QUESTION
There is a significant delay between when I fire the shutter on my tethered camera and when the image is rendered fully in Capture One. How can I improve this?
ANSWER
First, check this article as most of the solutions found there will resolve any tethering issues, including slow performance:
Tethering problems: the camera is not connected or frequently disconnected
In addition to this, check that the camera is connected over the proper USB protocol. In System Profiler, under the USB section, find the camera and the Speed:
This indicates what speed the camera is connected:
- 12Mb/s: USB 1.1
- 480Mb/s: USB 2
- 5Gb/s: USB 3
If the camera is connecting slower than it should be, reconnect it and refresh System Profiler (via cmd+R). If it persists, try a different port on the machine, preferably on a different USB bus.
Comments
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Can you write an article on troubleshooting progressively slower import/rendering during a tethered shoot? For example, during a day-long tethered studio shoot, in the morning, the images are coming into the session and rendering quickly. By the afternoon, after shooting 2000+ images, they are coming in much slower. On the last shoot I did, this was the case. Reducing preview size to 900 px in Preferences did not help. What other sorts of tricks can I do. Begin a new session? Delete one of the cache folders?
Tom Thrasher did anyone get back to you on this problem? Have you been able to resolve on your own? Reducing the preview size works for us for about 20 minutes and then it runs at least 5 to 20 fotos back. We have tried cache and restarting and new sessions, but these things have not helped. Hope you have had some luck! I haven't tried changing the color profile yet, but I will, though that seems to address other previewing problems, not tether lag. Thanks, Ivano
We are having trouble tethering. Using Mark IV, we've read all the articles and did everything suggested. But we still getting some misfires. What could be the problem.
Today with tether was pain in the ass! so slow that i can made a coffe and drink it after shooting 20 images in a raw.
Does anyone find a solution to slow tethering? I’m facing this issue with many different cameras and it’s really annoying
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