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EOS 1300D how connect wifi to

heapug — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 17:40:37 GMT

I have just bought an EOS 1300D, and installed the EOS utility on my Windows 10 PC.

I bought this camera believing that I would be able to tethered it to a PC for remote shooting via WiFi, but to my dismay the only WiFi connect options are:

* Tansfer images to other camera * Connect to smartphone * Print * Upload to Web Service.

The other two options that I had expected are not present, including * Connect to PC, which is what I need.

USB tethering is not an option for me because the camera has to be in a different room.

Any ideas how to get around this? Would it be possible to fool the camera into thinking my PC was a phone?

If so, is there any software could I run on the PC that would provide tethered shooting facilities similar to (or hopefully better than...) the EOS Utility...?

Re: EOS 1300D how connect wifi to

kvbarkley — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 18:22:15 GMT

You might try an EyeFi card:

Re: EOS 1300D how connect wifi to

heapug — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 22:09:52 GMT

@ kvbarkley -- thanks for your very quick response to my question. If my problem had been transferring images from the camera to the PC, your suggestion might certainly help. But my end-of-seesion routine is to swap the battery for a freshly charged one, take out the card, stuff it into the reader on the PC, dump all the RAW session to my NAS drive and reformat the card before replacing it.

No, unfortunately, as my post mentioned, I need the WiFi for tethered shooting, with the benefit of a nice 4K display to get a better idea of what the camera sees, while sitting in a comfy seat maybe in the next room, setting aperture, exposure, focus points etc. with a mouse instead of crouching over a potty little sub-megapixel display and stabbing at the camera buttons. Try that in portrait mode, only a metre or so from the floor, and your knees and neck won't last long....

I guess I'll just have to get a nice big tablet -- maybe a secondhand Nexus 10 or something -- but I'll miss the big monitor.; unless there's anyone out there who can suggest how I might fool the camera into thinking it was communicating with a phone... or something else....

Re: EOS 1300D how connect wifi to

Waddizzle — Fri, 12 Jan 2018 00:23:39 GMT

@heapug wrote:
@ kvbarkley -- thanks for your very quick response to my question. If my problem had been transferring images from the camera to the PC, your suggestion might certainly help. But my end-of-seesion routine is to swap the battery for a freshly charged one, take out the card, stuff it into the reader on the PC, dump all the RAW session to my NAS drive and reformat the card before replacing it.

No, unfortunately, as my post mentioned, I need the WiFi for tethered shooting, with the benefit of a nice 4K display to get a better idea of what the camera sees, while sitting in a comfy seat maybe in the next room, setting aperture, exposure, focus points etc. with a mouse instead of crouching over a potty little sub-megapixel display and stabbing at the camera buttons. Try that in portrait mode, only a metre or so from the floor, and your knees and neck won't last long....

I guess I'll just have to get a nice big tablet -- maybe a secondhand Nexus 10 or something -- but I'll miss the big monitor.; unless there's anyone out there who can suggest how I might fool the camera into thinking it was communicating with a phone... or something else....

With a T6, the problem is probably the RAW file format. It probably works fine with JPEGs.