Now here’s an app many creative professionals might find useful. The DSLR Remote iPhone app lets you trigger your camera’s shutter, adjust almost any of its settings, and view photos it’s taken. The catch, unfortunately, is that the camera needs to be wired to a computer for this to work. Even so, I can think of plenty of situations where this could come in handy, though admittedly there are few where a professional would absolutely need it. Still, the more tools you have, the more versatile your whole setup is, and who wouldn’t want to snap pics via their iPhone anyway?
It even works with Live View, so you essentially have yourself a gigantic spy camera if you need it. It’s available now at the App Store in two flavors: Lite for $2 and Pro for $10. I’d spring for Pro, because that lets you do the more advanced adjustments and use Live View.
There are plans for a Nikon version but they’re still testing that. Patience, grasshopper.
[via Photo District News]
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Pretty cool.
Hmm. That might make a nice setup with a netbook of some flavor. DSLR connected to the netbook, controlled by the iPhone. Still a fairly light-weight rig to cart around.
Why not just control it from the netbook then?
It seems to me it is basically a selective VNC connection for the Canon EOS Utility. Neat, but I don’t know that it’s worth the price.
Gimmie a cable to tether this baby using the iphone 3.0 hardware sdk and it’s a winner.
That is completely and utterly stupid.
If you have an IR enabled phone like a Nokia E-Series then you can download http://irremote.psiloc.com/ and guess what. You can shoot remotely with your cannon, nikon or pretty much any camera that has an IR sensor. Of course remote means up to about 2 metres away.
The only downside to that is that it is most reliable from in front of the camera. What would really be sweet would be a remote that would control the camera via RF, but that seems unlikely since the cameras are all IR remote controlled. I guess you could make a hardware solution that plugged into the wired remote jack, or used the remote trigger in the battery bay.
SWEET, looking forward for the Nikon version!
Nice. Could be useful for astrophotography. Hope to see a nice video guide to the app.
I don’t see the point to this app, especially paying $10. If someone could enlighten me on why it is so special, I am all ears.