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Shooting teathered & view/ordering stations?
Jim Pierce, Photographer
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Waltham | MA | USA | Posted: 6:48 PM on 04.14.10 |
->> I am planning for some large events I have next year and want to get more efficient in a few areas file transfer and view stations.
Two questions:
1. How do I shoot from point A and have the files transfered either wirelessly or corded 200' away to a central computer?
2. I am looking at getting a couple more viewing/ordering stations and am looking at low end laptops. What is your experience with the laptops vs a low end desktop? I just see ahuge convienient factor with laptops but most setups I have seen use small desktops and not laptops.
Looking forward to hearing your views and opinions.
Jim |
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Michael Granse, Photographer
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Urbana | IL | USA | Posted: 7:55 PM on 04.14.10 |
->> Here is a 200 foot Cat 5 cable for $29:
http://tinyurl.com/y39jjn5
If you shoot tethered to a laptop or shoot and then load your card to a laptop, you could run this 200 foot cable from your laptop to a hub connected to your central computer. There will be a bit of a bottleneck in the process if you are loading cards onto the laptop and then accessing them from the central computer. Walking the cards the 200 feet could be faster than waiting for them to download onto the laptop, depending on how much you are shooting. |
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Jim Pierce, Photographer
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Waltham | MA | USA | Posted: 8:20 PM on 04.14.10 |
->> Michael,
Thanks for the input, however I am trying to avoid the downlaod step/time of a card read. I would like to be able to take a picture with a Canon mark IV, II, IIN and have it sent to a computer 200' away or to a computer close by then via hardwire to a computer 200' away with no manual intervention.
The time to transfer is what i want to remove from the equation. There might be another person on the other end culling, editing and posting within minutes.
The laptop question has to do with a PC OS
Jim |
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Israel Shirk, Photographer, Assistant
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Boise | ID | US | Posted: 9:17 PM on 04.14.10 |
->> Usually what people do is use something like this: (I'm only familiar with Canon, but Nikon is supposed to be similar)
+Camera is attached to a WFT-E2A (for the 1d3/1d4's)
+You have a wireless router somewhere in the middle (or wired works too)
+The editor's computer and the WFT are set up on the same wireless base station so they have static IP addresses. If you don't set up static IP addresses, at least make it a long renewal time (ie 12-14 hours) so it won't reset while you're working, and any new addresses will be assigned in the middle of the night, not the next day while you're working.
+You then set up an FTP server on the editor's computer (other options depending on your WFT model, especially with the recent ones). Test the FTP server from another computer on the wireless first before using the WFT. You need to turn off firewalls in certain places and depending on your OS.
+Set up Photo Mechanic (or other) to check the uploads folder and ingest from there.
+Then set up your WFT to upload to the FTP server on the editor's computer. You can optionally set it to upload just JPEG, just RAW, or both.
It's easiest to set up an FTP server on a Mac... Here's a quick guide: http://tech.ifelix.net/3008.html. You might need to adapt the part about the IP addresses - in windows go to a command line and type "ipconfig /all"; in mac, go to your network preferences and look for something like "AirPort is connected to avalanche and has the IP address 192.168.1.13". Also, the username part is the same you use to log in to the computer. You can create another user in the user settings too, but you want the editor logged in as the same user so they can see the same files.
Here's a really old article on it:
http://www.sportsshooter.com/news/1356 |
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David Bailey, Photographer
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Chuck Liddy, Photographer
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Durham | NC | USA | Posted: 9:33 PM on 04.14.10 |
| ->> get with SS member george bridges. he is a genius at this...and our tethers were almost 1000 feet... |
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Israel Shirk, Photographer, Assistant
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Boise | ID | US | Posted: 10:31 PM on 04.14.10 |
| ->> Oh and the laptop vs desktop thing... The setup I made puts all the load on the server, so I can use dirt cheap desktop boxes with nicer LCD's. I usually get the CPU/etc used from the lowest possible bidder and if something breaks just pull it off the line and put in another. The nicer the screen is, the better the photos look. |
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Jon Eilts, Photographer
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College Station | TX | USA | Posted: 11:19 PM on 04.14.10 |
| ->> If you want to tether to your base station, you could always use something like this: http://tiny.cc/wykr5. This one will only work up to 150', but definitely could be one of your faster options with using a hard line downloading straight to the station. I have never used this, just something I have come across. |
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Israel Shirk, Photographer, Assistant
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Boise | ID | US | Posted: 11:38 PM on 04.14.10 |
->> The cable extenders don't support USB 2 :(
Well, there are some that do... But they tend to cost more than a WFT, which can send over ethernet or wireless |
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Jim Pierce, Photographer
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Waltham | MA | USA | Posted: 8:51 PM on 04.15.10 |
->> Thanks for the input on the teathered shooting I will be looking into this further!!
Any thoughts on the laptop viewing stations vs desktops?
Jim |
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Jim Pierce, Photographer
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Waltham | MA | USA | Posted: 6:10 PM on 04.19.10 |
->> Surprised I have not heard any comments/recomendations of using laptops vs desktops for viewing stations.
Have a few new events and am starting my research and figured no better place.
I am working on the teathered solution but would like to hear about the view station options.
Jim |
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