On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 6:53 PM, Bill <anotherdrunken...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 5/9/2016 10:18 AM, Larry Colen wrote: >> >> How well does tethering work? What about file transfer? > > I did a little bit of tethering experimentation with my iPad yesterday. I > didn't do any range testing, but it works well enough. > There is a 200.00 piece of software that you can buy that allows real > tethering to a computer. I haven't bothered as it isn't something I do. > I expect Bruce Walker is using that software with his 645.
You might reasonably expect that, but nope. :) Pentax supplies a free Lightroom image tethering plugin that works over USB. I refuse to have anything to do with it because: (A) wires; (B) if it glitches you lose the shot(s) [nothing is saved to the SD card while in use]; (C) I'd have to have Lightroom running on something in the studio. (I don't own a notebook computer.) There is also a full-featured for-pay Pentax solution, and 3rd party packages that supposedly work better than either of the Pentax solutions, but I'm happy with my wireless solution, so haven't bothered to test any of them. I tether -- images only -- using a 3 year-old Eye-Fi Pro X2 8GB card in the 645 to send low res jpegs to my iPad Air. I have no control over camera functions, but that's okay. I stick the iPad up on a light stand for the creative team and myself to see so I can judge lighting and the other folks can ooh and aah. :) Even though I'm sending the lowest possible quality jpegs to the Eye-Fi, it still can't keep up when the shooting gets rapid, so sometimes it's more of a PITA than useful. -- -bmw -- 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.
