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Tethered shooting directly to external SSD

Nestor

Hello there, i was wondering if its possible to directly shoot tethered to an external SSD on my iPad Pro. I can connect a tethering cable and ssd with an dock, so thats not the problem.

Thanks :).

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  • Michael Bellis

    Nestor, at first I thought you were onto something new, but knowing that most cameras will "store" photos to its' memory card and you've got a copy on the iPad, I can't see the reason to use an external SSD directly onto an iPad.

    You could, just off-load the photos from the iPad or memory card directly to a SSD after the shoot (bearing in mind you'll still have a least 2 sets of photos, one copy on iPad and one or two copies on the camera).

    Besides, connecting to many devices to the iPad will slow down the transfer on any such "file transfer" and drain the iPad battery more quickly. 

    Now, I am wondering if your iPad has a small hard drive, better to sell current iPad, save your money from buying a SSD and invest in a new iPad with at least 1TB. Less to carry and Less to go wrong!

    or try a Nexto ID, download after the event.

    https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1419021-REG/nexto_di_nv01p_1002_portable_all_in_one.html

     

     

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  • Carlos Nunez

    Michael,

    I too need to shoot tethered with my iPad and have the ability to keep my files in an external SSD.  Why is that?

    I do School and Sports Photography and the ability to create a Session with the Name of the Person I am shooting is essential. I do this with my laptop but prefer to do it with my iPad now. When I arrive, I have all my directory organized and work in the post production without having to transfer nor wait. Right now, as I know, the only App that can give us the file destination folder to choose is Cascable. Hopefully CO can implement this ability.  I believe there is a lot of possibility for this feature since file organization is essential.

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