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If you’ve ever lost a shot because your tethering software dropped the connection mid-shoot, you already know how frustrating a bad cable can be. Tethered photography — connecting your camera directly to a computer or tablet so images appear on screen the moment you shoot them — is one of the most powerful workflows in modern photography. But it’s only as reliable as the cable linking those two devices together.

Enter the TetherPro Optima 10G series from Tether Tools. Recognised by the Professional Photographers of America as one of its 2025 Hot Ones, this cable line was engineered from the ground up specifically for photographers and digital techs who demand stable, high-speed image transfer on every single shot.
Here’s what makes it stand out — and why it might be the single best upgrade you can make to your tethered shooting setup.
When USB-C became the standard connector for modern cameras and laptops, it brought a welcome convenience: one cable for data and power. Sounds ideal, right?

For photographers, it’s actually a problem.
USB 3.2 introduced a feature called Power Delivery (PD), which can push up to 240W through the same cable used for data transfer. The issue is that Power Delivery is known to cause instability in tethered connections — resulting in dropped connections, slow transfers, and that dreaded moment when Capture One or Lightroom loses sight of your camera entirely mid-shoot.
Generic USB-C cables don’t solve this. They were designed as general-purpose cables, not specialist tools for a demanding studio workflow.
The most important engineering decision Tether Tools made with the Optima 10G series was removing Power Delivery from the cable entirely. This is a dedicated data-transfer cable. By eliminating PD, they’ve removed the primary cause of connection instability in tethered workflows.
The cable still provides the standard low-level power (1.5A) that comes with USB 3.0 and above — enough to keep your camera communicating — but without the interference that causes dropped connections. The result is a rock-solid link between your camera and computer, every time.
Better still, the Optima 10G series is plug and play. There’s no need to adjust your camera’s power settings before shooting. Just connect and go.

The “10G” in the name isn’t just branding. These cables are rated for 10 Gigabits per second — the full USB 3.2 Gen 2 specification. For photographers shooting high-resolution RAW files, this means images appear on your tethering screen almost instantly after capture.
When you’re directing a client or working with a creative director reviewing shots in real time, that speed matters enormously.
One of the most technically impressive features of the Optima 10G series is the built-in TetherBoost signal amplification. Standard USB cables begin to degrade signal quality the longer they get — this is physics, not a flaw.

Tether Tools counters this with dual reinforced TetherBoost Pro IC chipsets integrated directly into the cable. These retimer chips actively boost and stabilise the signal, ensuring consistent performance even over longer runs. The Optima 10G is available in lengths from 3 feet up to 31 feet, and when paired with a TetherBoost Pro Core Controller and 16-foot extension cables, you can tether reliably up to an impressive 63 feet without any signal loss.
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Michael Frayn and Julian Barnes have announced that they won’t be writing any more books. It is a hard habit to kick
“Retirement is the ugliest word in the language,” Ernest Hemingway said. Writers, like artists in general, aren’t the retiring sort. And what does it actually mean? As the playwright, novelist and former Guardian journalist Michael Frayn quipped 20 years ago, “Nobody comes in and gives you a clock.”
Frayn was 72 at the time. Since then, he has added a further novel (Skios), a play (Afterlife) and two memoirs to a backlist that includes the hugely successful plays Noises Off and Copenhagen (a revival of which has just finished at the Hampstead theatre in London). Now, at 92, that clock has caught up with him. “Sadly it’s over,” he told Radio 4 this week. “Writing has been my life.”
Continue reading...Alex Jenkinson, 39, from Suffolk is expected to stand trial in July, with the former duke of York to give evidence
A man has denied threatening Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor after reports the former prince was accosted near his Sandringham home earlier this week.
Alex Jenkinson, 39, pleaded not guilty at Westminster magistrates court on Friday to using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour with intent to cause fear or provoke unlawful violence against the former duke of York.
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