The day they announced the iPad, This was the first thing that popped into my head to do with it. Somebody finally figured this out:
http://www.padgadget.com/2010/08/08/dslr-tethered-photo-shooting-on-your-ipad/
Anybody given it a try yet?
Wireless Tethered Shooting for the iPad
(6 posts) (5 voices)-
Posted 2 years ago #
-
Realy interesting post, thanks for sharing.
Posted 2 years ago # -
better does not need a router!
Posted 2 years ago # -
EyeFi now makes an iPhone app that will allow you to connect their card directly to the iPhone/iPad without the need to jail break the iPad. Will be looking into this in a couple months.
Posted 2 years ago # -
FYI, I finally got around to trying this yesterday... it works!
The good: It does just what it says it does. No chords or internet needed.
The Bad: Setup isn't very intuitive, and there aren't a lot of threads on the web to walk you through it. I also wouldn't bother trying to do this with a D40. It's power settings are configured such that its not a workable solution.
The Ugly: SLOW... don't plan on using this with your D3X shooting large RAW files. Set to Fine Large JPEG, my D90's shots took about 1 min to upload. Set to Small basic and its only about 5 seconds, but at that quality, I may as well use my iphone.
I'm experimenting with a few setup tweaks. For instance, I discovered that a lot of the slowdown was because the eye-fi card was trying to geotag the photo. Even so, I think this tech may be about a generation ahead of its time. I don't know that wi-fi has the bandwidth to get us the speed we really need, and my guess is that the iPad could use a bit more horse power processing this stuff.
Posted 2 years ago # -
I saw a review for this. Thanks for the advice about the set up process. I was thinking about using this setup for models to see what is going on during the shoot to see if it is what they are looking for their portfolio. I know I could use the lcd but the screen is so much bigger on a ipad
Posted 2 years ago #
Reply
You must log in to post.
