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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.

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[-] NeatoBuilds@mander.xyz 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I think if you can find a way to tether the camera to save copy's of the photos to your phone

then using a sync program to upload like nextcloud or syncthing if that's still around the folder to wherever you want independently.

The last time I tried transferring files from my Sony to android it gave me like preview images instead of the raw picture. You would have to just keep testing multiple ways to see what works I guess.

I used to live stream from my camera live view to parasite or YouTube using a USB cable to my phone on the hotshoe with a combination of a camera control app and a game streaming app

[-] TurtleTourParty@midwest.social 1 points 4 days ago

I haven't done anything like this, but I wouldn't try to directly send to anything over the internet, if you have Amy issues will connection speed it will create a large backup. Your fastest and lightest would be to transfer via USB to a phone and then have the phone upload, by I think this requires special apps that may not be very fast.

Wireless usually has too big of a delay. Capture one and Cascable can supposedly do wired to iOS devices, but I haven't tried it. Bringing a computer will probably be the best option unfortunately. You go get a gpd mini laptop for portability.

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