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The ZGR-1 app seems pretty limited, too, but it’s hard to tell since it only connects to cameras I don’t have. I downloaded the ZGR-1 app – it looks like a bad hack job – especially the translation of the manaual (as they called it) from Chinese to English. If you are a Nikon shooter, there is the curiously named Zesty or ZGR-1 ($70). What is enticing about the CamRanger is that it says you don’t need to keep your i-device connected after you set up the shooting program – that would be very nice! I learned that there is another device like the Promote Control that uses WiFi to allow extended control of the camera through the USB link: the CamRanger ($299). Being this is a dedicated device, you may not have to worry about choosing between a timelapse and and important phone call. And it *might* have a method to be dormant for a while and start running the configured program in the future… however it can never be as clever as the Trigger Trap which is able to take advantage of all the other goodies on a smart phone like GPS location, tilt/shift, on board cameras, and WiFi. In various modes it can do timelapse, star trail and “bulb ramping”. It can also control the focus to do focus stacking. The Promote can: shoot realextended HDR shots, not only long-exposure HDR. The Promote Control screen is reminiscent of those multi line text pagers of yesteryear.īecause it has direct camera control the Promote Control can perform several features that the others on this list can not touch.
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They can present the data more intelligently and allow more features through upgrade than the few buttons available on the Promote Control. The smart phone based products clearly have a leg up. Watching their videos and following the many modes and button presses made my head hurt. But they bill themselves mostly as an HDR device. Indeed it is the only device I investigated that can control the camera – using a USB connection – not just the shutter. As a dedicated device the Promote Control is almost the most versatile. The Promote Control is the unit I don’t own and its ranking is based on three things: the cost (high), the features (many) and the usability. If you’d rather that I just “cut to the chase” and tell you which of these devices I recommend… Here is my ranking from best to so so:
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What I am hinting at is that you may want to consider the cost of an iPhone or Android phone to drive these devices.
That’s unfortunate since I have an old iPhone 3G which I would gladly convert for use only as a camera control device. Neither supports an iPhone 3G – each requires at least an iPhone 3Gs, 4G, 4Gs or 5. Both the Trigger Happy and the Trigger Trap are picky about what phones they support. It is also a little unfair to compare the two smart phone based products on price alone since they require a smart phone to operate them. In my opinion the somewhat unreliable cheap Shoot Intervalometer is worth the price as a sacrificial device for use in a harsh environment but not something I would recommend for a critical shoot.
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$30: Trigger Trap dongle and free application for iPhone and Android.$50: Trigger Happy dongle and free application for iPhone (Android available, too).In this article I will compare four devices I have with one I don’t own. The devices I am comparing are all for use with a Canon 5D Mark II but most have variations that make them suitable for wider use with other cameras and brands. Fancy intervalometers have many other important and useful features including those described in that aforementioned article. Reduced to its simplest form, an intervalometer is a device that electronically presses your shutter button and releases it.
No? Ok, you can read about them in this moldy old article. My readers will already know about intervalometers. Welcome to another investigative report on… devices to control cameras.
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