Shooting tethered to external SSD
Ideally what I would like to do is shoot tethered using a laptop and external SSD. This will allow me to get the looks and basic edits as well as client favorites and ratings during the shoot. Then once I get home I can off load that session to my main editing work station for the bulkier editing process as that machine is more powerful.
Also how powerful of a laptop would I need for tethered shooting if I am just adjust WB, Exposure, contrast and basic sliders?
I will be using a GFX 50r so the files will be somewhat large.
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Hi, connect the camera and the USB, in the register: camera set: next Location to the USB folder you want. For your camera and the laptop may be it is good to ask people in the Fuji-X-forum. My X-Pro2 RAF runs fine with MacBook Pro (Retina, Mitte 2012), 2,3 GHz Intel Core i7, 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3, OSX 10.13.6. Reg. lars 0 -
Shooting tethered to an external drive is not a best practice. Better to shoot to a session on your internal drive. The slightest hicup in the connection of the external disk can result in loss of data or even crash your session.
Regarding the power of your machine you tether into, it depends on whether you are a low or high volume shooter. For high volumes of images you obviously need a more powerful machine for writing to disk and rendering previews.0 -
I would also shoot to the laptop - use the SSD as a backup instead! 0 -
Yeah that makes sense. Do any of you shoot tethered? Does a dedicated GPU help much with tethered import speed??
I ran some quick tests on my desktop and it seemed that it helped some but I am not sure.0 -
I shoot 90% tethered.
It helps with preview generation and quick edits during shooting tethered (unless you auto-apply things that override hardware acceleration like dust removal via LCC profile). It does not help with the general import speed/transfer speed. That's only due to the speed of your harddrive/ssd and the speed of the camera interface.
So the image might pop up slightly quicker due to the preview rendering being faster.0 -
Any one know how to connect P65+ to new Macbook Pro ? Macbook doesn't have firewire now
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You will find your answer here (spoiler alert: a Thunderbolt3 dock):
https://www.phaseone.com/en/Search/Article?articleid=1843&languageid=1
I suggest next time to create a new thread, as this thread has a different topic. Even better, for Phase One hardware questions, the Phase One forum is still the best place to go:
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I have successfully connected my P65+ back to a modern laptop via a Thunderbolt 3 => Thunderbolt 2 and a Thunderbolt 2 => Firewire 800 Adapter.
This worked well under Windows as long as you disabled the Windows Driver Verification (or something alike).
Some claim that this does not work with a Mac but a friend mine used the exact same connection with his Macbook Pro and he told me it worked without any issues.
Naturally it is not recommended to use two adapters but as long as it works and it keep the digital back alive I'm all for it.0 -
I was thinking in the same direction but did not want to advise 2 adapters. I appreciate your feedback from the field, C-M-B.
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I agree, it's not the most comfortable thing and you have to take care not to accidentally unplug one of the adapters by tugging on the cable.
Of course these adapters won't deliver any power to the back so you have to use batteries and you can't use active repeaters for the fire-wire cable, so you're limited to a max of 4.5m.
I've also found that with the use of a Thunderbolt2=>Firewire Adapter the connection relies on a good cable. If the cable has slight defects (that would not otherwise affect anything on a regular connection) it will cause an unstable connection and/or corrupt images.0
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