Just sent an inquiry to Photolab about teathering with my Sony A1 I’m looking to use Version 8 with - either - my MacBook M1 Pro or my Asus OLED (as I’m not sure which will give me the best color, performance… and mobility) FYI - was a Nikon shooter going back to the 80s - but now I shoot 90% video and their Z6 / Atomos “Filmmaker’s Kit” was a bust as they never got Apple to support their ProRes in FCPX… so had to switch to Sony $$$ but I still plan to shoot stills on the A1 and A9iii for high sync’d flash)
I can already see that Sony’s Imaging Edge software comes into play… An issue for Alpha One users stuck on the camera’s 1.32 version… as subsequent firmware updates this year have either broken the Wi-Fi connection or BRICKED cameras! And - the latest version of Imaging Edge is not executable w/o the camera being at 2.02 - which Sony is still not acknowledging as a PROBLEM 🤬
Another consideration - if you are shooting a LOT of teathered shots - you are writing to the laptop’s SSD (rather than downloading to an external SSD or HDR) and - deleting - from a laptop’s SSD requires that you run tools to recover that drive space (ineffectively so Apple can sell more hardware 🤬) so there is a trade-off down the line in being able to see your work immediately on a nice monitor… (But, at least, it’s not an iPhone where can never “get back” used SSD space… unless you REFORMAT the phone!!!)
The physics of why SSDs are faster is that it does not PHYSICALLY delete any files… so there is no Search/Seek disk rotation… it’s just a relative address index to retrieve data… but - more you delete - the more space you lose and the more complicated the indexing… that’s why you reformat camera SSDs (And that’s why Apple wants you to use up the SSDs on iPhones, IPads and Macs - as they rub their grubby greedy hands - advising you to GET A NEW AND BIGGER MACHINE!!!
Just sent an inquiry to Photolab about teathering with my Sony A1
I’m looking to use Version 8 with - either - my MacBook M1 Pro or my Asus OLED (as I’m not sure which will give me the best color, performance… and mobility)
FYI - was a Nikon shooter going back to the 80s - but now I shoot 90% video and their Z6 / Atomos “Filmmaker’s Kit” was a bust as they never got Apple to support their ProRes in FCPX… so had to switch to Sony $$$ but I still plan to shoot stills on the A1 and A9iii for high sync’d flash)
nice, thanks for the tips, I didn't know about the "live review" option, that's exactly what I needed!
Glad it was helpful!
I can already see that Sony’s Imaging Edge software comes into play…
An issue for Alpha One users stuck on the camera’s 1.32 version… as subsequent firmware updates this year have either broken the Wi-Fi connection or BRICKED cameras!
And - the latest version of Imaging Edge is not executable w/o the camera being at 2.02 - which Sony is still not acknowledging as a PROBLEM 🤬
Another consideration - if you are shooting a LOT of teathered shots - you are writing to the laptop’s SSD (rather than downloading to an external SSD or HDR) and - deleting - from a laptop’s SSD requires that you run tools to recover that drive space (ineffectively so Apple can sell more hardware 🤬) so there is a trade-off down the line in being able to see your work immediately on a nice monitor…
(But, at least, it’s not an iPhone where can never “get back” used SSD space… unless you REFORMAT the phone!!!)
That is no good. I haven't had that issue with external SSD hard drives, but it sounds like a pain.
The physics of why SSDs are faster is that it does not PHYSICALLY delete any files… so there is no Search/Seek disk rotation… it’s just a relative address index to retrieve data… but - more you delete - the more space you lose and the more complicated the indexing… that’s why you reformat camera SSDs
(And that’s why Apple wants you to use up the SSDs on iPhones, IPads and Macs - as they rub their grubby greedy hands - advising you to GET A NEW AND BIGGER MACHINE!!!