USB 3.0 Tethered Shooting, New Macbook Pro / iMac
Hi there... I am currently shooting with a D800E and an IQ160 back (on an RZ iiD), mainly tethered - on location (MBP 2010) and in studio (iMac 2011).
The upgrade to use Apple's USB 3.0 - especially the newly announced iMac, looks too good to miss - especially when the buffer of the D800 shooting tethered fills very quickly at full res, as well as the ready-to-shoot recycle of the IQ160 (despite the 1fps quote of the back - more like 0.5 fps) on FW800 are both painfully frustrating.
Like many, i shoot on average 2k captures per day / shoot on both DSLR and DB, and having the strongest, most reliable workflow possible, balanced with the portability of an iMac in rental studios and laptop on location is imperative. Crashing, slow computers shooting tethered often leads to shooting to card, which many of my clients dislike these days.
I apologise to all who may have already covered this ground, but please can this with experience answer the following for all of us interested in good, reliable workflow...
1. Is tethered Nikon D800(E) capture speed vastly improved using USB 3.0 connection compared to USB 2.0? Please, only native USB 3.0 answers since PCi cards are of not interest.
2. Has anyone been tethering their IQ using USB 3.0 and if so, is the USB 3.0 tethered connection of the IQ160 back vastly improved compared to the FW800 connection?
Many thanks in advance for your time in answering these tech questions...
The upgrade to use Apple's USB 3.0 - especially the newly announced iMac, looks too good to miss - especially when the buffer of the D800 shooting tethered fills very quickly at full res, as well as the ready-to-shoot recycle of the IQ160 (despite the 1fps quote of the back - more like 0.5 fps) on FW800 are both painfully frustrating.
Like many, i shoot on average 2k captures per day / shoot on both DSLR and DB, and having the strongest, most reliable workflow possible, balanced with the portability of an iMac in rental studios and laptop on location is imperative. Crashing, slow computers shooting tethered often leads to shooting to card, which many of my clients dislike these days.
I apologise to all who may have already covered this ground, but please can this with experience answer the following for all of us interested in good, reliable workflow...
1. Is tethered Nikon D800(E) capture speed vastly improved using USB 3.0 connection compared to USB 2.0? Please, only native USB 3.0 answers since PCi cards are of not interest.
2. Has anyone been tethering their IQ using USB 3.0 and if so, is the USB 3.0 tethered connection of the IQ160 back vastly improved compared to the FW800 connection?
Many thanks in advance for your time in answering these tech questions...
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