I am looking at a project that will require rather fast transfer of the shots I get.

I will be outside in the nature at different locations and my Android phone is my only connection to the storage target over 4G/5G/LTE.

From what I can tell there are a number of options:

  • Shooting with a FTP tether over the phone WiFi to upload to the destination
  • Shooting with a USB tether to…? My phone? A computer?
  • Using wireless tether addons for greater transfer speeds, but also that will be to a computer I guess…?

Have anyone of you done this before with good transfer speeds?

I’ve seen videos where people mention RAW transfer times of 10-20 seconds. That will create a huge queue of photos for me to upload.

Is wired USB tether to a computer with a good internet connection the only way to achieve this?

I am OK with shooting compressed RAW to keep file sizes down, but the transfer speeds still have to be fast for this to be reliable.

All in all I just want it to be fast and reliable with as little hardware as possible.

I understand this post is more or less just a brain dump. I appreciate any pointers or suggestions.

I have never really shot tethered before, so this is jumping into the deep end of the pool directly.

Thanks.

Edit: I am looking at getting an Sony a7iii for this, but want the solution to work for as many different camera models as possible.

  • FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Oh I see- sounds very interesting!

    I guess your chief issue is having a device sync the photo folder on your camera with an FTP server? To be honest any file sync software would handle that. Here’s a free open source one: https://itsfoss.com/freefilesync/. But there are many others. I guess you’d want a lightweight laptop with long battery life, the camera connected with it’s folder as the source and the software configured with credentials for the FTP destination folder. You could perhaps look into 4/5G boosting antenna that could connect to laptop via USB. You’d have to keep camera physically connected to get best transfer speed (rather than rely on Bluetooth or anything like that). But sounds like that’s what you’re already figuring.

    There may well be specialist photography gear that does this for $$$ if you want to spend them, but purely from a technical point of view this is quite easily and cheaply done.