Live Camera FTP Tethering for Event Photographers
Connect your camera's built-in Wi-Fi / FTP directly to Pixeva. As you press the shutter, photos land live into your event gallery where guests take a selfie and find their shots instantly.
A7 IV, A7R V, A9 III, A1 background FTP transfer
EOS R3, R5, R6 Mark II, 1D X Mark III FTP client
Z8, Z9, Z6 III wireless transmitter FTP
From shutter to searchable gallery
Four steps, no laptop in the room.
Step 1
Get your FTP credentials
Pixeva issues a host, username and password scoped to one event. Nothing is shared between events, and you can revoke a set the moment a shoot ends.
Step 2
Enter them in the camera
Put the details into the Wi-Fi FTP settings on the body or its wireless transmitter. No laptop, no tethering cable and no capture software in the loop.
Step 3
Shoot as normal
Each frame transfers in the background over Wi-Fi and lands in the gallery in roughly one to two minutes. Duplicates are skipped and EXIF is preserved.
Step 4
Guests find themselves live
Arriving photos are face-indexed automatically, so guests can take a selfie and pull their shots while the event is still running.
Camera FTP tethering FAQ
- Which cameras work with Pixeva FTP?
- Any body or wireless transmitter with built-in Wi-Fi FTP. That covers recent Sony, Canon, Nikon and Fuji bodies — for example the Sony A7 IV and A1, Canon EOS R3 and R5, and Nikon Z8 and Z9.
- Do I need a laptop or capture software?
- No. The camera talks to Pixeva directly over Wi-Fi. That is the point of FTP tethering — there is no machine at the back of the room to babysit, and nothing to go wrong if someone closes a lid.
- Does FTP upload keep my EXIF metadata?
- Yes. Camera model, lens, exposure and capture time all survive the transfer, so your catalogue and later edits stay intact. Capture time is also used to order the gallery correctly when frames arrive out of sequence.
- FTPS or plain FTP?
- Both. FTPS is the default because it encrypts the transfer, but some camera bodies will only trust it once you import the root certificate into the camera. If a body refuses to connect over FTPS, plain FTP can be enabled for that camera instead.
- How long until a photo appears in the gallery?
- Roughly one to two minutes per frame on decent venue Wi-Fi, including face indexing. Weak Wi-Fi is the usual bottleneck — the transfer queues and catches up rather than dropping frames.
- What happens if the Wi-Fi drops mid-event?
- The camera retries on its own schedule and Pixeva de-duplicates on arrival, so a reconnect does not produce a second copy of anything already in the gallery.