Bad equipment you should not buy!
Discussion
i just purchased the vello Bluetooth shutter boss and felt the need to warn others off it.
Just incase anyone here was tempted to purchase, what seems on the face of it, a superb bit of kit, please think twice.
The idea behind it is sound, use your smart phone to control your camera via Bluetooth.
Rather than mess about with a little controller and fiddly buttons in the dark, utalise the mini computer and bright colourful screen of your smart phone to remote release and time lapse shoots.
So what's wrong?
It starts off all good, a quick download from the App Store, followed by a couple of simple instructions and your connected to the remote device scwered onto the hot shoe connection of your camera ( I have a canon eos 6D).
But it's the rest were it falls down so much
To start, to confirm connection a bright green led flashes on and off continuously at the front of the device on the camera, I can only imagine you get a nice green glow from your night shot with this!
To start and stop the functions it works by sliding your finger on the app as opposed to a more precise push on / off method
The intervalometer can only be started by inputting the date and exact time( to the second!) you want to start, there is no 'just start' function at all.
But the main reason it's going back is that the bulb setting has no timer on it, you have to use your watch to see how long your exposure is!
Seriously, they had an iPhone computer power to work with and they didn't fit a timer to it?
Insane
Anyway, that's my pathetic rant, if you want a remote for your camera, don't buy this.
I can only hope they will upgrade the app as the idea is great, but the execution is awful, how this got passed such an established brands testing I don't know!
Just incase anyone here was tempted to purchase, what seems on the face of it, a superb bit of kit, please think twice.
The idea behind it is sound, use your smart phone to control your camera via Bluetooth.
Rather than mess about with a little controller and fiddly buttons in the dark, utalise the mini computer and bright colourful screen of your smart phone to remote release and time lapse shoots.
So what's wrong?
It starts off all good, a quick download from the App Store, followed by a couple of simple instructions and your connected to the remote device scwered onto the hot shoe connection of your camera ( I have a canon eos 6D).
But it's the rest were it falls down so much
To start, to confirm connection a bright green led flashes on and off continuously at the front of the device on the camera, I can only imagine you get a nice green glow from your night shot with this!
To start and stop the functions it works by sliding your finger on the app as opposed to a more precise push on / off method
The intervalometer can only be started by inputting the date and exact time( to the second!) you want to start, there is no 'just start' function at all.
But the main reason it's going back is that the bulb setting has no timer on it, you have to use your watch to see how long your exposure is!
Seriously, they had an iPhone computer power to work with and they didn't fit a timer to it?
Insane
Anyway, that's my pathetic rant, if you want a remote for your camera, don't buy this.
I can only hope they will upgrade the app as the idea is great, but the execution is awful, how this got passed such an established brands testing I don't know!
satans worm said:
pidsy said:
I've got a Camfi.
same idea - great bit of kit.
Looks great, and does alot more than the vello, does the bulb setting have a time? same idea - great bit of kit.
BUT it also mentions Bulb mode is currently only supported on Canon cameras.
Have to say I'd not heard of the Camfi, but on the back of this thread, one's now on its way to me. Fortunately given the point above, I have Canon kit. Thanks Pidsy
Sorry - I've been away.
The CamFi is actually very good at what it does. The app and pairing part can be a bit fiddly but I think that's been sorted with a recent update. Don't expect glamorous packaging or much in the way of English instruction but it does what it's meant to.
I use mine alongside my iPad and it does make life easier.
The CamFi is actually very good at what it does. The app and pairing part can be a bit fiddly but I think that's been sorted with a recent update. Don't expect glamorous packaging or much in the way of English instruction but it does what it's meant to.
I use mine alongside my iPad and it does make life easier.
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