apple USB-C cable may be able to handle USB protocol version 4 with 40 Gbps and Thunderbolt 3 or 4 with 40 Gbps and 100W Power Delivery. Buy a dirt cheap USB-C cable and it may support USB protocol version 2 with 480 Mbps (less than 0.5 Gbps) with about 5W of power relay. Higher power relay than that USB2 5W now also comes in flavours and versions, one flavour being PD ("Power Delivery" - yet another ambiguous English name like "windows") that also comes in versions and there is another flavour too (something Qualcomm). "Interoperability" or "compatibility" is protocol, and both flavour and version dependent and you may end up in what I call the "release squeeze" if you mismatch things. Tether Tools (and I) have this long (15' or 16' or 5m=16.4') cable with USB-C male connector at either end and this transfers reasonably fast (IIRC at up to 10 Gbps, the real number depending on the connected devices). I may buy the next one described below as replacement. Tether Tools (TT) alternatively have a USB-C cable with male connector at one end and a female at the other end. That female connector has a signal amplifier and the whole cable can run at double the speed - but what you get depends on the connected devices. So if your camera and computer can handle 20 Gbps over their USB-C ports, then Tether Tools' male-female USB-C cable combined with a very good and not too long male-male cable between the TT female connector and the camera will be much faster (100%) than the TT male-male base case. The TT MF cable being equally long, you could add, say, a 2m long 3rd party MM USB4/TB4 cable to the camera and now have almost 7m cable distance with a guaranteed 20 Gbps (excluding system latency). I should still be able to use the 10 Gbps TT MM cable and get to double the length of what I now have, except maxed at the 10 Gbps of the first (passive, i.e. not amplified) TT MM USB-C cable. Note 1: USB 1.0/Low-Speed: 1.5 Mbps (Megabits per second) USB 1.1/Full-Speed: 12 Mbps USB 2.0/Hi-Speed: 480 Mbps USB 3.0/SuperSpeed: 5 Gbps (Gigabit per second) USB 3.1/SuperSpeed: 10 Gbps USB 3.2 Gen 2x2: 20Gbps USB 4: up to 40Gbps Note 2: b=bit and B=byte and 1B=8b So your 50MB raw file (losslessly compressed) is 50*8 = 400 Mbits (400 million bits or 400*POWER(2,20)= 419,430,400 bits) Note 3: So that 400 Mbit file takes 0.8 sec data transfer with old USB 2? No, add overall system latency and then the speed may be reduced by, say, the memory card in your notebook computer that you write to. I tested tethering by writing the images to the micro-SD card in the notebook. This saves lifetime of the notebook's SSD, but the I/O speed is dramatically micro-SD-UHS-I slow. When I do the real thing, I hook up a 40 Gbps (= 5,000 MB/s) Thunderbolt (TB) drive to the TB port where tethering and raw processing will happen, and the TT cable to the20 Gbps USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 port of the notebook. Note 4: the communication between your camera's firmware and your computer app may need to have a logical channel being set up for each data transaction and that adds time to the pumping across of the raw image data. Potentially, setting up or activating the channel may take more time than the data transfer. Also note that these communications may do some error management, meaning that data integrity is an added part of the data, communication, protocol. This again means that interruption of data transfer or another logical channel damaging the data, may force a "re-send" of (part of) the data that was engaged in being transferred. Thus slowing down transfer. In the case of Ethernet, the re-send is part of the protocol. How this plays in USB - don't know. Note that you might use a USB-to-Ethernet connector with your computer and you now have Ethernet protocol with resend potential over a USB connector. With Ethernet at 1 Gbps, you may end up at USB 2.0 net speed. And 10 Gbps Ethernet may give you 5 net Gbps. To get at or above such speeds, you need optimal cabling and a "non-blocking" switch (if not peer-to-peer connected). Then add device/protocol latency plus latency for each time the logical communication tunnel is set up. Note 5: Wi-Fi is a wireless version of Ethernet. The bandwidth you end up with cannot come close to your 1 Gbps wired connection. And as your Wi-Fi transceiver shares "ether" with other transceivers, the question is what you really end up with. You must compare "ether" to a large room in which you talk with another person and all goes well, until other communicators join the room and start chatting between them - you find yourself saying "what's that?" all the time. Note 6: Bottom line, pick the fastest USB cable that your camera and computer can support.

I would get in touch with Leica about using the card in the camera. I'm no expert but I think the worst that might happen is you get an error message. But still, Keica cameras are expensive.

@@thomastuorto9929 thanks - yes it seemed a strange question but the manual does say cards up to 256gb which i thought was odd.

@@russellallan8564 maybe 1TB cards didn’t exist when it was written

A 1TB or a 100TB card should be no problem, I’m not aware of any limitations to card size. A camera doesn’t care as long as it’s the right type.

@@TobyCostaRica Appreciate the reply - I thought that - I hadn't considered that 1TB cards weren't available when the manual was written

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Sounds more like you don’t understand than overkill…

@@russellwright9961 can't you read

@@wellwhatthen10101 I wouldn’t have answered if I couldn’t…