I have been experimenting with wifi remote shooting with my EOS 5D MklV.
Firstly, I tried using the Canon Connect app on my iPhone, and while it worked, there was too much of a delay between pressing the shutter release button on the iPhone, and releasing the shutter on the camera. Fine for still shots, but not for skittish birds.
I then used the EOS Utility 3.0 software to control the camera via wifi, from a laptop.
With the camera at the far end of the garden, the connection was a bit flaky. The router (BT Home Hub 6) is upstairs, at the front of the house, and gives excellent coverage throughout the house, but the camera's wifi struggled to reach it with a reliable signal from the end of the garden.
So, I invested in a Netgear wifi extender (£20), set this up in a rear bedroom, and 'married' it to the main router. This worked perfectly, with near instantaneous firing of the camera.
The camera was set up on a tripod, at the bottom of the garden, about 10ft from one of feeders. The wifi extender, indoors as decribed above, was around 40ft from the camera
The lens was the EF 100-400L Mkll, set at 400mm, and f/6.3.
I was sat indoors with the laptop, watching from the lounge for a bird to land on the feeder, which normally has frequent visitors. However, "sods law" came into play, and I waited a good 30 mins before a 'customer' arrived.
This Robin obliged, so 'hit' the shutter release button on the laptop, and grabbed this shot.
I'm not sure how much use I will make of this method, but it was an interesting exercise, which I thought I would share with you.
Keep in mind that this 49.7kb image is highly compressed from the original 7mb full frame image, but this post is more about the capture method, than the image quality.
Firstly, I tried using the Canon Connect app on my iPhone, and while it worked, there was too much of a delay between pressing the shutter release button on the iPhone, and releasing the shutter on the camera. Fine for still shots, but not for skittish birds.
I then used the EOS Utility 3.0 software to control the camera via wifi, from a laptop.
With the camera at the far end of the garden, the connection was a bit flaky. The router (BT Home Hub 6) is upstairs, at the front of the house, and gives excellent coverage throughout the house, but the camera's wifi struggled to reach it with a reliable signal from the end of the garden.
So, I invested in a Netgear wifi extender (£20), set this up in a rear bedroom, and 'married' it to the main router. This worked perfectly, with near instantaneous firing of the camera.
The camera was set up on a tripod, at the bottom of the garden, about 10ft from one of feeders. The wifi extender, indoors as decribed above, was around 40ft from the camera
The lens was the EF 100-400L Mkll, set at 400mm, and f/6.3.
I was sat indoors with the laptop, watching from the lounge for a bird to land on the feeder, which normally has frequent visitors. However, "sods law" came into play, and I waited a good 30 mins before a 'customer' arrived.
This Robin obliged, so 'hit' the shutter release button on the laptop, and grabbed this shot.
I'm not sure how much use I will make of this method, but it was an interesting exercise, which I thought I would share with you.
Keep in mind that this 49.7kb image is highly compressed from the original 7mb full frame image, but this post is more about the capture method, than the image quality.
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