Karl:
Why not indeed? Because of the weather here this time of year (US Gulf
Coast-hurricane season), I bit the bullet and added a laptop so I wouldn't
have to go search for a library in a strange town for email access. Not only
have they come down in price, but this one has twice the memory of my
desktop (4 times before I doubled the memory on the older one) and is, of
course, WiFi capable. The network light came on while I was setting it up
which means I could have connected right then and there.
Wow! And to think I had to move my satellite radio into my car because I
couldn't get reception indoors for all the metal around. Ain't technology
grand?
Cheers,
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "karl shah-jenner" <shahjen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students"
<photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 8:23 PM
Subject: Re: wireless camera conectivity is here
Roger Eichhorn:
Sounds like a rapidly developing field that we shouldn't jump into
until it settles down. Bluetooth is now widely available. Will
wireless USB be significantly faster?
are their bluetooth enabled cameras already, and can one tether their camera
using bluetooth?
if not, I can see everyone 'upgrading' their cameras again in a few months
when manufacturers start introducing such beasts and claiming speed
improvements over all those 'old' systems cobbling tethered 1DS's with
wireless USB to the PC and doing on-the-fly downloads to their laptops.
out with the old, in with the new ;)
In answer to the question, no. Wireless is faster than bluetooth is faster
than wireless usb.
Criticism aside, current camera connectivity is largely limited to USB.
Here comes a technology that'll allow folks to tether their cameras to their
backup/preview devices. Why not use it?
regarding the technology -
before bluetooth their was 'wireless'.
before USB there was serial.
before SATA there was PATA.
All are still around because they work.
I have a three colour pulsed xenon A3 film and flatbed scanner. It's only
connectivity is SCSI. It is only usable with REALLY wide SCSI. It only
talks to windows NT/Win95/98. There have been NO 3 colour scanners of this
calibre produced since these were manufactured in '98 - almost ten years and
nothing. The pinnacle of technology is 9 years old.. NASA uses them,
National Geographic uses them. So I have an old PC purely dedicated to
driving that scanner :)
common, fast, faster, iPiffle®, new
not impressed.
I am however impressed that this new technology will allow me to interface
some existing stuff I have. Nice to be able to pop the printer in a
different room and connect to it wirelessly rather than having to wait for
the Bluetooth model to come out, tossing out my perfectly good printer and
'upgrading' to something newer. Impressed that I'll be able to tether my
current cameras and my external 'safe storage' backup hard drive can now
remain permanently in a safe location and be tethered without any handling -
all good news :)
k
