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On tethering...and it's good!

alessandro ceccnoi
OK I have complained more than a few times about how my D800E was having all sorts of problems tethering to my macbook retina 15. It was a real nightmare. However I must say that I followed the advise of a friend and bought a pretty expansive specialized thethering USB cable and... no MORE! problems. I had a session yesterday, camera on, off. Unpluged in the middle of the session to shoot outside, went back in and plugged back in. Absolutely zero problems. It worked like a charm.
So I should like to apologize to PhaseOne for all my complaints about tethering. ( the rest of the other complains stands 😊 )
and word of advise. Go out and buy a good/great cable. Your problems will go away
regards
Alessandro
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  • Paul Steunebrink
    Issues with tethering are more often than not related to cables. The Nikon D800 series with their USB 3 connectivity put a much larger pressure on high quality cables then we ever imagined. The lowered power output of newer MacBook Pro's does further emphasize this.

    Your post is valuable feedback for the rest of us. Thanks.
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  • Edward Caruso
    yes using a USB repeater is the only thing you can really do to make DSLR's tether better. (Of course we should all be using SSDs.)
    Been saying this for a long time but it would be nice if PO made it more obvious.
    Now there are USB3 repeaters - but they do not work with non-USB3 cameras like Canons.
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  • Joe Amato
    Can you tell us the name of the cable you purchased?
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  • Ulf Liljegren
    So I should like to apologize to PhaseOne for all my complaints about tethering. ( the rest of the other complains stands 😊 )


    No need, but yes we are very much well aware about this.
    It it surprising how few accept our advice in this subject which is cable related.
    With our own cameras we sell both USB and firewire cables which we ensures it is up to par.
    3rd party sub-par equipment is alway a challenge since customers thinks it is cheap and good, two things that seldom goes hand in hand.
    On 35mm equipment this is a challenge even more so.
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  • Ulf Liljegren
    So I should like to apologize to PhaseOne for all my complaints about tethering. ( the rest of the other complains stands 😊 )


    No need, but yes we are very much well aware about this.
    It it surprising how few accept our advice in this subject which is cable related.
    With our own cameras we sell both USB and firewire cables which we ensures it is up to par.
    3rd party sub-par equipment is alway a challenge since customers thinks it is cheap and good, two things that seldom goes hand in hand.
    On 35mm equipment this is a challenge even more so.
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  • SFA
    I thought it might be worth widening the USB3 cable observations here - just for reference.

    I use Windows and have a top end Dell workstation with USB3 ports. I bought a 3mtr Super Speed spec cable to go with a new self powered external USB3 drive.

    Using the .5 mtr cable that came with disk all is well.

    Using the 3mtr cable the notebook struggles to see the disk. Sometime it does, other times it does not.

    If I connect the USB3 cable to a USB2 port on the notebook it works every time. Once recognised I can swap the cable to a USB3 port and the disk will re-connect immediately although I get a message to say the device can work faster if connected to a Super Speed port - despite that the port is Super Speed spec. The actual speed available seems to be a little variable with this long cable.

    Once working it is usually consistent although hibernation can be a challenge.

    For my purposes I can live with the semi-intermittent operation for now but if I was tethering to a USB3 enabled device (none of my cameras are above USB2) I would be seeking out a better cable solution immediately.

    I thought I would share this experience on the basis that the nature of the challenge is not unique to Macs or Capture One.



    Grant
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  • Edward Caruso
    re: USB3
    Yes they do not appear to be as backwards compatible as promised.
    I generally use USB3 Macs with Canons (all USB2 at the moment)
    For a client I bought USB3 repeater cables from TetherTools to replace some broken USB2 repeater cables from Iogear.
    TetherTools says these cables are backwards compatible, I figured might as well get the USB3 cables now for when Canon gets its act together and releases modern spec'd cameras.
    The TetherTools USB3 repeater does not work with this setup though after all.
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