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.

  • KingRandomGuy@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    I’d also recommend seeing how the USB protocol for your camera works. On mine (Sony A7R III) there are some relatively impactful limitations. One is that you seemingly can’t shoot a burst directly over USB, but you can work around this with a shutter release cable. The other is that you can’t change shutter speeds and ISOs super quickly, you can only increment/decrement them. The latter issue is fixed on newer models though.