DeckardTrinity
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Just fyi, I have personally tested the following tethered setup with my 11" Macbook Air: Sonnet TB - Expresscard 3/4 adapter, Sonnet 3/4 FW 800 card, TB to MBA, FW to Leaf Afi 7 back. Generally speaking it works, but I have not had a chance to test whether or not the back can be powered with this configuration alone (mounted to the Hy6 it gets its power from the battery in the grip).
Single shots and bursts of images (10 or so in 15 - 20 seconds) all came through fine in Leaf Capture, but eventually the connection between the back and the MBA gets corrupted / interrupted to the point where you have to power cycle the back and quit / restart LCC. So I would not rely on this configuration in any sort of critical shooting situation.
But, my dream since getting the mid-'11 MBA last year has been to be able to use it tethered to my back, and short of upgrading the back or the laptop, this is probably the best I'll be able to do.
I am curious if the Belkin TB "dock" which is coming out next month will work better than this Sonnet arrangement? Maybe there is too much latency between all these devices (which does quite resemble something out of Frankenstein's lab when all hooked together).
Single shots and bursts of images (10 or so in 15 - 20 seconds) all came through fine in Leaf Capture, but eventually the connection between the back and the MBA gets corrupted / interrupted to the point where you have to power cycle the back and quit / restart LCC. So I would not rely on this configuration in any sort of critical shooting situation.
But, my dream since getting the mid-'11 MBA last year has been to be able to use it tethered to my back, and short of upgrading the back or the laptop, this is probably the best I'll be able to do.
I am curious if the Belkin TB "dock" which is coming out next month will work better than this Sonnet arrangement? Maybe there is too much latency between all these devices (which does quite resemble something out of Frankenstein's lab when all hooked together).