MarkIII tethered speed

[BobSmith]

I get a little less than three seconds shooting a 5D raw file into a 2.4 GHZ MacBook with 4GB RAM. That's using EOS Utility shooting into Bridge with file being written to a network drive over gigabit ethernet. The same setup with a 1.6GHZ G4 Powerbook was about 4 seconds. I have and still use a dual 1.8 G5 for editing. I don't use it for tethered shooting but I would expect it to fall between those two Powerbooks in terms of speed. On other tasks the G5 is considerably faster than the G4 Powerbook.

USB (if that's what you're using... MKIII is firewire maybe?) is picky about other things on the same bus. If you have some other USB device on the computer it might be slowing down the camera's performance. When I'm shooting tethered, the only other USB device on the computer is a keyboard/mouse.

Bob Smith

[BobSmith]

All of the USB ports on any G5 should be USB2

Bob Smith

[Warren Roos]

Bob,

Well, it's got to be my hardware. Not sure if it's ram or the 1.8 duals. This one is beyond me but the waiting is too long.

-w

[Warren Roos]

Just did a people shoot with the new camera. Shooting tethered DOES NOT work because my system is too slow.