A new Kick-starter campaign from San Antonio-based
Ubertronix, Inc. aims to turn your Android Smartphone into a wireless activator
for DSLR. The mission follows others that offer similar devices, but this one,
the brainchild of Josiah Leverich, who founded Ubertronix a little over a year
ago to build camera remote hardware, has some unique elements, including a way
to use your Smartphone as a lightning sensor for capturing remarkable storm
photos.
Ubertronix began as a way for Leverich to build and market
his Strike Finder camera trigger product, which is a dedicated piece of
hardware that features built-in sensors to help capturing high-speed
photography, and lightning specifically. The ShutterBox is an extension of that
tech, which features a hot shoe-mounted receiver box that communicates
wirelessly with your Android smartphone via Bluetooth. It uses the phone’s
built-in sensors for triggering automatic shutter activation, including light
sensors for lightning, as well as motion detection for capturing wildlife or
other movement-based events.
shutterboxThe ShutterBox can also be used as a standard
wireless remote for triggering single shots, time lapse, bursts of exposures
and more. It’s even designed to be able to work with multiple slave units for
capture across multiple cameras at once, or for triggering remote flashes in a
studio setting.
The idea following ShutterBox is to leverage the devices
already in users’ hands instead of making them invest in and learn new
proprietary hardware. The ShutterBox receiver will still cost you $199 as a
pre-order (or $249 retail), but since a lot of its features are app-based,
there’s ample potential for later capability improvements and expansion.
(src
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Darrell Etherington
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I want to use MIOPS as camera trigger. Do you have any advice on this? It has positive comments as a camera trigger.
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