* Anton Aylward <li...@antonaylward.com> [03-17-19 10:55]: > My experiences with tethering using Linux openSuse, and with my Sony and my > Canon and my Fuji, and not just with DT but with other applications left me > unsatisfied. > > I find it is slow and drains the batter something awful! > > I've completely given up on tethering. > Now I just pop the card into the PC's reader and use my browser to move the > files. The card looks like another disk and the transfer rate is a lot faster > than the serial like of USB cables. I get none of the problems mentioned in > this thread. > > I can imagine "out in the field", lacking spacer cards after a days intensive > shooting and having filled what I have, and having no PC and laptop, laving to > 'tether' to a portable hard drive to 'unload' the camera. But that is a > completely different use case and doesn't involve DT. > > I strongly advise transferring from the card rather than tethering. > The worst case is that you will need a card reader to plug into the USB port > on > your PC. You can get on on eBay for under a dollar, less than the cost a USB > cable; Sometimes they come free with SD cards :-) > > I'm a proponent of K.I.S.S. If tethering doesn't work for you, if the > work-flow > is too awkward, the go with something that does work, that eases the > work-flow.
In this case I believe "tethering" refers to controlling the camera using the computer screen/controls rather than "just" to transfer images. fwiw: I have successfully "tethered" 4 different nikon bodies at one time or another but that scenario does not fit my present workflow. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
