Tethered Shooting USB vs. Firewire

OzzwaldOzzwald Registered Users Posts: 110 Major grins
edited August 11, 2010 in Digital Darkroom
Anyone know or have any personal experience shooting tethered with firewire? About to buy a couple cables and was wondering if there was a huge difference in transfer speed between USB and Firewire 800. If Anyone know let me know...or ill just buy both and compare them for myself and let you know.

Last question do they make Firewire 800 to USB 4-pin Mini B cables or do i have to get a firewire 800 to usb 2.0 then get an adapter to go to mini usb?

thanks in advance.
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  • ivarivar Registered Users Posts: 8,395 Major grins
    edited July 26, 2010
    why would you want to convert USB to FireWire and use that? headscratch.gif

    You have only a usb connection on your camera right? whatever cable/converter you attach to that, it will never become faster than what your camera connection can put out (only slower maybe).
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  • Manfr3dManfr3d Registered Users Posts: 2,008 Major grins
    edited August 11, 2010
    Hi, this makes no sense. The FW cable cannot increase the speed you get
    from your USB source because the usb source will always output the data
    at the same speed regardless of which cable is connected - you can only
    loose performance by adding another element to the line.
    “To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk.”
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