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#1 2010-08-16 20:46:34

Eyezac
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Anyone else notice tethered shooting adds time to shot?

I thought it was odd, and maybe even something that only affects me - but I noticed that if I use PW with the EOS Utility that it adds 2 seconds to each shot. I love the instant transfer to hard drive, but 2 seconds is a lot when shooting 1000's of images.
Any thoughts on this?

Any ways to reduce or eliminate the extra time?

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#2 2010-08-16 21:04:18

klausesser
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Re: Anyone else notice tethered shooting adds time to shot?

Eyezac wrote:

I noticed that if I use PW with the EOS Utility that it adds 2 seconds to each shot.
Any ways to reduce or eliminate the extra time?

Did you check the time-value in PW which tells the head to wait before the next move? By default it´s set to 1 second i believe. So even if you shoot @1/500 sec the head nevertheless waits a full second before moving on to the next position and trigger the EOS Utility.

best, Klaus


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#3 2010-08-16 23:01:05

Eyezac
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Re: Anyone else notice tethered shooting adds time to shot?

Cheers Klaus, I'll have a look at that. I did notice a lag after the shot was taken before it would move, and that might just be the issue!

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#4 2010-08-16 23:08:41

jeongyun
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Re: Anyone else notice tethered shooting adds time to shot?

When you do tethered shooting, the image has to be completely written to the memory card then it's transferred to the computer. I think that's where this extra 2 seconds come from.

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#5 2010-08-17 00:28:23

Eyezac
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Re: Anyone else notice tethered shooting adds time to shot?

Are you sure Jeongyun? As soon as the shutter fires, it shows the transfer beginning and I would say this whole process takes less than 2 seconds. On top of that, the writing to hard drive is a separate function from Papywizard, so why would it care what EOS utility is doing?
But maybe my thoughts on how this process works is not correct.

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