Tethered Shooting

[leightonjames]

Hi everyone,

I have a model shoot soon and I have a question, this may seem very basic to some but I have seen numerous videos in the past of professionals; Picture is taken, Beep is heard, Image on screen, Ready to edit. Is this due to video editing or is there software that can be used? I do have Canons tethered shooting, but it seems, well basic?

Many Thanks!

Leighton

ETA - This is related to digital SLR and not digital backs =]

Edited by leightonjames on Wednesday 19th August 22:11

[RobDickinson]

WHat do you shoot?

Canon utils provide tethered shooting software for all their dSLR's , assume nikon has the same..?

[andy-xr]

They do. So the noise is usually from the flash to let you know it's fired. If you tether to a laptop (or shoot wirelessly) depending on format it can take a while to be displayed. It's also really offputting, you'll spend more time chimping than shooting

[Simpo Two]

I don't a great deal of studio work, but if I did, I'd investigate wireless shooting - no cables to trip over.

[leightonjames]

andy-xr said:

They do. So the noise is usually from the flash to let you know it's fired. If you tether to a laptop (or shoot wirelessly) depending on format it can take a while to be displayed. It's also really offputting, you'll spend more time chimping than shooting

Ah I see Cheers!

[DIW35]

The beep from a studio flash is not to tell you that it has fired, but that it has recharged and is ready to fire again.

[S. Gonzales Esq.]

Depending on what model camera you have, Capture One is a great piece of software.

I find shooting tethered with a model (if you know what I mean) is useful because you can see everything much more clearly.

Just don't have the screen where the model can see it - you'll never get their attention away from it.

[andy-xr]

DIW35 said:

The beep from a studio flash is not to tell you that it has fired, but that it has recharged and is ready to fire again.

I never knew that. On my Interfits I get the beep before the recharge green light on the head, but what you're saying makes more sense

[Simpo Two]

andy-xr said:

DIW35 said:

The beep from a studio flash is not to tell you that it has fired, but that it has recharged and is ready to fire again.

I never knew that. On my Interfits I get the beep before the recharge green light on the head, but what you're saying makes more sense

A good way to tell that the flash has gone off is that there's a big flash

I have the beep turned off on mine because they recharge so fast it's not an issue.