Big disappointment, Olympus Capture and E-M10

OI Share, with some additional hacks?

 

Olympus Capture tethering is only available for the high tier E-M1 and E-M5 Mk2... I would say use O.I.Share to control camera, and use a Wi-Fi SD card to transfer files maybe?

 

If you know someone who can program just a little he/you can write a small script to do this:

https://www.mu-43.com/threads/64821/

Or even using a "website mirror" program like this: https://www.httrack.com/

Both works only when wi-fi on the camera is active so you can do this "live tethering" only while shooting through OI Share. I mean, you can download the pictures even when OI Share is not running, but when wifi starts you can shoot only through OI share.

In the wi-fi options of the camera you need to enable "multiple connections" (otherwise OI share will steal the only one available).

 

there is a software around that I tried with my EM10. It is written by a German guy (my memory is fading on that though).
I have it on an old laptop that I can have access to within a week, if you can't find the software.

I was able to trigger my camera over the computer and see the picture on the computer. I am not sure, if it was anything close to fast.

 

This is the German thread:
http://www.oly-forum.com/forum/kameras-objektive/wifiwlan-und-e-m1

This is the guy's webpage:
https://rebs.biz/cc/

Somehow the webpage isnt working for me..
They say tethered speeds are low. 1 raw file in 30sec, 12jpegs in 50sec.

 

Ol.share and save your photos up to Flickr, or iCloud, or OneDrive etc...and access them from your PC

 

I think Eye-Fi (and similar) cards can do what you want.

I read a few years ago about a fashion or art-gallery show which took photos of models and the audience via Eye-Fi enabled cameras, sent them to a file-share; then the computer, where they were presumably curated/filtered, projected the images onto walls & screens in a good approximation of real-time.

You could either remote trigger the camera(s) or just leave it to the photographer.

Of course I may have completely mis-interpreted the use case, in which case feel free to ignore me.

 

I would also suggest an Eye-Fi card. I use it to automatically transfer to my Mac or to my iPad so it can get automatically edited and uploaded. Even better when you use an iPhone to trigger via OI Share which means that you can operate the camera via iPhone and have the photos sent directly and automatically to a computer or ipad. I would suggest only transferring the JPG however since transferring RAWs via Eye-Fi is painfully slow.

 

It does seem like the page is now taken down. That's a shame because his program was said to work quite well.

 

I see some potential in this. Wouldn't tethering be a possibility? Maybe a more elaborate interface than the "OLY Wifi Download", which I probably find a bit too unpolished to be useful. Should be interesting to see where this leads, though.

 

It's back online, with the authorization from the original owner on a German webpage:
http://oly-e.de/download/tools.php4

 

Tethering (remote capture) is working!

Here my E-M10 is sitting on my porch looking at the trees while Im sitting inside. Testing continues...

To sum it up, it's most useful for remote capturing (as expected), ORF transfer is really, really slow.

Thanks for the link/tip.

 

Not surprising as it is over USB 2. That is why I always move the card to an integrated card reader or to one connected via USB 3. If compact flash, also make sure it is UDMA 7 rated. If SD card, get one that is at least class 10.

 

Maybe I forgot to say that I was using it via WiFI?

 

Probably slower than USB 2 if wifi had to do lots or retransmissions.

 

You're totally right, only thought to try the wifi, and it worked instantly with the trigger... kind of interesting.