Christine Aguila wrote: >On Sep 12, 2012, at 6:12 PM, Bruce Walker <bruce.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I don't think this is yet practical. Assuming the camera has built-in >> Verizon 4G LTE, and you shoot 400 RAWs in one outing, your camera will >> be pushing files up to the cloud for more than 50 minutes. If you >> don't have the fastest service presently available, considerably >> longer. This will likely deplete your battery, by the way. >> >> You'd have plenty of time to drop your camera in the lake. :-) >> >> - an 8 Megabyte RAW is 64 megabits >> - Verizon 4G LTE uploads at 6.46 megabits/sec average >> http://www.bgr.com/2012/06/19/verizons-4g-lte-network-outperforms- > >It's a dream, Bruce, that I hope some day comes true--that is, we'll >have the technology to greatly trim that 50 minute wait down to a >few minutes wait. Just a wishful dream. Cheers, Christine
It will remain a dream: By that time we'll be shooting raw files that are a lot bigger than used in Bruce's calculations above, which will cancel out the increase in bandwidth. :-) (Personally, I have zero interest in an SLR with a network link. That's what phone cams are for.) -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
