erwin paul photography Posted June 27, 2009 Share Posted June 27, 2009 <p>Dear forum members.<br>I have an Canon 1Ds camera and recently purchased a Lacie rugged harddisk, with the plan to use it directly on my camera's Firewire port.<br>This way when I shoot I have photo's on the harddisk as well as on the memmory card. Instant backup and I can take the harddisk to the desktop pc or labtop and work on them or show the photos to the client.<br>Does anyone know if this is possable, or do I need to connect the camera to a labtop and the harddisk to the same labtop?<br>Thanks in advance, Erwin</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobatkins Posted June 27, 2009 Share Posted June 27, 2009 <p>As far as I know you need a computer between the camera and the drive. Neither the camera nor the disk is likely to have the drivers required to write directly to a disk.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rainer_t Posted June 27, 2009 Share Posted June 27, 2009 <p>Hearsay, but ... a 1DsMkIII in combination with a WFT-E2(A) should be able to control an external disk connected with USB.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erwin paul photography Posted June 27, 2009 Author Share Posted June 27, 2009 <p>Bob and Rainer thanks for the quick answers. I guess I will be using the labtop in the studio for now, and in the field, well just the memmory cards.<br> Until I get my hands on a wft unit. I was also hoping to get ritt of the memmory card download time to the harddisk in the desktop.<br> Erwin</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robin_sibson1 Posted June 27, 2009 Share Posted June 27, 2009 <p>It continues to surprise me that DSLRs don't come with built-in HOST USB, only client USB. But that's the way it apparently is.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zml Posted June 27, 2009 Share Posted June 27, 2009 <p>No hearsay: both 1D/1Ds Mk II and Mk III allow connecting of an external drive via a port on the Wi-Fi unit. Not sure if there was a Wi-Fi unit for the original "Mk. I" 1D and 1Ds.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles_Webster Posted June 27, 2009 Share Posted June 27, 2009 <p>However the Wi-Fi unit is way more expensive than a laptop! And far less available.</p> <p>Shoot tethered to a laptop. It's easy, and it works reliably. I use Breeze Systems DSLR Capture Pro to shoot tethered from my 50D to my Dell laptop. It takes 4 seconds for the picture to appear on the laptop.</p> <p><Chas></p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zml Posted June 27, 2009 Share Posted June 27, 2009 <p>However, if shooting tethered is one's thing, after the very first time one trips over the USB cable and knocks down one's $8000 (plus lens) camera or one's laptop, one tends to rather quickly run to one's purveyor of all things photographic and purchase the Wi-Fi module :-)<br> Not to mention that elevated shooting (camera on a stick over a crowd...) is way easier with the Wi-Fi module and a $300 notebook 'puter than with a USB cable attached to said 'puter.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDMvW Posted June 28, 2009 Share Posted June 28, 2009 <blockquote> <p>'puter?</p> </blockquote> <p>eewww, that's <em>ugly</em> !<br> However, this thread is just twitching with goodies. I especially like "labtop" ;)</p> <p>Isn't it more usual to research whether the HD will work with the setup you have <em>before</em> you buy it?</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erwin paul photography Posted June 30, 2009 Author Share Posted June 30, 2009 <p>Isn't it more usual to research whether the HD will work with the setup you have <em>before</em> you buy it?<br> Good question.<br> I asked and the lady at the camera store told me it can. But I don't see any info or instructions, although the suplied firewire cable will plug in both the camera and harddisk. But I don't want to blow up the camera just becouse the store lady told me so, maybe becouse she wanted to be sure I bought it.<br> Sorry for any typo's, I am origanly from The Netherlands and English is my second language.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danny_donut Posted July 27, 2009 Share Posted July 27, 2009 <p>Why backup directly to an externa Laciel hardrive when back it up directly to a cheap and light laptop/netbook?<br> That external hardrive will draw power anyways so it either needs it own supply or sap power from the USB connection.<br> If you want to back up real-time, photo by photo you could consider using a PUB box from homebrewusb.com. With the proper software, in addition to the copy stored on the on-board memory card, I believe it will download the photo to your PC. It's faster than wi-fi, with up to 100Mbps data rate, but connection range is limited to about 10 feet.<br> Danny</p> <p> </p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phule Posted July 27, 2009 Share Posted July 27, 2009 <p>Erwin,</p> <p>If you're looking to do backups in the field, have you considered devices like this?</p> <p>http://www.hyperdrive.com/</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erwin paul photography Posted July 31, 2009 Author Share Posted July 31, 2009 <p>Danny and Rob, thanks for the response, I will check into the two systems mentioned.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phule Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 <p>One other update, Epson has released a firmware upgrade which allows the kind of tethered shooting you're looking for with 2 of their portable devices:</p> <p>http://www.photographyblog.com/news/free_tethered_shooting_support_for_epson_photoviewers/</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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