Hey IQ 4150 havers, have you done any tests on the tethering options?
I’m looking to see what intake timing is for USBC, Ethernet, Wifi. Also best practices powering camera from Ethernet.
I'm not posting the times I have recorded because our last thorough testing was done with the previous firmware version and is already out of date. It's also computer dependent. Hopefully some early receivers of IQ4s will post their transfer times - I would encourage them, for posterity, to list their firmware version and computer hardware specs so that someone reading this in a couple years has some idea of what reference point is relevant.
A short non-numerical summary is:
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USB-C is fastest and is *really* fast even with sustained max frame rate shooting. But as with any USB device, the longest cable length can be limiting.
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Ethernet is about as fast as USB3 was on the IQ3. It can go out to around 100 meters (300 feet) in length, and any port that supports Power Over Ethernet (POE) should provide both power to run the back and body, and power to charge the batteries inside each. Currently it requires an ethernet port that can assign an IP address, such as a router (or the "house" ethernet plug in a studio, which almost always leads to a router).
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Wireless raw transfer is pretty slow, but could be highly useful in specific set ups where fast continuous shooting is not required. I also suspect it will be popular for those shooting Sensor+ mode (38 megapixel) as those files are much smaller and will transfer pretty quick.
I suspect wireless will see the most improvement over the coming months, as there is a lot of opportunity to use the direct integration of C1 ("C1 inside") to do things like generate an initial preview(s) and send those to C1 on the computer while waiting for the full raw file(s) is transferring.
