Leica Guy Posted March 20, 2016 Share #21 Posted March 20, 2016 Advertisement (gone after registration) My guess is tablet PC means iPad not Laptop. The app works with iOS and I assume not with OSX. I will be delighted to be wrong about this. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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lucerne Posted March 20, 2016 Share #22 Posted March 20, 2016 My guess is tablet PC means iPad not Laptop. The app works with iOS and I assume not with OSX. I will be delighted to be wrong about this. Not much doubt about this. But PC means personal computer, which historically is a desktop. Laptops came later and continued to use desktop personal computer operating systems. There can still be some confusion because Microsoft make phones and tablets that run a PC operating system. Apple don't do that, so apple tablet and Apple iPhone both use IOS and will run the Leica app version for IOS. When tablets became popular, non-Microsoft manufacturers introduced specific operating systems. Usually Android or Apple IOS. Phones went the same way. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leica Guy Posted March 21, 2016 Share #23 Posted March 21, 2016 I think Leica used the wrong terminology when they said Tablet PC then (IOS and Android) was in parenthesis. It's confusing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pop Posted March 21, 2016 Share #24 Posted March 21, 2016 I just consulted Amazon and studied their offering under the term "Tablet PC". Android tablets, iPads and Windows tablets were listed, laptops were not. Windows tablets will not work with the Q, I presume, and the other two will. Your results may vary as I am automatically redirected to Amazon's German language page, even when querying in English. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herve5 Posted March 21, 2016 Share #25 Posted March 21, 2016 The only way I'd see to drive a Q from MacOSX would be to use the android application, wrapped into one of these android-on-OSX things we see regularly. I'm not sure about the wifi proper handling, but if this works, the rest should follow, as the Q android app is independent from Google Apps (I tested this, installing it on a Fairphone without these). Still it'll be a complex installation, and what you'll find yourself with is nothing more than what you get on phones or tablets : complete control of the Q, but only jpeg transfers (which is normal, given the time moving DNGs would take) The Q cannot be tethered via USB, at this moment at least. Whenever plugged to a mac or PC, it switches to a "remote disk mode" where it definitely appears, on the USB bus, as just a disk (I checked this too). As a consequence, all the applications devoted to tethering cannot work with it at this moment -and this not 'by their fault', but as a result of the Q design. Now, if all the OP needs is fast image transfer on the MB Air, there are still two easy ways to do it : plug the Q on USB onto the Air, or, as Lucerne said, get its SD card into the mac... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete McGill Posted March 22, 2016 Share #26 Posted March 22, 2016 I fooled around with the WiFi app and found it to be a little cumbersome and somewhat buggy. The best set up I found was to set the camera power saving features to their maximum setting, and use the camera in Host mode. It's best if you can use an iPad so you can keep the app alive in the background when you need to switch to another app like Lightroom mobile so it doesn't lose the connection. Once you lose the connection it sometimes locks up or won't reconnect. Personally I do see a few limited uses for it but I find that using the iPad SD card reader ($29USD) a much faster and more reliable option if you just want to transfer images. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete McGill Posted March 22, 2016 Share #27 Posted March 22, 2016 Advertisement (gone after registration) Oh, and one more thing. Using WiFi will dramatically reduce your battery life. Another reason I only use it in rare circumstances. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucerne Posted March 22, 2016 Share #28 Posted March 22, 2016 The only way I'd see to drive a Q from MacOSX would be to use the android application, wrapped into one of these android-on-OSX things we see regularly. I'm not sure about the wifi proper handling, but if this works, the rest should follow, as the Q android app is independent from Google Apps (I tested this, installing it on a Fairphone without these). Still it'll be a complex installation, and what you'll find yourself with is nothing more than what you get on phones or tablets : complete control of the Q, but only jpeg transfers (which is normal, given the time moving DNGs would take) The Q cannot be tethered via USB, at this moment at least. Whenever plugged to a mac or PC, it switches to a "remote disk mode" where it definitely appears, on the USB bus, as just a disk (I checked this too). As a consequence, all the applications devoted to tethering cannot work with it at this moment -and this not 'by their fault', but as a result of the Q design. Now, if all the OP needs is fast image transfer on the MB Air, there are still two easy ways to do it : plug the Q on USB onto the Air, or, as Lucerne said, get its SD card into the mac... Who needs a complex solution. This is photography, for photographers, and shouldn't be an IT exercise. When I retired from my career in IT I was relieved to be able to get away from constantly trying to make things work when they weren't designed to do so. I bought into Leica and I limit my activities to whatever my kit does as part of its standard operation. I don't seek out or complain about limited features. It's such a waste of effort. The workaround suggested is never going to be smooth. For image transfer, use the Sdcard in whatever slot is available in your chosen computing device and you can process your images as much as you want. . It's so easy. Everything else is is a bodge, and will be awkward and unreliable. You can't expect Leica to incorporate every possible combination of image file handling. The Leica app isn't designed for studio style tethering to Windows or Apple computers although it does work adequately for Q to Almost any phone or tablet remote control. In some circumstances, the phone doesn't even need a SIM . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herve5 Posted March 23, 2016 Share #29 Posted March 23, 2016 Who needs a complex solution. (...) The workaround suggested is never going to be smooth. I fully agree and am not using this solution myself, I just tried to answer the actual question of the OP : how to drive the Q from OSX, which is not baselined by default. But I definitely agree with you, and indeed, my last sentence did propose to just slip the SD card into the mac... What we hit here is the fact Qs are not tetherable, contrary to all other cameras in this price range, and this seems to be a conscious decision from Leica: Q a compact cam planned to be fully driveable, but only from your phone... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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