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Tether Tools Smart Shooter 5 lets you control up to 10 cameras simultaneously

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Tether Tools has announced the newest version of its Smart Shooter tethered shooting software. Smart Shooter 5 comes with a bunch of new features, including the ability to shoot up to 10 cameras simultaneously and stream live view from four of them at once. It offers a new SmartSave camera to cloud feature and also lets you shoot into an existing Lightroom catalogue.

You get customisable interfaces through the My Workspaces feature. A built-in bulk QR/Barcode generator is available for those doing bulk shooting, such as product or school photography, letting you quickly and easily access any image from the session. You also get live view overlay modes to provide you with on-screen guides to line up your shots and it’s now compatible with Fujifilm cameras.

One ONsite Relay C can replace 8 batteries

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You’ve been there. You are shooting a long-form video or running a full night timelapse, and boom! Your battery dies. It’s one of those sad things that comes with digital photography. The need for power. If you are shooting something where you cannot move your camera, swapping batteries can be a real project killer. This is where the ONsite Relay C (link) comes in. It provides an uninterrupted power supply to your camera via the battery chamber. (And that battery port thing matters. I’ll get to that later).

The ONsite Relay C is a battery coupler with some smarts to connect more than one battery to your camera. More than one battery means that even if one battery runs out, the other battery will keep pushing power to your camera, so the camera never feels the swap. From the camera’s perspective, it just has one huge power reservoir to drink from.

We are giving away over $12,000 of cinema gear

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UPDATE: This giveaway has now ended. Scroll to the end to see if you won. Huge thank you to our sponsors for the prizes and support.

With IBC starting this week, we are excited to start our traditional IBC cinema gear giveaway. And this year, we have partnered with top brands to give you the best package to kickstart (or elevate) your Cinematography Career.

Among this year’s participating brands are Sachtler, Sennheiser, B&H, SmallRig, Insta360, Prograde, OWC, Spekular, and Tether Tools. For the full list of amazing prizes hit the rest of the post.

All you have to do to participate is tell us the brand of camera you are shooting with.

This giveaway ends on Tueday, September 20th!

Tether Tools replaces the JerkStopper with the new TetherGuard cable management system

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The JerkStopper from Tether Tools has been a staple amongst many photographers who shoot tethered in the studio. It’s been around for well over a decade now and it’s seen several iterations during that time. For those not familiar, it stops your cables from being jerked and pulled out of the sockets of your camera. This prevents both the inconvenience of having to restart cameras and software in the middle of a shoot and also potential damage to the sockets on your camera.

Now, its latest iteration also comes with a new name, in the form of Tether Tools’ new TetherGuard cable management system. Tether Tools describes it as a “magnetic breakaway cable management system” and comes with a new “Lock & Dock” system to ensure every cable stays connected and your ports are safe from damage.

Sony shooters rejoice, you can now tether directly into Lightroom

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Here is a screenshot I did not think I’ll see. Lightroom connected and tethered with a Sony A7III. I mean, Sony has been tethering with Capture One for ages, but Lightroom Classic? Uh uh! Mostly because Sony and Adobe never found a way to share the needed codebase.

But now comes Tether Tools, and fr a mere $69.95, give all Sony shooters the capability they always longed for.

Power ONsite offers, well, power on site – a 110V on-site solution review

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ONsite is a system that provides 110 volts of power from DTAP batteries. If you are coming from the video or movie industry you are probably familiar with DTAP. If you are coming from the stills industry, DTAP is a port often used on V-Mount (and Gold mount) batteries to supply a second power port aside from the main connector. This family of batteries packs a lot of power in a small form factor. you usually use a V-Mount battery to power a big camera, a monitor, some lights and more accessories; they are mighty.

Portable location power for photographers and filmmakers

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As well as cables and wireless tethering, the other thing Tether Tools is well known for is their range of power system for various cameras and tools. Products like the Case Relay have made lives a lot easier for a lot of DSLR and mirrorless shooters when it comes to power. But that isn’t the only power solution they offer. We had a chat with them at PhotoPlus 2019 to find out more about their power options and how they can help photographers and filmmakers.

Wirelessly tether any camera to your desktop with Air Direct

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It’s been three years since we saw the Tether Tools Case Air unveiled at Photokina 2016. It offered a lot of options for wirelessly tethering your camera to their dedicated app running on a tablet. Now, though, the new Tether Tools Air Direct lets you wirelessly tether any camera using your regular desktop software. Lightroom, Capture One, or whatever you want.

We caught up with Tether Tools at PhotoPlus 2019 to find out more about it and its capabilities.

Tether Tools apologizes for unknowingly using a photo without permission

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It’s not rare that we hear of companies using images without permission. But Tether Tools have recently set an example what a company should do when this happens.

As it turned out, their website had a photo which was used without the photographer’s permission. When they realized it, they removed the image and issued both personal and public apology to the photographer.

The Sony A7RIII is the fastest camera out there for tethered shooting, moving photos in under a second

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Of all the features I’ve read about regarding the Sony A7RIII, this is the one that’s probably impressed me the most. I don’t often shoot tethered, but when I do, it’s often quickly. Usually, I’ve got animals in front of the camera, and they tend not to take direction very well. So, I’m shooting fast, then waiting for the computer to catch up.

According to this video from photographer Evan Guttman, that waiting all goes away with the new A7RIII. In burst mode, it manages to transfer shots from the camera to Capture One in under a second each over USB3. And yes, he’s shooting raw, not jpg.

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