Ken:
In finally got to try this out in the field, and did come away with a few questions, and hoped to ask here.
First let me say, I was glad I had this solution, as I showed up on site, with only 1 battery, (it was already past 1/2), only a 4GB card. Oops. You would think I would check that.
1. My main question is when I got all attached, had C1 open, and the back attached, when I shot nothing happened. I had assumed that I would just start sending images to the same Capture folder I done when I briefly tested. C1 was open on this folder and no image appeared. I had to open a new session to get the images to start showing up. This folder was created as a "untitledseesion" folder and gave all the image that same name i.e untitledseesion02195.IIQ etc. No big deal, however I would love to not have the untitledsession in the name. I did not delete the folder named "capture" so now I have 2 folders, Capture and untitled session. Is there a way to avoid this so all the images will go to the capture folder?
2. As my battery was already at 1/2, I told the back to allow charging at first at low then moved to high. This saved the day, as I stupidly also have the wifi still turned on and that does drain the back. I was able to get in around 90 minutes of shooting before the battery in the back started to blink and cause the usual issues. My question, is you obviously have to have a battery in the back even tethered? I tried to run just tethered, but with no battery and the back would not come on. After the battery starts to blink the USB connection to the SPro2 becomes a bit iffy. So I un-tethered and finished out just writing to the card. Even then I had to power on an off several times to finish as the back would only write one file before acting up.
3. I started with the power setting on the SPro2 at power saver, and this does slow down the image write time to about 4 to 5 secs and slows down even more in a burst. What power setting do you use? I switched to balanced and it seemed to do an OK job.
4. Delete, I was never able to delete an image. I had a couple of mistiming situations and wanted to just delete the images. Selecting the image and then delete nothing happened, tried later just in normal workflow C1 and still nothing. Have to figure that out.
5. Tried to work on a few images, but the colors were a bit off, and the screen/win8 currently is not color managed. At least I have not profiled it. Do you have yours color managed? if so what software did you pick and how is that working?
Observations:
You better expect to get a lot of questions. I was setup in a public spot and people just didn't understand what was going on.
The SPro2 view at 100% is FAR better than the iPad over capture Pilot and wireless, really no comparison. I should have done a bit more homework on this I guess as looking back the 160 would have been the place to stay. The SPro2 is a mirror like the Ipad, but you can move it around most of the time to see it or put your arm around over it. It's easy to place it with the Arkon arm you suggested. Arm is secure and stays put.
The images load on the SPro2 darker than on the back screen, I had noted this also on the iPad, so this takes a bit of getting used to. However when opened in C1 all is fine. This issue can cause a bit of concern when looking at LCC"s
Setup is a bit more time consuming especially when attempting to move, lower, reposition the tripod. The SPro2 out riding on the arm can cause a bit of balancing problems, so I just started powering off the back, disconnecting and then moving the tripod around. This would be the same with the iPad. I need to get the case you mentioned.
Make sure you have the pen pointer in the field, as I quickly released that my finger would cause more harm than good unless double clicking to see 100%. Note to self, go get another one of these.
Currently I have the 64GB Micro card and the copy over time took about 7 minutes to backup from the SPro2 to card 7GB so about 1GB a minute. Not the fastest, but need to double check that write time. Considering an external Flash USB3 flashdrive which should be alot faster.
It's going to take a bit of getting used to not having the images on the back, however even review on the SPro2 is much faster.
I ended up putting the thumbnails on the right side, and taking the tool panel off, then floated the navigator tool on the full screen. This is all you really need to see, check. You can save this as a named workflow. I would love to only have one row of thumbs but could not minimize the view to only 1 row.
More to follow.
Paul