tether the 1dsmk3 on a mac

[geesbert]

i am trying to get the canon software to run in parallels to increase tethering speed, but EOS utility can't find my camera. do i have to install the camera drivers seperately? i got the latest software from the canon site.

stefan

[ruraltrekker]

You do need to install the camera driver from the disk (or download in you case?). Plugging the camera in DOES NOT trigger an action of installation of the camera driver.

[geesbert]

i installed everything before i pluged in the camera. i enabled USB recognition in parallels, though it seems it only gives me a usb 1.1 connection. weird...

[Rick_Allen]

To get the speed boost from using the Windows Usb Driver you need to use BootCamp. Using parallels will not give you a speed bump. The reason is simply that parallels is interpreting the data from the MacDriver into the windows driver.

[geesbert]

oh, that's a shame...would have been beautiful.

[pss]

gotta love forums....i just installed parallells and was just about to install windows.....only to shoot tethered with the dsIII.....so i can save myself some time....and the horror of actually running windows....

bootcamp won't do it for me since i would have to restart to run mac apps.....

i guess i will have to wait for a new mac driver.....

i still can't believe this is even an issue....

are HDs connected via USB also slower on a mac compared to pc?

how about shooting with the wft-e2 (which has a usb connection for HDs) and connecting that same HD to a mac..... shouldn"t that bypass the usb camera driver (which seems to be the bottleneck)?

[Rick_Allen]

I'm not that familiar with the WTF ;-) I had the one for the Mark 11 and after the second time I tried it on a shoot through it in the bin (sold it on ebay). I guess if you can use the Wft to save images direct to a HDD then I guess you might use a raid drive and connect the Fw800 port to Mac and run at native speeds

[pss]

i guess unlike parallells, VMware uses it's own drivers so it will speed things up....they have a free demo....

[Esben]

I'm not that familiar with the WTF ;-) I had the one for the Mark 11 and after the second time I tried it on a shoot through it in the bin (sold it on ebay). I guess if you can use the Wft to save images direct to a HDD then I guess you might use a raid drive and connect the Fw800 port to Mac and run at native speeds
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I don't know if its possible to connect a computer and the canon to the same (regular) HD at the same time, and read and/or write to it simultaneously. In order to do so, you might need a HD with an other protocol e.i. a NAS or another kind of network system.

best,
Esben

[Rick_Allen]

Yeah I'm not sure I dont have the wft to try it. It maybe that it is using the usb with a nas-type protocol, in much the same way that you can use FW as a network interface.

Any kind of virtualisation software that you can use to install Xp will not gain the speed factor that using BootCamp gains.

[pss]

ok..had to bite the bullet....installed VMware and XP....

solved the problem beautifully....i shoot to a shared folder the previews pop up in aperture much faster and the best thing is the buffer problem is gone....

this really is a joke of course....i am running 2 operating systems (along with all other apps) and the usb seems 2x faster and does not have the buffer issue.....so with a new driver for osX (and without the extra OS!) this should be even faster....

i am not sure how anyone can get anything done on XP, the simplest tasks just take a lot of digging....but i don't want to flame, i am sure someone going into osX 10.5 might feel a little lost as well sometime.....

not planning on using XP for anything other then tethered shooting, can somebody tell me how to get rid of all the STUFF that comes with XP?

[geesbert]

i tried that too, fusion is much faster than running eos utility im macOS. but is it possible to auto import it into MAC's lightroom? where do i find the folder of my fusion drive where i shot the images to?  i can't set a mac folder for tether destination.


stefan

[free1000]

This is one of the main reasons why I sent my 1DsIII back and decided to keep my 1DsII, fast firewire when tethering is a doddle with the 1DsII and a Mac.

Bootcamp is the only solution to getting good speed with USB and the 1DsIII.  But its shag and hassle.

[Rick_Allen]

Free1000 I had exactly the same thoughts when the mark111 came out but then i saw how good it was at 400iso, then I went about finding a better way of using it.

[pss]

i had the dsII and never liked the files...the dsIII is in a different league imo and totally worth the tether hassle...

tethering with VMware/XP is much faster then mac os....and most importantly the buffer is much much better.....previews pop up within 2-3 sec and the buffer is much more like the camera buffer

i am using the VMware 2.0 (RC beta) version which has a shared folder with mac os (in my case my user folder) so i can make a new folder on my mac desktop from the eos utility (running in xp)  and make that folder a hotfolder for (in my case) aperture....just like from the mac....VMware actually has a "unity" function which gets rid of XP/windos completely....the eos utility just has a little blue frame around it...i can even put it in the dock....it works just like a mac app.....

[jamesm]

I have been digging through this issue for ages.

I have used the following configurations using lightroom and macbook pro

mac osx alone (8-9sec)

Mac osx and fusion (4-5secs)

Boot camp (1 sec)

Boot camp with XP and eos utility is insanely fast you woul dhave to be shooting pretty fast to hit the buffer. I went and bought a new 500Gb hard drive, made a 100GB partition and then use mac drive to put the images on the mac side.