Hi Dennis
The developer of DSLR Remote has previously stated that an untethered solution isn't possible unless Canon themselves provide for iOS development in their SDK, which they don't at this stage,.
If they do, then it will be the first app off the blocks to do so I suspect.
http://www.ononesoftware.com/blog/20...pad/#more-2504
Quote:
"Will the iPad allow me to eliminate the computer from the equation and connect the iPad directly to the camera?"
The short answer is no, you still need to tether the camera to the computer. The longer answer is that while there is the Apple iPad Camera Connection Kit, it only solves one portion of the connection problem. This adapter neatly solves connecting the iPad to USB to mini USB connection issue, but it doesn’t get around how our product was initially designed using the supported software developer kits (or SDKs) that are provided by Canon and Nikon.
Those SDKs, provided by Canon and Nikon, are only available in a format that runs on a Macintosh or Windows based computer. They are not provided in a programming language that is easily portable to the iPhone OS, the Android OS, etc, etc.. What we did was to embed those SDKs into our DSLR Camera Remote Server and then made sure that we put the code in place to have those SDKs (which are completely different between Canon and Nikon and even between camera models from the same manufacturer) talk seamlessly to the iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch and your tethered camera.
In order to eliminate the computer in the middle from the setup, we either have to wait for Canon or Nikon to make a version of their SDK available that runs on the iPhone OS {4} or we have to recreate it ourselves. This is something we’ve thought about doing, but obviously isn’t something we’ve started doing yet. I’m not ruling it out, but it’s no small undertaking so we aren’t taking the effort lightly.
So at the end of the day, for the foreseeable future, you will need to continue to have a laptop or desktop computer running the DSLR Camera Remote Server along with our DSLR Camera Remote app running on your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch. We know that you want us to get the app to the point where the computer isn’t needed and we want the same thing. I just don’t know when it will happen. In the meantime, it continues to work as it always has.
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