Description
+++ NEW: SUPPORT FOR SAMSUNGS BUILT-IN IR SENDER (IR BLASTER) +++Your smartphone is always with you, so why carry unnecessary stuff? Let your smartphone in combination with DSLR Remote be a remote control, a timer or a HDR controller to your digital reflex camera.
Whether via infrared, by wire or via Bluetooth (new!), DSLR Remote enables you to take timer controlled exposure series (e.g. for time lapse), long time exposures or exposure sequences in the context of High Dynamik Range photography. If you are not using a device with a supported built-in IR sender (see below) all you need is a small, inexpensive and easy to build hardware, which is then connected to the ear phone jack of your smartphone (and a commercially available Bluetooth stereo headset if you want remote control via Bluetooth). You will find detailed instructions on how to build the required hardware on the authors website (http://bitshift.funpic.de).
Possible functions (among others) are:
1. Simple Remote control
2. Delayed Shots
3. Series of shots with fixed interval (e.g for time lapse)
4. Bulb exposures
5. Combinations from 2., 3. and 4.
6. High-Dynamic-Range-Sequences (HDR)
7. Time controlled HDR-Sequences (Combination of Timer and HDR)
8. Triggering of shots or start of Timer or HDR sequences by the ambient light sensor on your smartphone (keyword: light barrier)
9. Triggering of shots or start of Timer or HDR sequences by the internal or an external microphone
In various models Canon seems to limit the precision of the bulb mode to one second. So HDR exposures below 1 second and/or with a fraction of a second (as 1.5 sec) are rounded to the full second. DSLR Remote can't do anything about that! Reported models so far: 400D, 500D, 550D, 5D II.
Using a built-in IR sender:
Please choose Infrared as remote type and Samsung IR Blaster as the hardware. DSLR Remote should work with the built-in IR sender of the followig devices:
Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 plus
Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 plus
Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0
Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1
Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 (confirmed)
Samsung Galaxy S4 (see below)
Unfortunately, there seems to be an issue with the combination Galaxy S4 / Canon cameras! Sponsored S4 needed for debugging ;-)
Using DSLR Remote hardware:
Caution: a few smartphone types do not output high enough volume on their ear phone jack to make the infrared harware work properly. In addition a few camera types (e.g. Canon EOS 550D) are still not properly controlled remotely via the infrared receiver. In that case you might want to choose the cable control (transistors) instead.
If it doesn't work for you, feel free to contact the author, instead of voting one star. Contact information is given on the said website (http://bitshift.funpic.de).
Darko
Jun 22, 2012 8:36:26 PM
Works great with Nikon D80.
Baiuin0
Jun 12, 2012 6:04:59 PM
Excellent app Works perfect on HTC Desire connected to Canon 600D via S-cable
Andre
May 25, 2012 7:06:52 AM
??? Didn't work for me.
xposhr
May 15, 2012 6:04:10 AM
No Razr :/ Thought Id try this out on my Razr. No go, too bad guess it was fun making the emitter though :)
vamapaull
May 13, 2012 1:14:44 PM
Samsung Galaxy S This is a great app. It works perfectly on my Eboda tablet, but for some reason the infrared setup don't work on my Samsung Galaxy S (it's the first Galaxy S made by Samsung).
Eric
May 9, 2012 12:33:04 AM
Very good app the emitter is not too hard to make, very good app, works well with pentax k-x and HTC panache (mytouch 4g)
Francisco
Apr 23, 2012 4:23:26 AM
Doesn't work Good app, but does not work with HTC Desire S and Nikon D60. Desire S has not got infrared port.
aarkays
Apr 14, 2012 4:24:27 PM
Only for pentax Only for pentax
Lex
Apr 5, 2012 2:59:33 PM
love the idea, will try later after making the cable
Marten
Apr 1, 2012 4:48:41 PM
Works with nikon d5100 and galaxy s The app works with the d5100 and a samsung galaxy s. Too bad the nikon does not support more functions like the panasonic does. Still have to figure out the hdr setting, seems to take only one normal picture....