Tethering laptop

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I'm leaning more and more towards shooting tethered so I wondered what sort of spec laptop/macbook would I need.

Also is Lightroom good/reliable enough or is there something better?

I'm not a fan of windows machines so my preference will be towards the macbook but I don't want to rule out a windows machine just because of my lack of faith in them.

Please don't turn this into to a mac vs windows argument, I'm just asking for advice on spec.

Ta very much :)
 
Hi

The issue I have with LR and tethered shooting is that the pics only get saved to the PC and not SD card.

If you are happy with this then either Mac or laptop will do, otherwise you much have to decide on a software and then decide on if you want Mac or windows.

There was a thread created by Simon about a software he has used which saves to both HD and sd. On the app so cannot find it sorry.
 
sep9001 said:
The issue I have with LR and tethered shooting is that the pics only get saved to the PC and not SD card.
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If you shoot Canon then the images are saved to both CF/SD card and laptop HD (other camera makes will undoubtedly also do this, I just know that Nikon doesn't and Canon does).

For the few times I've shot tethered - my old faithful 2010 13" el cheapo MacBook Pro worked fine with Lightroom and 5Dmk3 RAW files. I noticed little or no speed advantage when I recently used my newer 2015 MBP; possibly because the camera only utilises USB2 (I could be completely wrong on that assumption).

Also, I use a really cheap 5m active USB extension cable (around £5). If I shot tethered more frequently I'd probably invest in a much more expensive TetherTools version in the hope that it is better quality, but also because it's orange which is a really good idea to avoid tripping etc. (gaffer taping the cable to the floor is still a good consideration if there's any walking space between laptop and camera). Oops, I'm digressing from the original question.

IME people who tether regularly tend to recommend using Capture One for the task. I have no experience of CO, but LR worked trouble free for me.
 
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Capture One is fantastic for tethered work. If you want things saved immediately to two places you could run a script but I generally back up as I go, to two separate drives using Chronosync.
 
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