SIX or assignment parameters suggest that artistic vision develop throughout the process from shoot to final image,whichmaybeblended,retouched,composited, combined, stitched, or processed as a high dynamic range(HDR)image?Whatarethecriteriaforthefinal output?Screenorsubstrate,orboth?Traditionaloffset press or digital press, or both? Big output or little output?Whatareyoutodowhenyouhaveonlyalittle pieceofthedeliveryimage? The answer is to collect as much information as pos- sible about the final use of the images. You should understandwhatthatmeansinrelationtothekindof file that needs to be delivered and how that dictates imagecapture. Tethered Capture · Canmetadatabeapplied? · Willthefilesbewrittentobothmemorycard,disk? · What might happen to the images being trans- ferredifthecameraconnectionisinterrupted? Whenshootingistethered,therecanbeaspeeddif- ferenceduetotheoperatingsystem(OS)andthecon- nection type.The camera manufacturer's software for MaccomputerscanbeslowerwithUSB2connections than with Firewire. The trend seems to be toward USB2 for newer cameras.This has meant that tether transfer speeds have become significantly slower for cameraswithUSB2cablesconnectedtoMaccomput- ers.Awareofthischange,somehavetakenadvantage of the dual boot capabilities of Intel Macs to run a Windows partition for tethered capture. Others have investedinaWindowslaptopfortetheredshoots.This