Android: DSLR Controller

If you are a photographer and gets to have a device Android 3.1 or 2.3.4 versions of the OS, then you're ready to go to a very interesting integration for the control of an SLR camera with their mobile devices, Android. Please add support for USB devices in this latest version of Android, so basically there is now a beta version of an application to do almost everything you do on your Canon EOS digital SLR remotely on your Android device to hit only through a USB connection.

Description Chainfire DSLR Controller application in the Android Market, DSLR driver allows you to access the following:

Live View

Autofocus (Live View tap)

Manual focus mode auto-focus

Histogram

Zoom control

Grid

Bulb capture

Continuous Capture

You also have control over various parameters:

Shutter speed

Opening

Exposure Compensation and support

Flash Compensation

ISO Sensitivity

Auto-Focus mode

Focus and zoom (tap and hold the Live View)

Picture Style

Drive Mode

White Balance

Color temperature

Auto Lighting Optimizer

Metering Mode

These controls depend on what the configuration of the digital SLR camera, as fully manual, aperture priority, shutter priority, and other modes. Finally, they may trigger or capture images on your Android device. So far these are the test devices to support the application and then the compatibility of the USB device could not be specified by the manufacturer:

Samsung Galaxy S II (KG firmware 2.3.4 or later and a USB host. EBay search for "i9100 USB host")

Motorola Xoom (requires a USB Host. EBay search for "USB host Xoom")

Acer A500 Iconia

Asus transformer (connected to the dock)

Toshiba Thrive

So, this is a model Canon DSLR have been tested to work with the application: 600D, 550D, 60D, 50D, 7D, 5D, 1D Mark II and Mark IV.

Unfortunately, because this application is currently in beta, you might run into some problems that usually forms of communication errors and crashes, the developer of this application could only try to "pull the camera off and on, re- start the Android device, and then try again. "