2nd Gen Wireless Tethering: how we made wireless a choice, not a fallback
Shooting without a cable has been possible in Capture One for years. What was missing was speed, and with it, the confidence to use wireless when the shoot depends on it. Wireless was the option you took when a cable wasn’t practical, not one you chose on merit. 2nd Gen Wireless Tethering was built to change that. Here’s how it works, why it works the way it does, and how to get the best results. The problem It’s tempting to treat slow wireless tethering as a software problem. The obvious responses are to optimize the transfer, tune the protocol, cut overhead. Those things help at the margins, but they don’t change the basic situation: the file still must cross the air. A full-resolution RAW file is tens of megabytes. A wireless connection on set rarely performs as well as its specification suggests. Other devices compete for the same network, other networks sit nearby, and the camera is writing to its own memory card at the same time. Moving a file that size across a connection …
