I tried time lapse shooting with "SmartTrigger" which can remotely control digital camera with smartphone

By using it together with the iPhone it will be possible to wirelessly operate a digital single lens camera etc. "SmartTrigger"I used a time lapse movie that I can not take usually, so I introduce the method and the movie that I was able to take together.

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This is actually using "SmartTrigger"GH 2It is time lapse movie made from photos taken with.

Taking full HD time lapse movies at JR Osaka station


◆ Body Review

This is the "SmartTrigger" package.


When opening it there are a main body and instructions in it.


When you put it in the palm of your hand, "SmartTrigger" is quite small.


The body moves with a single AAA battery.


"SmartTrigger" The operation method of the main body is simple, there are only two of the power / Bluetooth connection button and the shutter button.


When you press and hold the power button for about 3 seconds, the red lamp lights up and the power turns on.


There is a cable insertion jack on the bottom of the main unit to insert "SmartTrigger" and a release cable for connecting the camera.


It is necessary to purchase the release cable to be used by each company's digital camera, this one for Panasonic digital single lens reflex camera.


Insert the release cable here.


Let's make sure that it is inserted securely so that "SmartTrigger" works well when communicating with the iPhone.


If you connect the release cable also to the camera side, the connection between "SmartTrigger" and the camera is successfully completed.


Next, make settings on the application side.

◆ Setting method

First of all, in order to be able to use "SmartTrigger" for iPhone, download and set up the special application of "SmartTrigger" with iPhone.

Launch it after downloading the application.


Let's wait until the end as the new firmware will be updated at the first startup.


Then turn on the camera and connect the camera to "SmartTrigger".


Connect the camera and "SmartTrigger" with a release cable and turn on both of them.


Since "SmartTrigger" and the iPhone are connected by Bluetooth, change it to on if Bluetooth setting of iPhone is turned off.


Then turn on the power of "SmartTrigger" and select "SmartTrigger" letter displayed on the connected iPhone screen from the list.


Since Bluetooth pairing is required, "pairing" is selected.


Setting is complete with this.


Let's try using the SmartTrigger and the iPhone to see if it is possible to shoot digital single lens reflex cameras remotely.


Even if you are away from the camera you can easily take pictures with the iPhone!


◆ I took a picture

There are four shooting modes of "SmartTrigger": "Remote Shooting" "Jump Shooting" "Timer Shooting" "Timelapse". For this time, I will choose "Timelapse" mode and take a picture for time lapse movies.

In time lapse mode, you set these three, "number of shots to set" how many pictures to shoot, "interval time" to decide the interval to release the shutter, and "shutter time" from the detailed setting. In this example, we set the number of shots to be 1000, the interval time to 5 seconds and the shutter time to 3 seconds.


Next we will move on to setting the camera body. In order not to change the focus of the camera and the color of the photograph during the photographing with the time lapse, changing the shooting mode to manual and fixing the setting is OK.


This time I wanted to finally create a time lapse movie with HD size of 1280 x 720, so set to "1920 x 1080" at a single full large HD size.


When you are ready, just tap "Start" to start shooting, then wait as it is, so it's easy.


Once shooting is complete and you can connect the photos you can complete the time lapse movie.

Taking full HD time lapse movies at JR Osaka station


From here we can check if it is a corresponding modelAnd the price is 7499 yen only for the main body, and the price of the corresponding release cable is added to this. If it is a new digital single lens camera or the like, it has a coordination function with the smartphone from the beginning, but if it is not so, it is quite useful, especially because it is Bluetooth rather than infrared, so there is no directivity and you can shoot freely It is a considerable advantage. Although it is currently only for iPhone applications,We are also preparing an application for Android... apparently ...