iPhone app - Control your Canon DSLR!

[Joe_Lorenzini]

From onOne: "The new [iPhone] application that we’ve devloped is called the DSLR Remote and it is a wireless cable release for your Canon EOS DSLR camera."

http://www.ononesoftware.com/blog/20...pp-from-onone/

Wow, this looks so cool!

Joe

[Jake]

That's pretty dang cool!

I love this part:
"If you have a Canon EOS DSLR camera that supports Live View [ 4 ] you can even get a live stream of the camera’s viewfinder on your iPhone."

[CaptainTom]

Been shooting tethered for a long time.
This sounds pretty cool.
Imagine setting up your system with strobes and everything and then activating it from your Iphone ? Then, showing the images that you just took from your Iphone. Is there a distance restriction here? Could I set up my camera at home, and activate it by Iphone from Alaska ?????

[frameworthy]

Originally Posted by CaptainTom

Is there a distance restriction here? Could I set up my camera at home, and activate it by Iphone from Alaska ?????

I hope not. I can see potential for when I'm a dad one day. "You see this? It's a camera. I'm going out with your mom, and your friends can come over, but I'm taking a picture every 2 minutes...I'll be watching....."


But seriously, this could be awesome. Imagine setting up a camera in a restricted wedding ceremony and just sitting there and "snapping" away. A cheap alternative to PW's and you get more control.

[toverman]

That is cool, but am I reading this right? Your camera still needs to be tethered to a computer running the companion software?

[Jake]

Originally Posted by toverman

That is cool, but am I reading this right? Your camera still needs to be tethered to a computer running the companion software?

That's right. It's more for controlled tethered shooting.

[Marv800]

Whoa. Up until the moment I saw this thread, I have never wanted an iPhone.

[CaptainTom]

Iphone is now a legitimate photographic expense ......

[bobby71]

Originally Posted by thejakestir

That's right. It's more for controlled tethered shooting.

I understood that it uses wifi to control the camera. so you're not tethered. you're only tethered when you're setting up the camera with the server software. Did I read that right?

[jeffkohn]

Originally Posted by bobby71

I understood that it uses wifi to control the camera. so you're not tethered. you're only tethered when you're setting up the camera with the server software. Did I read that right?

Your camera would have to support wireless control for that to work. If Canon DSLR's have that it's news to me.

[bobby71]

Originally Posted by jeffkohn

Your camera would have to support wireless control for that to work. If Canon DSLR's have that it's news to me.

haha...good point!
I guess it's not as cool as I thought. Still pretty cool, though. I got the impression it wasn't tethered because the video doesn't show the laptop sitting on top of the basketball goal, just the camera.

[Jake]

Originally Posted by bobby71

I understood that it uses wifi to control the camera. so you're not tethered. you're only tethered when you're setting up the camera with the server software. Did I read that right?

I read it differently. I don't think any Canon DSLR's have wifi.

[CaptainTom]

my understanding

camera tethered to laptop
laptop is wifi
phone communicates with laptop via wifi.

to me, you should be able to communicate with the laptop/camera
from anywhere you have phone service ???

[photonewb]

wonder if they'll bother to adapt it to Nikon

[ngoduyviet]

Originally Posted by CaptainTom

my understanding

camera tethered to laptop
laptop is wifi
phone communicates with laptop via wifi.

to me, you should be able to communicate with the laptop/camera
from anywhere you have phone service ???

That would be too slow, even 3G on the current iPhone is no where near home wifi slowest speed.

It would be cool however, if they could work out a usb -> bluetooth dongle for your DSLR, then use your iPhone bluetooth to communicate directly with it. But then they'd have to reverse engineer the communication protocol between Canon / Nikon / Sony ...'s software & their DSLRs.