ASIAIR and Canon Mirrorless (R5): Picture load speed

Yuri

One more question from a newbie.

Connected my Canon R5 to ASIAIR Pro as the main camera, using a proven USB-C SuperSpeed cable. Used blue USB sockets on ASIAIR Pro.

Each picture load from the camera to device take very long time, showing only 6 MB/s as peak performance. Even USB 2.0 shall give max of 480 Mbps, or 80 MB/s, right?

Same camera, same cable but connected to a Windows 10 PC: transferring a 50-Megabyte picture takes less then a second.

Shall I flip some setting in ASIAIR to make transfer faster? Thank you.

Or wait: perhaps slow is not a data load from camera to ASIAIR via USB cable, but picture transfer from ASIAIR to iPad via WiFi?

w7ay

Yuri Or wait: perhaps slow is not a data load from camera to ASIAIR via USB cable, but picture transfer from ASIAIR to iPad via WiFi?

Do you have a Ethernet adapter for your iPad?

If so, connect the iPad directly to the ASIAIR's LAN port and bypass WiFi completely.

If you have a newer iPad that has USB-C connector, you can use many available Gigabit adapter such as this one:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08YY4BQH2

If your iPad has a Lightning connector, find a fast adapter that can do better than just 10/100 Mbps Ethernet, like this one:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07BMVW62P

With a Gigabit adapter, iPadOS Setting's Ethernet Setting should show 10/100/1000 Ethernet. Be aware that most Lightning adapters are 10/100 Mbps Ethernet. The one above is one of the few 1000/100/10. Most USB-C adapters are Gigabit.

Chen

Yuri

Thank you, w7ay and Kring,

I do not use any Wi-Fi router in between ASIAR and iPad (it's iPad Pro 2019, by the way), so it's a direct connection. The distance between devices was not an issue as they were lying on the desk next to each other.

I'll try both faster storage and Ethernet connection, thank you for suggestions. Ethernet cable is the last resort, as it would limit tablet's (and mine) mobility.

By the way: do I get it right that if I perform serial shooting without preview, this Wi-Fi delay does not spoil the game, and the only delay applied is the one related to the performance of the storage media?

Kring

You need to put Asiair on ethernet, unfortunately wifi is 1/10th the speed so that is your biggest performance loss. Next I recomend you get a USB SSD stick that can xfer at 450 mb/sec. This will give it another significant boost. It’s good your have camera in USB 3 blue port too.

the slowness is caused ny multiple bottlenecks so the above makes a massive difference. I even went as far to get a Lexar MicroSD which is 10x faster than the sandisk one that comes with the asiair, and that boosted performance as well.

What kind of wifi router do you have? If it’s older you may be loosing even more with at latent older model.

My Camera takes 50mb pictures and they transfer in under a second from when they complete exposure to when they appear on my ipad. The ipad’s wifi is fast enough to match that of ethernet on the asiair

Kring

Gotcha, your issue is most likely wifi speeds, even with them physically close, the AAPs throughput is going to be a small fraction of ethernet or high-speed wifi, it's wifi capabilities are just limited.

The way I understand it works - This is just slowness in presentation between the AAP (after a picture) and your iPad displaying it for you, it has little to do with image capture between camera & AAP or how fast the AAP is running internally. Once you initiate say an autorun of 20 exposures for 5 min each - right after you click start, it's entirely running between the physical hardware (AAP, cables, cameras) and it's being run by the on-ASIair software installed on the microSD card... You can technically close the ASIAir app and never open it again and everything will complete perfectly, even a shutdown and the next day all your pics are there.

What you are likely experiencing is the lag of transferring your most recent photo between the AAP after it saved it to the USB stick to your ipad via wifi - that can take a few seconds, and due to the wifi weak strength I've even seen it have blips and fail to load, or hang for 10 seconds while it re-establishes connection... good news is your stuff is totally safe on hardware since the iPad is only a viewer, it doesn't actually do anything or store anything there.

So first step, try an ethernet, even indoors with the AAP connected to your router and take a pic with lenscap on just to see how much faster it will be. the quicker USB sticks, MicroSD cards will boost the AAP's internal processing substantially so that too will increase overall speed which could shave another second or two off every capture, it also makes the app feel snappier.

the last troublshooting item is to switch USB cables... I personally have found that basic/cheap cables are abundant and they are usually the cause of issues. Last week I was having mount issues with my AAP & CGX. I had tried 5 USB cables and 4 out of 5 were bad. all basic non-branded cables - but they are bad more often than not. and some USB cables out there are charging cables not data cables so they are even missing internal wiring to support communication. but the fact you tested that cable on a PC tells me that's likely not the case... this is just one more thought.

Yuri

Kring, thank you very much from so detailed post!

Good that Wi-Fi performance does not affect internal ASIair workflow, so it is just an annoying thing, nothing more.

Will definitely test Ethernet connection just to compare the transfer rates.

As for USB cable lottery--I am well aware of it (a senior IT professional, after all :-)), so I used a cable which I had personally tested to comply with 10 Gbit/s SuperSpeed+ standard.

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