Now Micro43 cameras are even more serious studiocameras - request support for tethered shooting now!

The 2.0 update is available for the E-M1 (apparently not for the E-M5 or E-M10), and it supports "Tethered Shooting System (Olympus Capture)" plus a bunch of other features.  

 

I found in a german camera forum a post, where a german guy wrote a program for connecting Olympus WIFI cameras with a laptop. This program was developed as pure hobby project and I have no relationship with the author.
This program is for wifi connection between camera and laptop and works for OM-D E-M1, OM-D E-M10, PEN E-P5 and Stylus 1.

https://rebs.biz/cc/en/index.html

I have tested this program and wrote also a comment in the thread
https://www.mu-43.com/showthread.php?t=69159&page=2

 

Plus the images from it can open in other raw program's (CO, LR etc) & not just OV3.

 

I believe that the Olympus Capture software will be released on 24 Sep, or thereabouts. The latest firmware upgrade has given the E-M1 the ability to work with this software when it's released.

 

Both Olympus Capture & O. Viewer 3 update (1.4) will be released on the 24th. See this page & scroll down. http://www.olympus.co.jp/en/support/imsg/digicamera/download/software/index.cfm#stylus

 

Though I'm not sure what this means:

Which reads differently to:

 

It should mean that since the E-M1 has had its FW 2.0 update, OV3 1.4 version & O. Capture will be able to utilise the camera's updated features, hence the release at the same time.

 

Why didn't Oly also allow tethered shooting via WiFi? The Andreas Rebs "Camera Control" app does exactly that - and he had to reverse engineer the protocol. It's a pretty cool app. You can find it here:

https://rebs.biz/cc/en/index.html

 

Do we know that won't be possible with O. Capture?

 

Capture One was always designed for tethered shooting, being for a camera system (Phase One) that's frequently used for studio work. From memory, C1 supports Nikon and Canon.

I think for fully effective tethered shooting, it has to be via USB cable so that you get consistent throughput. RAW files demand more bandwidth than JPG and, to do it properly, you can't expect wireless to always work smoothly. If you want wireless connectivity, it may be possible to adapted USB wireless technology.

 

The Andreas Rebs app has a nice mode whereby it downloads only the file type you've selected. So, you can shoot raw and JPEG and it'll only download (and automatically display) the much-smaller JPEG. Very useful for previews.

 

Sure for studios or dedicated field place. But many would like that wifi in wildlife or similar with laptop instead tablet only. Attach a powerpack and we have serious tool instead semi.

 

My intent is to use it with a Windows tablet and I'm happy to use a USB cable. But as I said, it may be quite possible to use a USB wireless/Bluetooth dongle, or maybe connected through a portable wireless router. For those who really need it, I'm sure it would be possible.

 

I've been testing Capture One recently and I find it to be dismayingly slow compared to other apps, mainly Lightroom. I don't feel like it does a better job with core adjustments or NR either. Why do you guys like it?

 

I started using Capture One before LR came out, as it was the only decent RAW converter about. However, camera updates used to take forever, so I started trying out LR when it came out and have stayed with it ever since. Capture One did used to do a very good job with the E-1, being designed for CCD sensors, but I think LR worked better with the CMOS sensors of later cameras. If LR goes to the cloud, I'll possibly move back to Capture One. Capture One does take a bit of getting used to if you've used LR.