Photographer Builds His Own Tethering App After One Too Many Broken Sets

Tethering software is one of those pain points every commercial shooter quietly tolerates until they don't. Barnard's decision to build his own tool after a connection dropped on a live set isn't just a good yarn. It's a signal that the existing options, mostly subscription-gated and temperamental, aren't keeping pace with what high-end commercial work actually demands. If you're shooting tethered for clients regularly and you've accepted that occasional dropout as a cost of doing business, that's the real problem here. Worth reading less for the software itself, which isn't widely available yet, and more for the feature wishlist it surfaces. That list will tell you exactly what's missing from the tools you're already paying for.