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I am looking for a bit of advice .... I am a sports photographer and currently transferring my images from sd card onto my laptop.

However I wondered if anyone had any feedback on wireless tethering, from camera to computer (windows not mac) .

Id like to be able to do this while I'm at the side of the park shooting, so I'm just ingesting straight to photomechanic.

So ..... I'm open to suggestions' and advice ......
 
Canon or Nikon?
 
No problem :) 7Dm2 doesn’t have its own WiFi? So you need a WiFi adapter first of all, after that specific solutions probably depend on the WiFi adaptor you are using. I have the 5dmiv which has WiFi built in and this allows for ftp mentioned above or remote connection via The EOS utility to grab images. Transfer can be direct to camera or over a WiFi network could be good at a large venue.
 
sports1 said:
I am looking for a bit of advice .... I am a sports photographer and currently transferring my images from sd card onto my laptop.

However I wondered if anyone had any feedback on wireless tethering, from camera to computer (windows not mac) .

Id like to be able to do this while I'm at the side of the park shooting, so I'm just ingesting straight to photomechanic.

So ..... I'm open to suggestions' and advice ......
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You need a wifi adapter and they costs hundreds of pounds.. presumably you hav-e two cameras of your shooting field sports so double that price...

Why do you think you need wireless?
 
KIPAX said:
You need a wifi adapter and they costs hundreds of pounds.. presumably you hav-e two cameras of your shooting field sports so double that price...

Why do you think you need wireless?
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Yea I have 3 usually out in the field 2 on me and one behind the goal. my previous cameras both had the wifi capability and now that I have upgraded I have the wifi cards supplied with the camera. I don't feel I need to have it. I just thought it might be an advantage to have them uploading to the computer as I take my images than at half time allow me to ftp to the company I upload for. I thought maybe it might just cut a little time off the process. Its just a process I see so many photographers use and I thought it might be an option ? or is sticking with the tried and tested memory cards the best way to operate?
 
sports1 said:
Yea I have 3 usually out in the field 2 on me and one behind the goal. my previous cameras both had the wifi capability and now that I have upgraded I have the wifi cards supplied with the camera. I don't feel I need to have it. I just thought it might be an advantage to have them uploading to the computer as I take my images than at half time allow me to ftp to the company I upload for. I thought maybe it might just cut a little time off the process. Its just a process I see so many photographers use and I thought it might be an option ? or is sticking with the tried and tested memory cards the best way to operate?
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You would have to tether all the pics you take to the latptop then go through them to choose the ones you want?

using lock and load with cards and photmechanic is faster IMHO
 
newbie1 said:
No problem :) 7Dm2 doesn’t have its own WiFi? So you need a WiFi adapter first of all, after that specific solutions probably depend on the WiFi adaptor you are using. I have the 5dmiv which has WiFi built in and this allows for ftp mentioned above or remote connection via The EOS utility to grab images. Transfer can be direct to camera or over a WiFi network could be good at a large venue.
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I've just upgraded to the 7dmkii so I have the we-1 cards to allow for the wifi. I've never really tried the wireless transfer even though my last cameras had that capability. its a large amount of images transferring I'm just wondering if potentially it would be too much for the eos utlity to process ? as I said I've not really tried it, I have always used the memory cards and simply transferred at half time to my computer so thought it might be an option to look at. :)
 
sports1 said:
I have always used the memory cards and simply transferred at half time to my computer so thought it might be an option to look at. :)
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Your not transfering everyhtign are you? Lock and Load ? :)
 
DemiLion said:
Why are you waiting until half time to file the images? That's too late.
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Night matches you have to be on the wire all the time and when a goal scored then its a race...

Daytime matches the jury is still out but I err on the send now side and as soon as a goal is scored..

I guess if your there for league/nl paper or a local paper then no rush.. but if your trying to get somethign in a national then sooner the better

I do think lock and load is the fastest method..
 
KIPAX said:
I do think lock and load is the fastest method..
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Yeah but no but..... :D

The fastest method by far is wiring direct from the camera but you need a backend staff working on the images to make that possible usually.

Second is probably what's being suggested above but combined with your concept: ie you lock or select the images that you want which are then wirelessly transferred to the laptop for captioning and cropping. :)
 
DemiLion said:
Second is probably what's being suggested above but combined with your concept: ie you lock or select the images that you want which are then wirelessly transferred to the laptop for captioning and cropping. :)
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Nice thought but expensive on 1dx systems x2 and to be hone st.. lock and load.. its pretty quick... I know speed counts and sometimes ity a race... but i seem to do ok and sit there looking smug while others still have nose in laptop.. probably sending more than I do.. just goal and a couple of cele for me when it happens
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I think a lot working for agencies are given figures.. x amount of action, x amount of manager and fans , x amount of ground and pre match and all by x time I ahve the luxury of sending what i want when i want :)
 
Not that pricey if you shop around. I've managed to pick up a WFT-E6 for about £160 used.

But then again I'm a jammy git that managed to find a 1Dx for sub £1,500! :)
 
Best I could do for the wft-e8 was a bit more than double that. Having tried it out I do think biggest benefit is when working with an editor receiving the files to select, crop and caption. Pretty marginal otherwise vs lock and load I think.
 
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