Canon W-E1 Wifi Adaptor Confirmed

[George D.]

"Wi-Fi functions: Connection to smartphones: (images can be viewed, controlled and received), remote control of the camera using smartphone is possible"...

Remote control also means shutter control? Then Canon RC-6 wireless remote control (cost abt. USD 20) becomes redundant perhaps even the remote switches RS-xx for close-up and long time exposures (USD 40 max.), timer controller TC-xx (USD 135), the 100m range LC-5. If so, this smartphone thing appears attractive (if you got a smartphone). What's its range not clear though.

 

[LoneRider]

What complexity does Dual memory card add?

If you chip set only supports a single card, then you have to create a second interface using another part. Which of course requires are driver for that other interface part, and of course you need to communicate to that other interface part.

All supposition, but the lines have to go somewhere. The CFast bus might be able to have more than one device on the bus, but I am pretty sure SD and CF cards can not share the control lines with more than one card.

tom

 

[jeffa4444]

Quite a few pros use the 6D as a 2nd or 3rd body, some for the fact it has both wi-if and GPS built-in. However ANY full frame camera north of £1,000 should have a 2nd card slot even if they are both SD but that's not the case. Canon has taken a different route to Nikon both the D610 and the D750 are two slot cameras and that enables immediate switch over and I would like to see Canon adopt this for the 6D MKII. Canon has made one tiny firmware change to the 6D and none so far to the 5DS / 5DSr so it's not true to say they enhance all cameras like they did with the 7D and 5D MKIII through firmware.
I do know I miss wi-if on the 5DS which I use a lot on the 6D, the 5DS is a great landscape camera let down by not being able to use your iPhone or iPad as a 2nd screen off camera in live view. Would I use the SD slot for Canon W-E1? Hell yes at worst it offers the same number of slots as the 6D, at best I get remote live view and transfer to an iPad to review shots on a larger screen in the field and maintain the 50MP advantage of the 5DS.

 

[privatebydesign]

I just don't see the clamouring for twin card slots, and never have even though I use cameras with dual slots. I rarely use both unless I am shooting via CamRanger then shoot jpeg to SD just to get the fastest download.

I have had far fewer card issues than film issues and they never made a camera that shot to two rolls of film at the same time.

 

[rrcphoto]

Canon branded EYE-FI cards and new firmware that allows this functionality. WOW if this is all that Canon is planning, they are really blowing it. Start listening to Maeda-san and innovate please!

No one in Japan will buy eye-fi, as Flash Air by Toshiba are super cheap already.

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Cry much?
I don't think anyone else is assuming this is all that is happening from Canon for photokina.
Also of it allows for full or partial remote control, it's not just an eyefi card.

This looks like Pentax's flucard.

 

[unfocused]

I have had far fewer card issues than film issues and they never made a camera that shot to two rolls of film at the same time.

I'd like to see a retro camera where:

• If you accidentally pop open the card slot cover it erases the entire card;
• You put the card in the camera but if you forget to check a "record" light during exposures the card might not be recording;
• Shutter release without card is the only option, and the camera has no playback function so you can't verify if it is recording;
• You have to pick the ISO of the card when you put it in the camera and you can't change it once it's in there.

I sure miss film – NOT

 

[kevl]

I just don't see the clamouring for twin card slots, and never have even though I use cameras with dual slots. I rarely use both unless I am shooting via CamRanger then shoot jpeg to SD just to get the fastest download.

I have had far fewer card issues than film issues and they never made a camera that shot to two rolls of film at the same time.

I was shooting an event recently with my new 7DII and my 5DIII. It was the first event with the 7D having always used a consumer level camera as my second body. I checked how full my CF Card was by selecting the format card menu. When I went to exit I hit "OK" instead of "Cancel"... before my eyes 100 photos of awards & speakers disappeared from my memory card.

I had to go over to the client to tell them I had just deleted the images I was paid to shoot. As I was telling him I remembered that this is the 7DII and I had put two cards in it.... with massive relief I told him I had not lost the images after all. My pride took a hit but my wallet didn't.

Also, film tends to be physically damaged... memory cards fail instantly and with no warning or indication. These are vital differences.

 

[Loswr]

I have had far fewer card issues than film issues and they never made a camera that shot to two rolls of film at the same time.

At least not a dedicated one. But with a little ingenuity...

http://petapixel.com/2011/02/15/shooting-with-two-35mm-films-in-a-medium-format-camera/

 

[Michael Clark]

I just don't see the clamouring for twin card slots, and never have even though I use cameras with dual slots. I rarely use both unless I am shooting via CamRanger then shoot jpeg to SD just to get the fastest download.

I have had far fewer card issues than film issues and they never made a camera that shot to two rolls of film at the same time.

I was shooting an event recently with my new 7DII and my 5DIII. It was the first event with the 7D having always used a consumer level camera as my second body. I checked how full my CF Card was by selecting the format card menu. When I went to exit I hit "OK" instead of "Cancel"... before my eyes 100 photos of awards & speakers disappeared from my memory card.

I had to go over to the client to tell them I had just deleted the images I was paid to shoot. As I was telling him I remembered that this is the 7DII and I had put two cards in it.... with massive relief I told him I had not lost the images after all. My pride took a hit but my wallet didn't.

Also, film tends to be physically damaged... memory cards fail instantly and with no warning or indication. These are vital differences.

If that had been the only card with your images you could still almost certainly have recovered them. A quick format only erases the file directory, not the actual data. If you didn't write anything else to the card then data recovery applications such as Recuva, Lexar's Image Rescue, or Transcend's RecoveRx would likely have recovered all of your files.

 

[AshtonNekolah]

sounds good to me!

 

[Chaitanya]

What complexity does Dual memory card add?

If you chip set only supports a single card, then you have to create a second interface using another part. Which of course requires are driver for that other interface part, and of course you need to communicate to that other interface part.

All supposition, but the lines have to go somewhere. The CFast bus might be able to have more than one device on the bus, but I am pretty sure SD and CF cards can not share the control lines with more than one card.

tom

My comment was reply to a comment regarding ease of use, not the electronic and associated software design part. Also having written code for custom hw for signal simulators, software code doesnt add too much resources to development.

 

[LoneRider]

What complexity does Dual memory card add?

If you chip set only supports a single card, then you have to create a second interface using another part. Which of course requires are driver for that other interface part, and of course you need to communicate to that other interface part.

All supposition, but the lines have to go somewhere. The CFast bus might be able to have more than one device on the bus, but I am pretty sure SD and CF cards can not share the control lines with more than one card.

tom

My comment was reply to a comment regarding ease of use, not the electronic and associated software design part. Also having written code for custom hw for signal simulators, software code doesnt add too much resources to development.

Sorry, and on the users side it should not, if the user is capable of operating a DSLR, they should br able to handle a second slot. As far as the software itself, depends on how diabolical the HW designer is I've lived on both sides of that one.

 

[Chaitanya]

What complexity does Dual memory card add?

If you chip set only supports a single card, then you have to create a second interface using another part. Which of course requires are driver for that other interface part, and of course you need to communicate to that other interface part.

All supposition, but the lines have to go somewhere. The CFast bus might be able to have more than one device on the bus, but I am pretty sure SD and CF cards can not share the control lines with more than one card.

tom

My comment was reply to a comment regarding ease of use, not the electronic and associated software design part. Also having written code for custom hw for signal simulators, software code doesnt add too much resources to development.

Sorry, and on the users side it should not, if the user is capable of operating a DSLR, they should br able to handle a second slot. As far as the software itself, depends on how diabolical the HW designer is I've lived on both sides of that one.

I just learned Computer sciences for my engineering degree, only learned basics of electronics and signal processing. I was much more interested in networks and network security.

 

[JonAustin]

It's interesting to observe how much wailing, moaning, griping, whining and acrimony some rumors can foment. Here's an announcement about an inexpensive little option that promises new capabilities, and from some of the posts, you would think it'll cause those individuals' worlds to literally end.

I'm personally just hoping that it will support the 5D III with remote capability using the EOS Utility. I don't need a lot of range, I just want to be able to control the camera from my laptop without having to be tethered with a USB cable.

If that turns out to be the case, I'll buy two. (I'm almost certain I'll buy a 2nd 5D III after the 5D IV is released.)

 

[privatebydesign]

It's interesting to observe how much wailing, moaning, griping, whining and acrimony some rumors can foment. Here's an announcement about an inexpensive little option that promises new capabilities, and from some of the posts, you would think it'll cause those individuals' worlds to literally end.

I'm personally just hoping that it will support the 5D III with remote capability using the EOS Utility. I don't need a lot of range, I just want to be able to control the camera from my laptop without having to be tethered with a USB cable.

If that turns out to be the case, I'll buy two. (I'm almost certain I'll buy a 2nd 5D III after the 5D IV is released.)

I have a similar sentiment. It seems so many can't be happy unless they have something to be unhappy about.

I am always amazed at the inconsistency of photographers in their clamour for wireless flash systems,with many citing the absence of wires as the main benefit and yet they have an irresistible draw to tethered shooting via a fancy USB or ethernet cable!