I finally received the Nikon WU-1b wireless mobile adapter for the Nikon D600. This wireless adapter is designed for two functions: it can facilitate review of your images using an Android or iOS smartphone, and it tin help yous take shots with remote live view. I was really excited at the prospect of beingness able to utilise my phone as an external alive view monitor to take shots at unusual angles that may even exist impossible without remote live view.
Hit the jump to find out my preliminary review of how information technology performs.
x/31/12 UPDATE: Correction re AF Expanse Mode - Y'all tin use Face up Priority AF Surface area Mode.
x/29/12 UPDATE: Added new section re compatibility
My get-go impression was that the adapter was smaller than I expected. I thought information technology would be slightly smaller than an SD bill of fare. It'due south much smaller than that, and is closer to the size of a mini-SD card.
The package comes in a blister pack that includes not just the adapter simply too a small case that tin be attached to your camera strap. At that place is too a lanyard that tin tether the adapter to your photographic camera strap even while inside the small case.
COMPATIBILITY
Not alliPhone/iOS and Android devices tin can use the Wireless Mobile Utility Adapter app.
- iPad i - works simply requires iOS five.1. The app is non native to iPad therefore it won't fill the screen.
- iPad 3 running iOS 6 - the app doesn't show upwardly in the App Store no matter what I search.
- iPhone iv running iOS 6 - the app shows up in the App Store and works. This is the phone I used for this review.
- iPhone 4S running iOS 6 - the app doesn't evidence upward in the App Shop no affair what I search.
- My married woman's low-end Andoid phone - the Google Play store said her phone wasn't compatible.
Suggestion: Before buying this, cheque if your phone tin download the app first.
SETTING Up
The documentation wasn't very detailed, just information technology was like shooting fish in a barrel to setup.
1. Download the gratuitous app to your phone.
two. Connect the adapter to the D600'south mini-USB port and turn on the photographic camera. The adapter will power on.
3. Turn on the phone'south wi-fi and search for the ad hoc wireless network created by the adapter. Optional: establish a password for the wireless adapter's network. My phone memorized the password so I didn't have to re-enter it every time I wanted to connect to the adapter.
That'due south it. You're gear up to use it.
USAGE
1. Connect the wireless adapter to the camera.
While the adapter is attached, you lot cannot playback photos on the camera and yous cannot use Live View manner. Pressing the playback or alive view button has no result.
2. Connect your phone to the wireless adapter's network.
You connect to the network using your phone the same as you would for whatever wi-fi network.
: when one device is already continued to the wireless adapter, no other device tin can connect to that same adapter.
3. Launch the app.
four. In the principal menu, choose: Take Photos or View Photos or Settings
TAKING PHOTOS
- Upon choosing "Accept Photos," the camera's live view photo automatically activates. Y'all hear the mirror lift immediately, though it takes nearly a 2d for the live view feed to outset showing up on my phone. Once I see the live view feed, the refresh rate is very responsive, as if you lot are looking at the alive view at the back of the camera.
- When the remote alive view is active, the photographic camera is locked (as though information technology is shooting tethered). However, from the shooting screen, you can bring up the quick option bill of fare and activate the photographic camera shooting way, which will allow yous to shoot with the camera. (The function of the telephone would so be to review the images.)
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| The quick pick card, with the pick to shoot with the camera |
- Although flipping the
phone on its side will rotate the screen just like most other apps, the alive view feed'due south orientation ever remains in landscape mode, regardless of the camera's orientation. If the photographic camera is on portrait it is a bit tricky to adapt the camera.
- You will see the shutter speed, aperture, number of shots left and battery level. Tin't come across ISO. Y'all cannot change exposure settings. However, exposure is not locked. If you are in an autoexposure mode (P, A, S, Automobile, etc.) the exposure will vary as the scene changes.
- One cool feature is that y'all can tap anywhere on the phone's screen to choose the AF signal. This is way faster than using the joystick. The AF area mode
depends on the Alive View setting for the Live View style that is currently selected (Photo or Movie as the case may exist). The AF mode is either AF-South or AF-F depending on your Live View setting. You cannot zoom in the image to select the AF point more than precisely. Still, if y'all rotate the phone to the landscape orientation the image is larger.
- Tap the "shutter" on the phone screen to take the shot.
- If the Alive View selector is on Alive View Movie mode, then pressing the shutter volition accept a photograph with sixteen:9 ratio.
- By default, phone volition download the preview. (This option can be disabled.)
- The review of the shot is kind of boring. The workaround is to enable Raw + JPEG and choose pocket-size bones JPEG. With these settings, the paradigm shows upward after about half-dozen to 8 seconds. By comparison, if I use a large basic JPEG, information technology takes about 25 seconds. If I use raw, it takes almost 40 seconds to meet the shot.
- The preview has several limits. First, you can zoom in merely the preview is of a limited resolution (it seems it is the same resolution every bit the LCD screen). The resolution is the same regardless of the JPEG size chosen, making it difficult to employ it for confirming focus. The download preview also does not have automobile-rotation for the orientation, so viewing a portrait image tin can be a piddling confusing. You too tin can't encounter the EXIF data.
- If preview download is enabled, the iv most recent shots volition show up on the lesser of the screen (like to Lightroom's filmstrip). If the phone is in landscape orientation, the filmstrip won't evidence up. Note: going back to the main menu will clear the filmstrip.
- When y'all tap on a shot on the filmstrip you tin bring upwardly additional options: e-mailing, tweeting, or sending to another app. These options show upwardly merely in this mode, not the viewing photos mode (weird). On my phone I only saw two of the apps (I have several). I don't know how to add more of the apps.
- The disadvantage of turning on the download is that y'all have to await for the download to finish before taking another shot. That's ok when you have unlimited time. Simply if in that location are people waiting (east.g. group shot, or your friends/family waiting for yous to finish taking your photo) it's not applied, and in that location's no way to skip the download temporarily without changing the settings.
VIEWING PHOTOS
From the main menu, you can select "View Photos." In this mode you lot can see the shots on the D600'due south memory carte du jour, regardless of whether it was taken with remote live view. You'll encounter thumbnails of the photos (JPEGs appear separately from NEFs and NEFs are labeled as such). You tin can select photos and then download them to your Photos app for editing, sharing, using as a wallpaper, etc.
Downloading photos takes longer than I expected.
SETTINGS
From the main carte, yous also have the choice to alter settings. Here you can ready the wireless network password, and the power-off timer for the adapter.
One useful function in the Settings bill of fare is that you tin can synchronize photographic camera clock with telephone clock. This is smashing if you take several cameras and you lot desire them to exist in sync with each other.
Another potentially useful feature is that the operation of the wireless mode tin be tied to the power level of the camera and/or the telephone. You can set the minimum amount of ability for the photographic camera and for the telephone. If the battery levels are below your threshold, the remote functions won't work and you'll become a warning nearly the bombardment level. This volition help you avoid accidentally draining either your telephone or the photographic camera while playing around with the wireless manner.
SAMPLES - TBA
I haven't taken real world shots yet with this adapter. I'll update this post when I practise.
Here is a test shot. I took this while holding the photographic camera at artillery length. The alive view was in movie mode, hence the 16:9 ratio. The live view focus was on face priority with AF-F. Equally you tin run into the focus is exactly on my eyes.
Hither is a casual group shot that I took (note: photomerged very rapidly in Photoshop). The D600 was on confront priority. The focus was on the faces on the front end row. The focus was spot-on.
Resources
Wireless Mobile Adapter Utility instructions here.
Source: http://betterfamilyphotos.blogspot.com/2012/10/nikon-wu-1b-wireless-mobile-adapter-for.html
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