Mark III WFT-E2A Wireless

[JasonSTL739]

Does anyone know where I can actually *purchase* the WFT-E2A wireless device for my Mark III.

Nobody has it in stock - and I need one, like yesterday.

[JasonSTL739]

Does anyone know where I can actually *purchase* the WFT-E2A wireless device for my Mark III.

Nobody has it in stock - and I need one, like yesterday.

Finally scored one of these from "onecall" - I have to say it is a freaking awesome accessory. Highly recommended.

It will transfer RAW's direct to your workstation, and provided you have a decent signal it keeps up pretty well. It took under 5 minutes to transfer about 55 10MB files - it is about one 10MB RAW per 5 seconds.

I was concerned it wouldn't be very fast.

[CyberDyneSystems]

I'd love to try one out, but I don't think it fits my shooting needs or budget,. still, I can certainly see the advantage in many applications.
Glad you found one, despite the silence after your request :)

[JasonSTL739]

I'd love to try one out, but I don't think it fits my shooting needs or budget,. still, I can certainly see the advantage in many applications.
Glad you found one, despite the silence after your request :)

I just can't wait to use it at a club event where I have control of the slideshow running on the monitors all over the club. Stream the nightlife pics straight to the crowd. Personally I think once a few people figure it out they will go crazy and be that much more silly for the camera... (larger venue in mind)

[JasonSTL739]

Finally scored one of these from "onecall" - I have to say it is a freaking awesome accessory. Highly recommended.

It will transfer RAW's direct to your workstation, and provided you have a decent signal it keeps up pretty well. It took under 5 minutes to transfer about 55 10MB files - it is about one 10MB RAW per 5 seconds.

I was concerned it wouldn't be very fast.

One thing I don't like BTW for anyone who searchs about this thing - it does slow down transfers from the buffer to the CF - as the wireless is reading the RAW's from the CF card while the camera is also trying to write to the card (or it is writing to both at the same time - and thus "waits" on the wireless.

But, it still is pretty close to where it needs to be to not interfere with shooting. Especially with model/glamour shoots I will sometimes take a whole bunch of pics real fast when she is "on"

[Palladium]

Here's a thought - you shoot both raw and jpeg (small jpegs) to seperate cards - you only wireless transfer the jpegs to your wireless setup (laptop ) (eg. Adobe Bridge's folder that is currently set to display the images in the folder as a slideshow. I think Bridge will update the folder with the new images as they arrive. You'll have your laptop set to display out to your monitors.

I have no direct experience if this setup will work but IMHO that would be really cool.

Issues:

does the wireless transfer lock the folder where the images are transfering to

does your slideshow software update the folder where it's getting it's data from.

By shooting both raw and jpeg you have the ability to print later with edits and your only have to transfer the jpeg.

[Palladium]

Are you using a slideshow software that reads the raw's ?

[JasonSTL739]

Here's a thought - you shoot both raw and jpeg (small jpegs) to seperate cards - you only wireless transfer the jpegs to your wireless setup (laptop ) (eg. Adobe Bridge's folder that is currently set to display the images in the folder as a slideshow. I think Bridge will update the folder with the new images as they arrive. You'll have your laptop set to display out to your monitors.

I have no direct experience if this setup will work but IMHO that would be really cool.

Issues:

does the wireless transfer lock the folder where the images are transfering to

does your slideshow software update the folder where it's getting it's data from.

By shooting both raw and jpeg you have the ability to print later with edits and your only have to transfer the jpeg.

Are you using a slideshow software that reads the raw's ?

That is easily done - the JPEG only can be transferred across the wire, and the RAW stays on the CF. The options with what is saved local versus remote is pretty flexible.

Doesn't lock the folder - it uses FTP software on the computer to transfer. At least in my case the FTP software isn't doing anything like that.

For the slideshow software - I wouldn't have every image go up, you'd get too much junk. I was thinking two laptops with an assistant on one of them. Lightroom on the main laptop and they could pick images from the ones that were landing and shuttle it over to another laptop's network shared folder where the slideshow pulls its base images from. That way you could get the nice video-like stuff with our logo, the club's logo, prior stuff, and then current images that are live. It would push through a base video and then each roll or two would have some new images at the end of it.

[Palladium]

That is easily done - the JPEG only can be transferred across the wire, and the RAW stays on the CF. The options with what is saved local versus remote is pretty flexible.

Doesn't lock the folder - it uses FTP software on the computer to transfer. At least in my case the FTP software isn't doing anything like that.

For the slideshow software - I wouldn't have every image go up, you'd get too much junk. I was thinking two laptops with an assistant on one of them. Lightroom on the main laptop and they could pick images from the ones that were landing and shuttle it over to another laptop's network shared folder where the slideshow pulls its base images from. That way you could get the nice video-like stuff with our logo, the club's logo, prior stuff, and then current images that are live. It would push through a base video and then each roll or two would have some new images at the end of it.

it's the begining of a new industry - getting in on the ground floor. I like it.

For typical widescreen monitors in clubs what resolution are you sending to the screens? or is lightroom sending out a 4x3 ratio image and how is that displayed on the widescreen monitors?

I think I'm going to go clubbing tonight ;)

[JasonSTL739]

it's the begining of a new industry - getting in on the ground floor. I like it.

For typical widescreen monitors in clubs what resolution are you sending to the screens? or is lightroom sending out a 4x3 ratio image and how is that displayed on the widescreen monitors?

I think I'm going to go clubbing tonight ;)

Only need 72dpi images - a quick preset export in lightroom makes quick work of it. Also can just crop to fit properly right there in lightrom pre-export.