D800/D4 tether to ipad?

[2WheelPhoto]

Has anyone been able to tether to an ipad with the HDMI or USB out? If so what cable/adapter and what app do i need? I've googled and asked around to no avail.

****not looking for a "wireless" solution and all the drawbacks that go with them

thanks!

 

[sapper6fd]

By teather do you mean successfully control the camera from the iPad itself - or just upload the photos from the camera to the iPad?

I dont believe there are any apps out there to control camera bodiees from an iPad. I asked a similar question around a month ago - here is the thread.
http://www.thephotoforum.com/forum/general-shop-talk/302040-photography-ipads.html

I do know you can upload from your camera to an iPad and use it to preview photos - but as some have mentioned, its not a great device to edit photos on and is not colour calibrated / does not have the ability to calibrate the screens colour.

Cheers,

Sapper

 

[2WheelPhoto]

I just want it to simply display each pic as I shoot to me and my subject in the studio, such as tethering to Lightroom4 on a Mac.

Any help will be appreciated =)

 

[Light Guru]

Has anyone been able to tether to an ipad with the HDMI or USB out? If so what cable/adapter and what app do i need? I've googled and asked around to no avail.

****not looking for a "wireless" solution and all the drawbacks that go with them

thanks!

The iPad only has HDMI out no in so it will not be able to take a HDMI from your camera. As for USB it will let you import from the memory card that is in the camera, but most cameras dont let you continue to shoot while this is hapining.

Perhaps you could explain why you dont want a wireless solution. I have heard some good things about the eye-fi cards. As for me I use Canon and plan on getting the new 6D that has built in wifi. Canon is also releasing a iPhone and iPad app that will let you not only view but control the camera from the iPad.

 

[2WheelPhoto]

Has anyone been able to tether to an ipad with the HDMI or USB out? If so what cable/adapter and what app do i need? I've googled and asked around to no avail.

****not looking for a "wireless" solution and all the drawbacks that go with them

thanks!

The iPad only has HDMI out no in so it will not be able to take a HDMI from your camera. As for USB it will let you import from the memory card that is in the camera, but most cameras dont let you continue to shoot while this is hapining.

Perhaps you could explain why you dont want a wireless solution. I have heard some good things about the eye-fi cards. As for me I use Canon and plan on getting the new 6D that has built in wifi. Canon is also releasing a iPhone and iPad app that will let you not only view but control the camera from the iPad.

I used my D700 to tether to a TV monitor, and now USB my D800 to tether to the TV (or my Mac) with the HDMI out. Each time I take a pic it shows up on on the monitor SAME as the back of the cam. Model and I can see whats going on each shot, looking at the raw file.

Too much data for wireless/time etc. Even my HDMI slows down and hesitates (considering the file size of the D800)

We are working in the studio, not waiting for a pic to process on the screen each shot so I prefer no wireless =)

Let me ad I have no desire to control the camera from the device

 

[Light Guru]

Has anyone been able to tether to an ipad with the HDMI or USB out? If so what cable/adapter and what app do i need? I've googled and asked around to no avail.

****not looking for a "wireless" solution and all the drawbacks that go with them

thanks!

The iPad only has HDMI out no in so it will not be able to take a HDMI from your camera. As for USB it will let you import from the memory card that is in the camera, but most cameras dont let you continue to shoot while this is hapining.

Perhaps you could explain why you dont want a wireless solution. I have heard some good things about the eye-fi cards. As for me I use Canon and plan on getting the new 6D that has built in wifi. Canon is also releasing a iPhone and iPad app that will let you not only view but control the camera from the iPad.

I used my D700 to tether to a TV monitor, and now USB my D800 to tether to the TV (or my Mac) with the HDMI out. Each time I take a pic it shows up on on the monitor SAME as the back of the cam. Model and I can see whats going on each shot, looking at the raw file.

Too much data for wireless/time etc. Even my HDMI slows down and hesitates (considering the file size of the D800)

We are working in the studio, not waiting for a pic to process on the screen each shot so I prefer no wireless =)

Let me ad I have no desire to control the camera from the device

You will not be able to tether into the iPad like you did a TV monitor.

You could tether to a computer and then remote into that computer from the iPad.

If the camera has 2 card slots one CF and one SD. I'm not sure if you can do this on a Nikon but you can with a Canon, set the camera to write a raw to the CF and a small jpeg onto the SD and have a Eye-Fi card in the SD slot. The small jpegs will transfer much much faster.

Here is a video of how you do it on a Canon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3fJVI1i0a4&sns=em
He is using a medium jpeg and it only takes a couple of seconds. If you use a small jpeg it should go faster.

 

[Ballistics]

Have you looked into the eye fi card?

 

[jhodges10]

I've got a D800 as well and looked into the eye-FI cards but I don't think they have the speed to perform well considering the size of even the jpeg files. They typically in my experience have been about 11MB per pic. With my D60 they were only 3MB. Not to mention the eye-fi's I've seen are pretty small (8GB) and a D800 will fill that up very quickly. The limiting factor would probably be the write speed anyway, you'd constantly be buffering with the eye-fi.

 

[Light Guru]

I've got a D800 as well and looked into the eye-FI cards but I don't think they have the speed to perform well considering the size of even the jpeg files. They typically in my experience have been about 11MB per pic. With my D60 they were only 3MB. Not to mention the eye-fi's I've seen are pretty small (8GB) and a D800 will fill that up very quickly. The limiting factor would probably be the write speed anyway, you'd constantly be buffering with the eye-fi.

The camera should have the option set different jpeg sizes. If you tell the body to ONLY write a small jpeg to the eye-fi card and to write your RAW file onto the CF card you will have plenty of room for lots of images on the small size eye-fi cards and the transfer time for a small jpeg should be rather quick.

 

[DorkSterr]

There's an eye-fi card for the d4? What about the wt5?

 

[nmoody]

There's an eye-fi card for the d4?

No its an SD card that also has a wifi adaptor in it. You will need the Pro version for RAW files. I love my Eye-Fi card: WiFi SD Cards: Eye-Fi Memory Cards: Wireless Photo and Video Uploads from your Camera to your Computer & the Web | Eye-Fi

 

[2WheelPhoto]

Guys i don't even like waiting on the wire to the studio, as i asked is there a way to tether "without going wi-fi" so I can see my raw file in hi-rez on the ipad retina display?

 

[Light Guru]

Guys i don't even like waiting on the wire to the studio, as i asked is there a way to tether "without going wi-fi" so I can see my raw file in hi-rez on the ipad retina display?

And like I said no there is not. We have been giving you the BEST options available for sending images to the iPad.

If you don't even like waiting for the image to show up tethered via wire then why are you even wanting to tether at all.

If you cannot wait a second or two then perhaps you should worry about and work on that instead of trying to tether.

 

[2WheelPhoto]

Guys i don't even like waiting on the wire to the studio, as i asked is there a way to tether "without going wi-fi" so I can see my raw file in hi-rez on the ipad retina display?

And like I said no there is not. We have been giving you the BEST options available for sending images to the iPad.

If you don't even like waiting for the image to show up tethered via wire then why are you even wanting to tether at all.

If you cannot wait a second or two then perhaps you should worry about and work on that instead of trying to tether.

Well, I'd prefer not to wait that long but as I said its the best option I'm trying to get with an ipad instead of a TV studio monitor but wi-fi is out.

If this really isn't an option I may have to tether to a macbook pro laptop with lightroom 4 but I was hoping to use the smaller ipad. Thank you sir for the input =)

 

[Light Guru]

Guys i don't even like waiting on the wire to the studio, as i asked is there a way to tether "without going wi-fi" so I can see my raw file in hi-rez on the ipad retina display?

And like I said no there is not. We have been giving you the BEST options available for sending images to the iPad.

If you don't even like waiting for the image to show up tethered via wire then why are you even wanting to tether at all.

If you cannot wait a second or two then perhaps you should worry about and work on that instead of trying to tether.

Well, I'd prefer not to wait that long but as I said its the best option I'm trying to get with an ipad instead of a TV studio monitor but wi-fi is out.

If this really isn't an option I may have to tether to a macbook pro laptop with lightroom 4 but I was hoping to use the smaller ipad. Thank you sir for the input =)

Yes your going to have to tether to a laptop, if you want something smaller then get a MacBook Air.