Comments on: DSLR Remote review with a Canon 5D Mark II

By: Phil Walker

Phil Walker — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:45:57 +0000

Thanks for the explanation, I hadn’t thought of the studio application. I guess it’s worth buying just for the intervalometer, not to mention geek appeal! I haven’t noticed any females raving about this yet.

By: admin

admin — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:43:29 +0000

Phil: for the cases where you want to see the result of the shot while being away from the computer. I think the best example for this is when placing your lights in a studio. You can see an almost live result of your setup. At least that is what I use it for.

By: Phil Walker

Phil Walker — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:34:25 +0000

This is very interesting and I personally hate it when people have a downer on new technology so apologies in advance. The thing that I don’t quite understand is that if you have to connect to a laptop (assuming not everyone has the wft) why not use the much bigger laptop screen to view the image?

By: admin

admin — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:49:08 +0000

Jason: Wow, never heard of this product! It is very cool and at a very decent price. Thx for the info.

By: Jason Cypret

Jason Cypret — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:57:27 +0000

Yeah, not sure it will work for what I want to do. I’m going to pick up this remote timer (recommended by Joe Simon). http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.19691

By: admin

admin — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:51:59 +0000

Jason: I have no idea, but I would simply remove the sleep option from the preference before starting to shoot. I guess the application would stop working other wise.

By: Jason Cypret

Jason Cypret — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:56:01 +0000

Hey great site! Do you have any details about using the intervalometer? I wanted buy this for time lapse, but what happens if the computer goes to sleep?

Thanks for the great site!

By: Peter T.

Peter T. — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 18:09:46 +0000

I agree – only a small percentage of people have the WFT, so anything that’s specific to the WFT is probably right at the bottom of their list.

However, if they implement the “Save to memory card only” request that was already on their list, I can only imagine that they’ll have to send at least the preview JPEG to the server, so the iPhone can review the shots. This would accomplish the same thing (although it would only be the preview, not a selectable JPEG). And it would be good for USB tethering too, as if only the preview JPEG were to be sent, the app would be much snappier to run when shooting in RAW.

However, judging from how the EOS Utility uses PTP, I doubt that it’s even possible to direct the camera to only send a subset of the image. I have a feeling that Canon would have to enhance the firmware and SDK. Just speculating…

Regardless, DSLR Remote is pretty slick, and it’ll be really cool once you can start/stop movie recording.

By: admin

admin — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 16:11:27 +0000

Good list. But I dont know how many people have a WFT so I dont know if it is worth it for them to develop around this product. Still, I am sure some copy cats are going to pop soon and they will have to differentiate themselves from this app.

By: Peter T.

Peter T. — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:47:00 +0000

For what it’s worth, here’s the feature request I put in at On One software: http://www.ononesoftware.com/blog/dslr-camera-remote-feature-requests/#comment-1140