Photographer Builds His Own Tethering App After One Too Many Broken Sets
Workflow Opinion·8d ago
via PetaPixel
Daily Digest
Saturday, May 2, 2026
Sony A7C II Hits $2,098, CFexpress Prices Rising May 11, Tethering Software Gaps Exposed
Gear frustration, honestly
Today's through-line is photographers vs. the tools they're supposed to trust. Tethering software that drops on live sets. Card prices creeping up with a date attached. A solid opinion piece calling out spec worship for what it is. Nothing revolutionary shipped today, but there's plenty worth acting on.
Storage pricing reset underway across CFexpress and SD — stock up before May 11Commercial workflow tools (tethering, reliability) are becoming credible DIY territory when subscriptions failSony ecosystem breadth is impressive but ultra-fast glass for low-light events remains a real system limitation
Top Stories · 12 items
1 When a working photographer builds their own tool, the commercial software has failed them badly enough to matter.
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