Anyone started shooting D3X tethered yet?

Henry1

• 3. April 2009 06:29

I want to find out how fast files from D3X are showing up in 4.7? For 1DS MKIII I find average time to be 2 to 3 secs. If speed is the same for D3X then I may be tempted to get a D3X body since I have plenty of Nikon lenses idling.

Thanks.

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  Permanently deleted user

  • 3. April 2009 06:44

  Hi
  I had a quick go with my D3x yesterday and was finding it took around 5 secs to see a preview, tried on 2 newish Macs and both were same, this was full size NEF.
  I found this rather to slow for my needs.
  HTH
  Andy

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  Henry1

  • 3. April 2009 07:04

  Oh dear.
  
  Then it is not going to be much better than shooting through Camera Control Pro 2 to a hot folder. Somehow, only the Canons play better with C1 Pro. I love tethering 12Mp 5D because it is so fast but 12Mp D2X via CCPro 2 takes 5 to 6 secs to show up in C1 Pro. This kind of speed makes no sense to shoot tethered.
  
  I wonder how fast are files from P45/P45+ reaching C1 Pro? Anyone?

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  Permanently deleted user

  • 3. April 2009 19:12

  Hi
  Raw files shot with p45+ take around 1.5 secs to show on screen, much better than D3x, shame as USB 2 should be as fast as firewire ??
  Does anyone know why the Nikon is so slow using USB ?
  Andy

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  Lance_L

  • 3. April 2009 19:19

  Until Apple gets there image extension driver fixed there is nothing PhaseOne can do.

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  Permanently deleted user

  • 3. April 2009 20:49

  Hi Lance
  Can you explain a little more, does the "image extension driver" just affect USB 2 and not firewire, hence when using USB 2 its slower than firewire..
  Thanks
  Andy

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  Lance_L

  • 3. April 2009 22:54

  Hi Andy,
  
  Actually I'm refering to the issue of how slow tethered shooting becomes after a number of images with the Nikons. It doesn't matter if you are shooting firewire or usb.. The image capture extension is the issue with the tethered shooting coming to a halt as far as speed goes. I'm done multiply tests with this shooting D3's and sent the info to apple so they can see the amount of memory that isn't being released from image capture extension shown by my activity monitor.
  
  Phaseone and Apple are aware of this issue but Phaseone's hands are basically tied with this until Apple gets off there ass. This also seems to be a nikon issue only.
  
  Lance

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  Jonathan Gilbert

  • 4. April 2009 02:38

  Its definitely a Canon issue as well. Phase One transfer and display times are faster since we can design our own tethering protocol to match the software perfectly.. with DSLR we have to rely on Nikon and Canon SDK which involves quite a bit of Apple's file handling.

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