Possible to connect 1Dx direct to laptop without needing a router/switch?

[JimKarczewski]

So I was able to connect my 1Dx to my laptop via a wireless router with a built in switch. However, when I tried plugging the camera directly into the laptop, setting the laptop to 192.168.1.2 and the camera to 192.168.1.3 the WFT Pairing Software was never able to locate the camera. I'm guessing that I need to go get a crossover cable, like you would to connect 2 computers directly???

My thought is I could keep my laptop in my laptop bag while shooting and have the images downloaded to the laptop (and remain on the cards) which would lessen my time after shooting a game and trying to beat insane deadlines. The 5-10 minutes downloaded would be eliminated and I'd be very happy to gain the extra time!

Thoughts?

I guess if anything, it won't kill me to go hunt down a crossover cable and try it out. I know most computers now are auto-sensing and should switch if it determines the lines need to be crossed but either my laptop and or the 1Dx doesn't seem to know how to do this...


Thanks

Jim

 

[AmbientLight]

You will definitely need a crossover cable. Be careful though with operating system security settings, so that it will not block communications.

 

[kaihp]

1Gbit Ethernet don't need cross-over cables.
But you have to setup things with static IP/DNS.

 

[JimKarczewski]

I did set static IPs, yet didn't find each other. Should be no need for DNS on camera to computer directly...

 

[jointdoc]

I don't know if this is relavent but this was on the Martin Bailey Podcast.

"Another nice addition is the Gigabit Ethernet port for tethered shooting. BUT, and this is a big BUT, Canon decided that the Mac OS was not important enough to update the EOS Utility to support Wired shooting just yet. You can pair the camera with the computer, that part works fine, but EOS Utility doesn’t work. What’s even more frustrating is that all through the Canon documentation, it states that you can use EOS Utility to shoot with the Ethernet connection without any restrictions!

I spent a whole morning trying to get this working, and when I eventually gave in and called support, I was told it was not yet supported. When I asked to see where that was stated publicly, I was lead to a Web page hidden about 5 layers down on the Japan Web site. You’d never find it until you run into a problem, especially when the documentation already told you everything was going to be just fine. Oh, and I couldn’t find a mention of this anywhere on the US Canon Web site.

I figured I’d try connect to the camera with the WFT Server which is purported to have a pseudo EOS Utility that works via a Web browser, but with a tiny LiveView window, no auto-focus and no automatic downloading of images, it’s a total waste of time.

Canon, I love you guys, you know that, but stop wasting your time developing crappy applications like the WFT Server on the camera, and dare I say it, DPP and ImageBrowser could go too, and just concentrate on supporting the drivers and critical utilities that your customers need to use your cameras! The Mac OS is important to the photography community. It always has been, so get your acts together!"

 

[samthefish]

The Gig-E specification has a feature called Auto-MDIX which detects your cable and configures it to connect to either a router or straight-through, so if it adheres to the specification no crossover cable is needed. I'm a networking engineer in my real life and use Gig-E in this configuration all the time.

If you loan me you 1Dx for several months I should be able to test it out

 

[Studio1930]

I have connected my 1DX to my laptop with a straight through cable and transferred images without a problem (once I figured out the crappy canon software and configured a static IP). No hub/switch required.

 

[rpt]

I had connected two of my computers with a crossover cable and no router. That was about 8 years back. If you have connected, try to PING 192.168.1.3 from your computer...

Does the cable work if you connect some other computer to your laptop?

These days 4 and 8 port switches are small. You can easily lug one. They are not expensive either...

Edit: is your wireless on? If so, is there an IP conflict with another 1.3? Turn wireless off...