I am looking at a project that will require rather fast transfer of the shots I get.
I will be outside in the nature at different locations and my Android phone is my only connection to the storage target over 4G/5G/LTE.
From what I can tell there are a number of options:
- Shooting with a FTP tether over the phone WiFi to upload to the destination
- Shooting with a USB tether to…? My phone? A computer?
- Using wireless tether addons for greater transfer speeds, but also that will be to a computer I guess…?
Have anyone of you done this before with good transfer speeds?
I’ve seen videos where people mention RAW transfer times of 10-20 seconds. That will create a huge queue of photos for me to upload.
Is wired USB tether to a computer with a good internet connection the only way to achieve this?
I am OK with shooting compressed RAW to keep file sizes down, but the transfer speeds still have to be fast for this to be reliable.
All in all I just want it to be fast and reliable with as little hardware as possible.
I understand this post is more or less just a brain dump. I appreciate any pointers or suggestions.
I have never really shot tethered before, so this is jumping into the deep end of the pool directly.
Thanks.
Edit: I am looking at getting an Sony a7iii for this, but want the solution to work for as many different camera models as possible.
If you have Android phone then you can run Linux distro with chroot or Termux. ChatGPT is pretty good at writing bash scripts.