Bluetooth cameras
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- monkeyshine
Hi. I'm working on a proof of concept and am wondering if a bluetooth enabled camera can efficiently download photos to a tablet or laptop? Would this take all day?
- Morning_star0
No and yes. I hope that helps.
(it depends on the camera, the device your sending it too and the quality of the wifi signal)
- Morning_star0
FWIW, photographers often want RAW image files and therefore any compression, reformatting etc will compromise the potential quality of the image. Just something to consider.
- monkeyshine0
Thanks. This is more for in the field workers, enabling them to quickly capture images that gets transferred to a reporting app.
- http://www.eyefi.com… <- that might be good enough to solve your problems.zarkonite
- utopian0
I built an iPhone app interface for a Zillow "like" company last year that used third party free software that did something like this. The software integrated with the camera (via UI), stored images in a library and then (auto/manually) loaded the images online to a virtual gallery where contractors could review the job site, progress, etc...
- monkeyshine0
That's interesting, utopian. Was the camera a phone camera or digital?
- formed0
Don't a lot do this already?
- monkeyshine0
Yes, there are bluetooth / wifi digital cameras. I'm wondering how efficient they are loading to another device (for bluetooth in particular).
- monNom0
does it have to be bluetooth?
You can get an SD card with built in wifi: http://www.eyefi.com/
and maybe bluetooth as well,or some of the samsung P&S cameras will do this (http://www.samsung.com/us/photo... either over wifi, or via NFC. you can also do a remote viewfinder/remote shutter, but I think that might be NFC only.
- vaxorcist0
I have only seen wifi-enabled cards and NFC on samsung devices, my guess is that bluetooth is either too slow or too likely to randomly disconnect.
My NIkons both have 2 card slots.,.... I use one for raw files, one for a wifi enabled card, which then I run an app on my samsung phone that allows me to browse photos on the card, and download one by one to my phone and email to a client for feedback,etc..
This works pretty well, (I now use an "ez-share" card, used to use EYE-FI, but had issues with that one....) but the technology still seems a bit kludgy, often have to reconnect, and /or babysit the process more than I'd like....
- lvl_130
from what i know (and others have said above) wi-fi and bluetooth transfer via camera is pretty slow and spotty. wife works at gap corp and all photographers are always tethered. I actually recently just asked her this same question last weekend. seems like the technology still has a long way to go to become reliable (especially when dealing with RAW and larger image sizes...especially when they are shooting very rapidly.
- monkeyshine0
Thanks for the input, everyone. Crazy how technology is still so slow on this front. I'm thinking that smart phone + voice user interface is the way to go.