The WFT-E2A demystified: Wireless FTP (Mac OS X 10.5)

milkandtwo wrote in post #9769181
wow!

amazing post, the only information i could find on the whole of the bloody internet for exactly what i need to do, am on a job tomorrow so will try it out and let you know how it goes...

once again, thankyou for sharing your wisdom so clearly and concisely!

You are very welcome. I'm glad you found it useful.

And welcome to the forum as well.

Amazing!!!!
I spent so much time for nothing, I did not find you on Google at 1st and then I discovered this forum and 20 minutes later it works fine with my 1Ds MarkIII.
Thanks sooooo much!
Mac

Mac Arthur wrote in post #9866977
Amazing!!!!
I spent so much time for nothing, I did not find you on Google at 1st and then I discovered this forum and 20 minutes later it works fine with my 1Ds MarkIII.
Thanks sooooo much!
Mac

You're welcome. And welcome to the forum.

I bought my WFT-E5 at the same time as my camera solely to be able to Live View control / EOS Utility my new 7D for taking wildlife photos at some distance from the camera without using a wire. And I’m grateful for this thread.

So far all I’ve been able to do is b***** up my connection between my home network and my MacBook Pro - now thankfully restored. But I have hopes that with the instruction at the beginning of this thread, I will be able to [PTP?] between the two. Otherwise I will have wasted my money on the WFT-E5!

So far the 7D WFT-E5 seems to want to connect up with my local router. Not what I want.

Hopefully it is possible to set things up so I can duly switch easily between the local network and taking the Mac out with the Canon without jumping through all those hoops more than the once.

Certainly the minimal instruction that comes with the WFT-E5 is pretty useless and Canon UK support didn’t even know what battery the unit took - if any - and suggested it was powered by the camera. [In fact it uses it’s own (not supplied) LP-E6 like the 7D.]

Again, many thanks for the instructions.

I am appalled this is still so complex! God knows if people ever manage to do this from their iPhones as touted by Canon in their promotional videos.

maybe a good surprise with Snow and Air updates...I'll see tonight..

yep!! working; eos utility is connecting with camera.....finally

It works PTP for me for about 20 files and then disconnects and refuses to reconnect unless I reboot the my Mac Book.

studiophoto1 wrote in post #9926352
yep!! working; eos utility is connecting with camera.....finally

Alright! Haven't done any extensive testing but PTP modes seems to be working fine now. It's about time.

Thanks for the heads-up.

for some odd reason when following all the step, i'm still getting error code 41, I tried everything, i'm running on OS X 10.6.

I got my WFT-E2A a few months ago when we were going to be in an area of the world where getting memory cards was not all that easy. I purchased the WFT and bought 4 - 640 GB Seagate External Drives for storage space.
I found your post to be of great help to easily configure the device and get up and running quickly. Now it is not a problem and this was one of the best add ons I have have purchased for field work and one which I find using everywhere now.
Thanks for taking the time to post this for the members.

Rob573 wrote in post #13668451
I got my WFT-E2A a few months ago when we were going to be in an area of the world where getting memory cards was not all that easy. I purchased the WFT and bought 4 - 604GB Seagate External Drives for storage space.
I found your post to be of great help to easily configure the device and get up and running quickly. Now it is not a problem and this was one of the best add ons I have have purchased for field work and one which I find using everywhere now.
Thanks for taking the time to post this for the members.

You're welcome. I'm glad you found this thread useful.

I had managed to set my system up and everything was working until yesterday!
I am using a MacBook Pro with Snow Leopard and set it up to use the EOS method of connection (the new PTP). I followed your instructions and manually assigned an iP4 address which works great until I want to use Airport to connect to the internet, I then need to go back into sys prefs/network/my home network/advanced etc and reassign it to use DHCP rather than the manual address for the Canon wireless network and vice versa to go back to the Canon system. What have I done wrong?

kevthewev wrote in post #13923467
I had managed to set my system up and everything was working until yesterday!
I am using a MacBook Pro with Snow Leopard and set it up to use the EOS method of connection (the new PTP). I followed your instructions and manually assigned an iP4 address which works great until I want to use Airport to connect to the internet, I then need to go back into sys prefs/network/my home network/advanced etc and reassign it to use DHCP rather than the manual address for the Canon wireless network and vice versa to go back to the Canon system. What have I done wrong?

The ad hoc connection is great if you want the WFT to communicate directly with the computer out in the field or on location. However, if you want to use the WFT in a studio environment or on location where there is already a network in place, then it's more convenient to use the Infrastructure connection method. On the computer, the IP can still be assigned manually or with "DHCP Manual", as long as the IP selected is within the IP range of the network. And on the WTF, select Infrastructure connection method instead of Ad hoc. The rest of the set up should essentially be the same.

All sorted now. Thanks PacAce you are a star!

Simon_Gardner wrote in post #9902489
I am appalled this is still so complex! God knows if people ever manage to do this from their iPhones as touted by Canon in their promotional videos.

This is easy to set-up but the functionality is not as good as eos utility with the camera connected to a wireless network

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