ioShutter lets you control your DSLR using your iPhone
By Ben Coxworth
May 28, 2012
ioShutter turns an iDevice into a remote shutter control (Photo: Photojojo)
Image Gallery (7 images)It looks like Triggertrap is getting some competition. Like that product, ioShutter is a remote-control app/device that allows you to control how your DSLR takes photos, via your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. The app allows a camera (which is hard-wired to the phone) to be triggered in a number of ways.
In its single shot mode, ioShutter can be used to take photos simply by touching a control on the iDevice’s screen. However, it also incorporates a motor drive function, timer, time lapse, sound trigger, movement trigger, and bulb mode (where the shutter remains open as long as the user dictates). Those modes can even be mixed, so you could for instance arrange for the camera to start taking shots in time lapse mode, but only once the app is triggered by a sound.
The system currently works with Canon cameras, along with some models of Samsung, Hasseblad and Pentax. A version for Nikon should be coming soon.
The app works with iPhone models 3 and up, 4th-generation iPod touch, and all iPads. Prospective users can download it for free from the App Store, to check out its features in more detail. If you want to actually use it to take pictures, however, you will require the dedicated camera cord. Although prices currently aren’t available on the product website, that cord is currently selling at Photojojo for US$70 ... which is significantly more expensive than the Triggertrap offering.
Source: ioShutter via Photojojo
-
ioShutter Shutter Release Cable for Canon N3 Connector DSLR Cameras from iPhone works with EOS 5D Mark II III, 50D, 60D, 7D, 1D, 1Ds III IV, 1D X
-
ioShutter Shutter Release Cable for Canon (E3) Connector DSLR Cameras from your iPhone works with Canon G12, G1 X, Rebel XS, T2i, T3, T3i, Pentax & Samsung
An experienced freelance writer, videographer and television producer, Ben's interest in all forms of innovation is particularly fanatical when it comes to human-powered transportation, film-making gear, environmentally-friendly technologies and anything that's designed to go underwater. He lives in Edmonton, Alberta, where he spends a lot of time going over the handlebars of his mountain bike, hanging out in off-leash parks, and wishing the Pacific Ocean wasn't so far away. All articles by Ben Coxworth
I would like to see the camera's POV on the iPhone while controlling the camera.
John Hagen-Brenner30th May, 2012 @ 04:14 pm PDT
Or Login with Facebook:
Just enter your friends and your email address into the form below
For multiple addresses, separate each with a comma
Privacy is safe with us because we have a strict privacy policy.




(which is hard-wired to the phone)??? Why not wireless via Bluetooth?
Rexmano29th May, 2012 @ 01:14 pm PDT