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jrista said:
no snark intended: Are you certain that you can control throttling on the SP3 via changes in the power plan?
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Tethered Shooting with 5D III & Microsoft Pro 3
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no snark intended: Are you certain that you can control throttling on the SP3 via changes in the power plan?
josephandrews222 said:
It's a Microsoft device running a Microsoft operating system. If you could NOT, I would be extremely surprised. Microsoft knows how their own stuff works, if they botched that, then they deserve to lose sales. Every other device, both Microsoft or third party, that I have that runs Windows, supports power plans in exactly that way. This isn't some new feature...it's been around for years...since Vista at least (and in some form in XP before that.) I'd find it highly unusual if the SP3 did not.
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tolusina said:
I was wondering what Canon version you were using, Canon utilities is pretty comprehensive. I also use Breeze DSLR Pro for remote. Lightroom tethering is not really worth the bother.
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EOS Utility Version 2.12.2.1, it's what was in the box with my 6D.Mt Spokane Photography said:
Seriously, if one has an Android device with USB host support (which includes most current models) and a somewhat recent Canon, the DSLR Controller app is only USD $8.00, a USB host cable adapter/dongle/thingy can be had for USD $3.00 to USD $20.00, it's very inexpensive to try.
Plus, once a USB host adapter is in hand, a plethora of USB devices become plug and play on your Android, things like thumb drives, card readers, external drives, keyboards, mice, mostly whatever.
The DSLR Controller web site lists compatible cameras, their list of compatible Androids is woefully incomplete and somewhat wrong. I have it running on four devices, only one of them is listed.
Support is rather lame, it mostly consists of a single thread of hundreds of pages at xda. I've had no need of the xda thread though, what few answers I needed were all on the app's main web site.
I find a USB host adapter so handy, one stays in my phone's case. When I'm out and about with the camera, my camera accessory belt pouch carries the standard USB cable, phone is always available if I need to tether. If I've planned ahead to tether for a specific shot or if I'm tethering in a studio environment, I tether to tablet.
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I looked briefly at the Breeze site, it's Windows only so not as portable as an Android solution, it's got some license restrictions, it's pricier than Android solutions, I'll pass on that one.
I do thank you for the lead though, it's always good to know more of what all is out there and available. Multi camera support looks real trick indeed but way beyond my current needs and wants.
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tolusina said:
Being more portable is certainly a advantage for some cases. I mostly tether in my studio, but I do have a Manfrotto clamp on tray that I place my Lenovo laptop on to run Focal. Its not ideal.
It would work with a tablet as well, its almost infinitely adjustable. That Lenovo Laptop has a horrible screen, no matter how I calibrate it, its inadequate for most anything. I spent most of a day looking at new laptops, including all the ones here. In the end, I gave up, none of them would work for me, but the ones mentioned are much much better than my old X200s.
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I did the same searching for an optimal laptop, gave up, built a no compromise desktop instead.Mt Spokane Photography said:
I forgo editing until I'm back at my desktop.
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Yes indeed, DSLR Controller does that very well. You can choose 5x or 10x magnification same as on camera but on a much larger screen.sanjosedave said:
Additionally, for macro use DSLR Controller can automate focus stepping to build your stacked shots for focus stacking on your editing machine.
Here's a stack captured using DSLR Controller, can't miss focus breathing in action......
And the final, assembled stack.......
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jrista said:
Can't be done with Surface Pro 3, two reasons:
1. Microsoft took traditional power plans out of Surface Pro 3. To get high performance back, you must enable Hyper-V which is incompatible with connected standby. Some have also reported the SP3 goes into thermal shutdown when this is attempted.
2. Even if you did step 1, it still throttles aggressively. Both in Windows and in Linux. It is in the firmware.
IMO Surface Pro 2 is a more reliable machine due to the throttling issues with SP3. Personally I don't believe the SP3 cooling design is adequate for Haswell.
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I found this thread with interest as I am considering the Surface Pro 3 after being epicly disappointed with the painfully slow transfers from Eye-Fi to iPad (JPEG set to Medium on 5D Mark III). Having used USB tethering to the laptop for years, love the transfer speed and near-immediate display of large JPEG images shot after shot.
I played with the trial copy of DSLR Remote PRO by BreezeSys on the laptop and I liked it very much. Curious if the "throttling" problem reported here also applied to other programs, I contacted the author Chris Breeze and he had this to say,
I played with the trial copy of DSLR Remote PRO by BreezeSys on the laptop and I liked it very much. Curious if the "throttling" problem reported here also applied to other programs, I contacted the author Chris Breeze and he had this to say,
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tolusina said:
I'm surprised that you have a issue with the Canon Utilities tethering interface for the surface pro 3. I find it to be excellent, it controls every function of the shot. It is not the limited tablet interface for Android or IOS, but has full blown control.
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