DSLRemote for iPad coming this November

[Omaroo]

For users of DSLRemote who have been using it on iPhone, this (depending on the camera model) has been a pretty neat app. It gives you the ability to remotely control your DSLR via WiFi and a Windows-based laptop connected to the camera via USB running the server application. Given that I normally run a laptop on-mount anyway to control guiding operations, this scenario works well.

Now the iPad version is imminent. Bigger display, live view, video mode, burst mode, auto bracketing, intervalometer...it's all there now.

I can't wait for this edition. :thumbsup:

http://www.ononesoftware.com/products/dslr-camera-remote/

[h0ughy]

i saw the version on the phone at astrofest as demonstraited by Acropolite - looked pretty cool

[acropolite]

Ditto, the app was fantastic on the ipod, just a little short on intervalometer and maximum exposure functions, if they fix those problems it will be a must have. If I'm not mistaken, DSLR remote and the other apps related to astronomy will also work on the Ipod touch, a relatively inexpensive way to utilise these fantastic tools although the GPS and accelerometer capabilities would be non existent.

[Omaroo]

Canon Compatibility

DSLR Camera Remote supports the following Canon EOS digital SLR cameras. Please note that the available features vary from camera to camera. These are limitations of the physical hardware or the SDK from the manufacturer.

Camera Connection Type / LiveView / Bulb / Burst Mode

EOS 1D Mark II Firewire / No / No / No
EOS 1Ds Mark II Firewire / No / No / No
EOS 1D Mark IIn Firewire / No / No / No
EOS Rebel XT/350D/Kiss Digital N USB - PC Connection / No / No / No
EOS 20D USB - PC Connection / No / NovNo
EOS 5D USB - PC Connection / No / No / No
EOS Rebel XTi/400D/Kiss Digital X USB - Automatic / No / No / No
EOS Rebel XSi/450D/Kiss X2 USB - Automatic / Yes / Yes / No
EOS Rebel XS/1000D/Kiss F USB - Automatic / Yes / Yes / No
EOS Rebel T1i/500D/Kiss X3 USB - Automatic / Yes with AF / Yes / Yes
EOS Rebel T2i/550D/Kiss X4 USB - Automatic / Yes with AF / Yes / Yes
EOS 30D USB - Print/PC / No / No / No
EOS 40D USB - Automatic / Yes / Yes / No
EOS 50D USB - Automatic / Yes with AF / Yes / Yes
EOS 5D Mark II USB - Automatic / Yes with AF / Yes / Yes
EOS 1D Mark III USB - Automatic / Yes / Yes / No
EOS 1Ds Mark III USB - Automatic / Yes / Yes / No
EOS 1D Mark IV USB - Automatic / Yes / Yes / Yes
EOS 7D USB - Automatic / Yes / Yes / Yes


Nikon Compatibility

DSLR Camera Remote supports the following Nikon DSLR cameras. Please note that the available features vary from camera to camera. These are limitations of the physical hardware or the SDK from the manufacturer.

Camera Connection Type / LiveView / Bulb / Burst Mode
D40 USB - PTP / No / No / Yes
D40x USB - PTP / No / No / Yes
D60 USB - Automatic / No / No / Yes
D80 USB - PTP / No / No / Yes
D90 USB - Automatic / Yes with AF / No / Yes
D5000 USB - Automatic / Yes with AF / No / Yes
D200 USB - PTP / No / No / Yes
D300 USB - MTP/PTP / Yes with AF / No / Yes
D300s USB - Automatic / Yes with AF / No / Yes
D700 USB - Automatic / Yes with AF / No / Yes
D3 USB - MTP/PTP / Yes with AF / No / Yes
D3x USB - MTP/PTP / Yes with AF / No / Yes
D3s USB - MTP/PTP / Yes / No / Yes

Note: Nikon cameras do not support Bulb shooting via DSLR Camera Remote. Bulb images must be triggered via the camera.

Tip: Burst mode on Nikon cameras shoot a series of images quickly. You set the number of images, up to the buffer size of the camera.

[acropolite]

The limitation I found was the inability to automatically time long exposures other than those provided by the Canon software.

From memory, I couldn't get anything over 30 seconds without going to Bulb mode and watching the on screen timer then manually closing the shutter at the appropriate time.

Intervalometer simply replicated the EOS utility options and I couldn't get any longer than 30 second exposures using the intervalometer.

Am I right in assuming that the same limitation is still going to be there in the iPad version, surely they can write something within the app to do multiple exposures using the Bulb setting on the camera?

[Omaroo]

Now delayed until December "sometime". I suspect that iOS 4.2 might not have been on their radar.