Wirelessly tether any camera to your desktop with Air Direct

[@diyphotography]

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[@ShaiYammanee]

I can’t wait to get my hands on this. I’ve been working in making my studio completely “cable-less”. This will be the finishing touch to making this a reality.

[@TheSignOfJonah]

Same here brother. Same here.

[@opqrst7]

Wondering how it does perform compare to the Camranger 2?

[@2n1pac]

can it be connected to two devices at same time. means 2 laptops or laptop and iPad Pro etc

[@TC-cd5sm]

I shoot a lot of events at my job (internal staff photographer) and this setup would be nice if I was able to connect two DSLR's into one laptop imported via Lightroom. It would save so much time transferring photos via the card reader. When I'm done shooting, previews already generated and I could immediately start culling.

[@eavesphoto]

Better sales pitch would’ve been to have the image properly exposed. Especially after opening up the camera settings and have an correct exposure applied. Two questions, is that a 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz transmitter on top of the camera? And what camera was she shooting with? I want to know approximate how large the Raw file was that was being transmitted.

[@diyphotography]

We were talking about Sony a73 size files. If I recall correctly you can choose the frequencies. And I totally agree about the wasted demo opportunity

[@GaabrielArchAngel]

They said 5 GHz in the video.

[@cooloox]

That JPEG image didn't actually transfer across to the computer very quickly at all, especially compared to say, an EOS R sending an image to a smartphone and the EOS R has a lot more megapixels than that old Rebel camera. The raw transfer must be very slow. Also, as many of us use a wireless trigger on our hotshoes, this thing hanging off the side of the camera is going to make the camera bulky and possibly awkward to use when shifting from landscape to portrait. I wish you'd used a wireless flash trigger and taken a few images in a row to show how this thing really performs in a real world situation.

[@davidjb9199]

"Now we finally have wireless"???? This has been around for some time (CamRanger), even if a bit slow. Someone should do a video comparing the top wireless systems in a head-to-head show down.

[@janstege3081]

Normally I shoot in the studio with flash. Where do I put mi trigger?

[@diyphotography]

the unit does not have to mount on the hot shoe. So you could, for example, attach it to a magic ark connected to a tripod socket. (though I'll admit that they could have come up with a better solution.

[@joeldiramon]

Can you save to the sd card while using it ?

[@pcuser4652]

Can it tether to a 55 inch TV ?

[@robertcooper8250]

I found that the battery dosen't last long while shooting tethered.

[@burritobrosvideos8060]

If that's in the hotshot where do I put my flash trigger? Fail

[@mortezakhobzi3651]

Ur trigger needs to have a hot or cold shoe built on top of it!

[@andreykovpak5968]

а куда вставлять радиосинхронизатор вспышки, если этот девайс так "мило" занял его место?

[@BolzGue]

The Air Direct is supposed to connect with lightroom and such automatically. Unfortunately that's not the case. I also tried the setup multipe times with Nikon Camera Control. Nope! So it’s useless with my Mac Book Pro. The Air Direct works (on and off) with my iPad Pro. However even when using the 5GHz WLan, the transfer is super slow. In the demos they obviously work with tiny files and no color dept. Transfering a 45 megapixel file takes 10 sec and more. So working in fashion or even portraits is not recommended.

[@cooloox]

Thanks for the info, I guessed that would be the case. I shoot Canon in raw+jpg and I set the JPEG images to one of the small JPEG settings (approx. 6MP). All images remain in the camera, only the small JPEGs go to the computer for a quick check how things are looking. The jpgs, being small, come up almost instantly.

[@Artvialight]

Dude it took 5 seconds for the RAW photo to show up on this crop sensor Rebel camera. My clients would walk out of the studio or location having to wait 7 seconds a shot. Tether tools you need to work on making a decent fucking cable before you try to do anything.

[@f4ust85]

"5-7 seconds, depending on your filesize", in reality if you take photography seriously and have any recent professional 50+ megapixel camera, its 10, 12, 15. I wonder if I live long enough to see a WORKING solution to this, that doesnt take up my hotshoe, doesnt involve freaking USB cables, doesnt crash during every single session and most importantly doesnt make me wait for 10 seconds after every single click! What a waste of everybodys time this is...

[@FabiusMaximus1000]

Why don't people watch or listen to the video? You do not have to use this mounted on your camera.

[@cooloox]

So where do you suggest we place it while mounting a trigger on our hotshoes? You have to hold the camera and be able to switch camera orientation. Something else hanging off your camera is going to get messy. Why didn't they "show" it mounted elsewhere knowing full well it's where it will have to be for most photographers?

[@FabiusMaximus1000]

@@cooloox If only you watch the video around 3:40 you would learn. Why do I know about it by watching the same video?

[@mortezakhobzi3651]

@@cooloox u need to have a trigger with hot or cold shoe built on top

[@kamilmajdanski]

5-7sek RAW :(

[@diyphotography]

yes, but jpg comes in pretty fast for initial view. RAW si slow, even over cable.

[@llamacide73]

@@diyphotography I shoot RAW all the time over cable for many of my client shoots... and it works pretty fast.

[@diyphotography]

Good to know!

[@shadir1978]

t's west of time and money , it's not working in my mac or i mac, and it's so slow in my iPad pro i don't recommend to buy it it and how come you dont inform us that its not working with the mac ????

[@jbburayag1299]

"jpeg first...around 1...1 1/2 sec...then raw...depends on the size of your raw file...around 5 to 7 secs..." seriously?? holy christ! qDslrDashboard is completely free! straight forward to use... oh my... oh my...

[@mortezakhobzi3651]

Qdslr is the worst, never works properly, always crashes or causes my camera to crash! I am using a short USB c to usb c port, searched every nook and crony for that cable!

[@KeithDouglasgoggle]

Bullshit, does not work to with Pentax 645z

[@kibbsnowden6893]

They are not arability any more...

[@JoseSorianoPhotography]

Useless unless you are a natural light photographer. This is a device for studio most of the time and not having it easy to put your radio transmitter is a no go

[@johnnykempo]

What do you mean?

[@martinangst1764]

concerned about hot-shoe mounting? It seems like an accessory will allow mounting onto L-brackets.

[@FabiusMaximus1000]

You can mount it elsewhere. Don't have to use the hotshoe.