Unusable, slow tethering with canon 5dsr- and a solution

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• 17. September 2016 11:13

Tethering for lifestyle, fast shooting is far too slow with the 5dsr. It was barely tolerable with the 5dmk3, but with these new files, I am having to look for other ways to tether.

One solution I use to use when I need very fast tethering was to shoot raw plus small jpegs with canon software and only send the jpegs to the computer. It is very fast, only a second of so to get there and preview.
But I hate canon software.

Can phase please consider an option to only tether with the jpegs off the camera, and let the raws go to card?
I know it can be done as camranger does it.

With the film industry they make proxies for fast work flows, and this would be basically what you would be doing. The raws could be downloaded later, and better yet - be made to share the tags that the previously tether jpegs have got.

cheers paul

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  SFA

  • 17. September 2016 12:16

  Paul,
  
  You best option would be to raise this as a Support Case and get an official response. This is, after all, primarily intended to be a User to User forum.
  
  I suspect that what a Camranger does is what I can do with my 1D3 using the Wireless File Transfer adapter from Canon. It will work faster if I use it wired - but it's only USB2 and of course the 1D3 files are much smaller.
  
  If you are not familiar with the WFT devices, basically the adapter allows connection to an external device which it sees as another drive - either directly connected or via a network. It does absorb some performance of course but works pretty well.
  
  However that is the equivalent of using C1 in Hot folder mode rather than fully tethered camera control. In fact if you are only sending relatively small OOC jpgs out of the camera I'm not really sure how C1 is of any benefit to you compared to other options. Maybe having someone else to manage the settings and file naming, etc, while you focus on shooting?
  
  But that's a different discussion, not a specifically technical question.
  
  HTH.
  
  Grant

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