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Can Alpha shoot tethered?; i.e. can the shoot be sent to computer?
Topic Started: Jun 14 2008, 01:23 AM (519 Views)
way2see
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When my bro-in-law graduated last year, the ceremony have photographers that have a HUGE box clipped to their belts... The box turns out to be a transmitter for the image to be sent to a PC somewhere in the building...

I guess it may be possible that via the USB port, the camera is connected to such a transmitter... this will give more freedom in terms of movement.
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Just sharing my experience here...

Was doing the tethering shooting with Willis sometime ago.

Further to that, For those who have helped out during the recent PhotoAid mission will see how tethering and wireless communication work.

Anyway, I would use tethering not to shoot directly however, will use the laptop as a point where I can adjust few variable and get me to the point that what I shoot is what I want without any guess work. For example: I would do few frames in the beginning for a studio shoot to find out if the lighting ratio is correct, at what exposure, what Kelvin Setting and so on and so forth. Once I have that stuff calibrated, then I will shoot everything manual without tethering onto the laptop.

Nikon and I believe Canon have their "Wifi" build in to some of their high end DSLR which allow wireless transmission of the images to the Laptop or computer at some point away.

For now with Sony, all you need to do is run Sony Commander software that come with A-700 and then tether it to your viewing software... in this case, I am using Adobe Bridge.

Tethering is only good if you shoot something more static which you can control a lot of variable and get paid A LOT for the trouble. it is something I wouldn't even worry about it, if you don't have a team on the shoot (Well, at least 2 people team).

For those who would like to try out, make sure the USB cable is not longer than 5m and make sure someone yell out when you try to pull laptop off the desk... No I am not kidding...

Good luck with it.

For now, i am shooting old fashion way (CF card).

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