Sometimes something so wacky comes along that ceases being stupid and just turns in to cool.
A company named onOne has submitted an iPhone and iPod ouch application to Apple for approval that will allow you to control your Canon EOS DSLR camera from your favorite device. Well, okay, it isn’t QUITE that straight forward.
- You need either an iPhone or an iPod Touch
- You need a supported Canon EOS DSLR
- A laptop or desktop computer running the free companion DSLR Remote Server software
- A USB cable to connect your supported Canon EOS DSLR camera to the computer running the free server software
Once released, the application will come in two versions: the $1.99 Lite version will only control the shutter release, and the pro version for $9.99 will control multiple functions.
As someone who used to play around with photography as a hobby when I was younger, it sounds cool, and would be especially useful to someone like me who could never hold a lens study to save his life, but it has a few too many steps for my taste. Any time you add another component to a set up, you just add that many more chances for something to fail. This sounds cool and useful, but it also sounds like something that could frustrate you fairly quickly when one little part doesn’t work they way it’s supposed to.
