Canon C300 Wireless iPad Control with WFT-E6A

I didn’t get any photos of it because I didn’t see it in action in the exhibition hall but there was a quick look at wireless control of the Canon C300 on an iPad. According to the brochure I picked up this is accomplished with the WFT-E6A Wireless Transmitter.

The EOS C300 and C300 PL come preconfigured so that camera settings can be viewed and securely controlled on third-party devices with common web browsers….With the WFT-E6A module, the camera can be controlled from up to 150 feet away over an 80211b/g/n/z wireless network. The WFT-E6A lets you start and stop recording and also adjust focus, white balance, gain and other parameters as well as adjust the aperture of Canon EF lenses.

This is going to be a handy tool for filmmakers.

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Teradek Cube at PhotoCine Expo

The wireless gear and gadget category is really heating up at next weekends PhotoCine Expo with the addition of the Teradek Cube. The Cube is a small hot shoe or rail mounted device that broadcasts high quality video remotely.

From the Cube web page:

Cube™ is the first of it’s kind, a camera-mounted HD network video encoder. Cube™ captures live video directly from the camera, encodes it using advanced video compression and streams it over ethernet or WiFi up to 1080p@23.98/24/25Hz , 1080i @ 50/59.94/60Hz, 720p@50/59.94/60Hz. The ability to stream HD video over IP from such a small device is unprecedented and provides users with a wealth of previously unimagined applications. Now anyone with a HD video camera can broadcast live video, all that is needed is a WiFi access point to a LAN, WAN, or broadband Internet connection. If WiFi is unavailable Cube™ features a 10/100 ethernet port.

Being able to send full HD video to an iPad sounds great to me. The Cube can also be used to stream live broadcasts over the internet. Stay tuned, we might try that out at the show.

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