{"id":16590,"date":"2010-09-07T15:47:46","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T22:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/?p=2733"},"modified":"2010-09-07T15:47:46","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T22:47:46","slug":"waiting-for-wireless-tethering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/07\/waiting-for-wireless-tethering\/","title":{"rendered":"Waiting for wireless tethering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Could photographers be clearer in wanting their images sent wirelessly &amp; immediately to iPads and similar tablets, turning these devices into extensions of the back of the camera? \u00a0I seriously doubt it.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment you can kinda-sorta do some interesting things, as long as you have a traditional Mac\/PC in the loop. \u00a0Here&#8217;s a 3-minute demo from Brent Pearson:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/13798170?portrait=0\" width=\"426\" height=\"240\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>More <a href=\"http:\/\/brentbat.wordpress.com\/2010\/08\/02\/ipad\/\">details about the setup<\/a> are on Brent&#8217;s site. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottkelby.com\/blog\/2010\/archives\/11743\">Via<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Relying a regular computer largely defeats the purpose of using the tablet, of course. \u00a0Photogs want to be shooting with a tablet-wielding assistant on the red carpet; checking lighting on set by reviewing raw image data; and just <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chimping\">chimping<\/a> on vacation. \u00a0The whole point is to avoid lugging a 5-8lb. laptop &amp; to carry a ~1lb tablet instead.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s hoping that device makers are working on a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Apple_Bonjour\">Bonjour<\/a>-like solution that&#8217;ll let cameras, computers, phones, and other devices in close proximity locate one another, then exchange data (stills, live video streams, etc.). \u00a0If nothing else I&#8217;d stop wishing that my iPad included a camera for capturing raw materials for sketching, as I&#8217;d instead just use my phone as an extension of the tablet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could photographers be clearer in wanting their images sent wirelessly &amp; immediately to iPads and similar tablets, turning these devices into extensions of the back of the camera? \u00a0I seriously doubt it. At the moment you can kinda-sorta do some interesting things, as long as you have a traditional Mac\/PC in the loop. \u00a0Here&#8217;s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,3,51],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16590"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}