Perhaps the developers could allow the possibility of calibrating our lens/camera combinations somehow - for the future possibly. It would be a lot nicer if you could pick the far and near point and then how many steps between but I think this is a limitation of the camera rather than the CamRanger device so we’ll forgive it. You focus on the nearest point and then tell it whether to take small, medium or large steps further away from this point and how many of those steps to take. The HDR exposure bracketing you would expect to work in the same way bracketing on a camera would work but it doesn’t - it starts at the darkest exposure and steps more open or slower.įor the focus bracketing the steps are a little more confusing and possibly not very intuitive. The only thing that wasn’t immediately obvious was how the focus and exposure bracketing worked so we’ll talk about them separately. Once set up the whole device worked just as expected. Some setting is obviously blocking it - I think it’s probably the live view focus mode. Initially, we couldn’t get our device to work with focus bracketing on Robin Hudson's Canon 5D3 but once we reset the camera settings to defaults it all worked fine. We found setting up the device incredibly easy apart from one problem. We’ve made a short video of the device being used on an iPad and an iPhone which is intended to show the way the device is used, it isn’t high enough resolution to show the quality but that will come in our follow up review where we use the CamRanger in anger in Iceland.
#HELICON REMOTE IPAD SERIAL NUMBER#
Once this is done you can connect to your CamRanger’s wireless signal using the serial number based wireless password provided and you’re ready to go.
#HELICON REMOTE IPAD INSTALL#
The first thing to do is install your iPad or iPhone app and then register your CamRanger device - a step to stop other people hijacking your camranger I imagine - which you do by entering a serial number into your iPhone or iPad app (serial number is under the battery). The USB connection plugs into your camera via the usual cable - they have the option of supplying the special ‘large’ usb connector cable for Nikon cameras - and that’s it as far as the camera is concerned. What do you get in the package? Well essentially it’s a small battery powered box that has ethernet and usb connections. This explains the excellent signal that the device can give which we will come onto later. They developed the device to ‘scratch their own itch’ in taking pictures of themselves kayaking where obviously remote operation is pretty difficult. Well we might just have seen the democratisation of this idea with a US company called CamRanger, essentially a home brewed effort by a husband and wife team Dave and Melissa Pawlowski. This is particularly true for landscape photographers where the taking and composing of the image is usually a more sedate affair allowing for meticulous attention to detail. Ever since the retina iPhone and especially the iPad came out people have wondered about (lusted after!) the ability to tie them directly to the preview, or preferably the live view, of their cameras.
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