iPhone with MFDB?

I thought you might be interested in a post from Ted Chavalas of Panoscan on the Betterlight forum. Note that it is about using an iPhone to control the Betterlight, but maybe some of you can figure out a few more tricks.

(Posted with the permission of Ted Chavalas and Mike Collette)

QUOTE
Greetings,

Recently we had some Panoscan customers asking for a way to operate
ViewFinder from a remote control. After running into some dead ends
with various Wireless USB hubs on Mac... We discovered that remote
VNC screen sharing works surprisingly well with an iPhone. (Or iPod
Touch) You get full control of your camera's computer via WiFi.

You need to enable screen sharing on your Mac or PC. You also need a
VNC client for the iPhone. I recommend Mocha VNC. ($5.95) VNC Lite
also works OK... but you can't rotate the screen on the free version.
Your computer will also need a WiFi transceiver. (Most Laptop
machines have it built in.) You can download the VNC client from the
iTunes application store.

I made a demo video of what it looks like to run your Better Light
camera on an iPhone.

See: http://www.panoscan.com/VFiPhone.mov

Sincerely,

Ted Chavalas
Panoscan Inc.
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Cheers,
Kumar

Kumar Brahmajosyula said:

I thought you might be interested in a post from Ted Chavalas of Panoscan on the Betterlight forum. Note that it is about using an iPhone to control the Betterlight, but maybe some of you can figure out a few more tricks.

(Posted with the permission of Ted Chavalas and Mike Collette)

QUOTE
Greetings,

Recently we had some Panoscan customers asking for a way to operate
ViewFinder from a remote control. After running into some dead ends
with various Wireless USB hubs on Mac... We discovered that remote
VNC screen sharing works surprisingly well with an iPhone. (Or iPod
Touch) You get full control of your camera's computer via WiFi.

You need to enable screen sharing on your Mac or PC. You also need a
VNC client for the iPhone. I recommend Mocha VNC. ($5.95) VNC Lite
also works OK... but you can't rotate the screen on the free version.
Your computer will also need a WiFi transceiver. (Most Laptop
machines have it built in.) You can download the VNC client from the
iTunes application store.

I made a demo video of what it looks like to run your Better Light
camera on an iPhone.

Click to expand...

Hi Kumar, thanks so much for sharing that. No doubt we'll have a whole slew of new apps for the iphone that even Steve didn't think of!

So we should be able to do that with the Eos utility for tethered shooting of Canon cameras using the iphone instead of the computer. But what is the advantage when one can look at the laptop screen which is larger?

Asher

Well, it might prevent the digital tech from feeling suffocated by the crowd around the monitor!

Cheers,
Kumar

Thanks, Kumar,

You make a powerful point that is easily overlooked!

Now can you set this up for a Canon DSLR!

Asher

Well, I don't have an iPhone, so I wouldn't know. So long as the camera is tethered, I think it should work, because the connection is between the iPhone and the computer. The VNC Lite program is free, so perhaps someone can test it.

Cheers,
Kumar