Luminous Landscape Forum
Equipment & Techniques => Computers & Peripherals => Topic started by: Greg Haag on December 07, 2014, 08:21:45 pm
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Is anyone shooting with Hasselblad H4D tethered w MacBook Air? If so, are you pleased and could you tell me where you got your cable please.
Thanks in advance!
Greg
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I am not sure about the question. You need a Firewire cable (9 pin to 9 pin presumably) and a Thunderbolt to Firewire adapter. I have H3D to iMac but it should be the same.
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I am not sure about the question. You need a Firewire cable (9 pin to 9 pin presumably) and a Thunderbolt to Firewire adapter. I have H3D to iMac but it should be the same.
Bob,
Thanks for responding! Really 2 questions, First, if this setup with Firewire & Thunderbolt to Firewire is what I need and Second, if anyone is using this with the Macbook Air how its working for them. I did order the adaptor today, so hopefully it will work!
Thanks again,
Greg
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In case this will answer someones question in the future. I did order a Thunderbolt to Firewire adapter to see if I could shoot tethered with my MacBook Air and Hasselblad H4D-40, just went thru my first shoot today and it work flawlessly!
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One thing I tried which didn't work so great was to have a portable firewire drive daisy chained into the link. It worked sometimes but then locked up. I had to end using a portable USB drive for the storage.
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Before I switched to Phase I shot almost exclusively tethered to my macbook pro with an H4D40 -
I used to have a ton of problems, lockups, corrupt images, etc. It was my cable. I ended up buying the Tether Tools FW cable, kept it under 15ft and it was rock solid from the day I did that.