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Hands On With The CamRanger At Macworld
Mar 11, 2025
Erfon takes a look at the CamRanger, a cool little device for remotely controlling your Canon or Nikon DSLR.
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hey guys a from Elijah Gadget Hunter
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here at macw World 2013 with culac I'm a
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photographer you may not know that about
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me and I found a really cool gadget for
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those of you that are also photographers
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it's called the cam Ranger I'm here with
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the owner founder developer indeed do it
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all guy David and he's going to tell us
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a little bit about what you can do with
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this handy device uh it kind of caught
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my attention because I was walking by
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they have an iPad set up with an
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application that you can download from
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the App Store I'm assuming and it's free
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and with this device paired with your
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iPad uh Mac OS or any Mac that you have
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or your iPhone you can control your DSLR
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and the UI actually looks really good so
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David why don't you tell us about what
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this gadet can do sure sure um so
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basically yeah it's a little Hardware
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device that uh connects up to your Canon
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or Nikon digital SLR creates its own
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Wireless you know Wi-Fi network so you
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don't need an existing computer or
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Internet or anything like that um and
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then gives you a really high level of
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control the types of stuff you can do
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you know live view uh touch focusing
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movie modes image capture viewing full
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resolution images change all sorts of
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settings HDR I just want to interrupt
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you real fast cuz that's one of the
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things that I noticed too is like really
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granular control I mean control over
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just about everything at least in my
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camera I have a Canon 5D Mark III and it
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seems like you have everything in there
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uh I mean I'm not going to say there's
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everything in there but uh certainly you
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know most everything you would want to
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use on a regular basis so tell us a
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little bit about the different apps they
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all have similar uis right so it kind of
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has like the main layout and then you
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can control all the different features
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all around the app uh yes we have a uh
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iPad as well as um iPhone and iPod Touch
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version we just released a Mac beta
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version available on the website um and
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yeah it's got the same general kind of
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layout of you know you got your image
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you got your controls you know changing
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your camera controls as well as more
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advanced ones if you're doing you know
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your HDR or time Labs or Focus
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adjustments like that and as you take
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pictures you know shows up on the top
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you can download your full resolution
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images if you want to save them to your
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photo library to share them you know
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with Facebook or email them your friends
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or you know whatnot and actually I was
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noticing too that if you wanted to do
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like time shots um the the app looks
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like it's really useful for that so you
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could just set up time shots and just
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have your camera just take pictures uh
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yeah that's actually a common
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application particularly for like you
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know at night time you're doing start
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Trails or things like that um once you
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set it up you know when to start how
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many shots to take a delay in between
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each shot and then once you set it up
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you don't need to have your iPad or
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iPhone connected anymore so you know if
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you're outside in the cold you just set
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it up and then you can go back inside to
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your house or tent or you know wherever
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you are and uh I'm not sure if I
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mentioned this so works with the major
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DSLR so cannons and nikons most of the
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features I was looking at your spec
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sheet work on all the major dslrs out
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there um but doesn't work for Sony right
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now or penasonic or any of those other
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lesser dslrs oo I just got myself in
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trouble yes I won't call this them
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lesser um maybe that was the wrong word
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that was the wrong word how about less
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popular in the market I like that much
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better that's what I meant to say so if
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they wanted to buy one of these gadgets
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where would they do that and how much is
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it uh we retail for $2.99 available on
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our website as well as a handful of
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local and national uh camera shops
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awesome so check it out guys the cam
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Ranger thank you David you've just been
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Gadget hunted air from Elijah see you
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soon
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