This has been on my wish list for a while, and now Nikon has delivered with the 4.1 MP D2H:The other 'big news' about the D2H system is the new WT-1 802.11b wireless transmission add-on which allows you to FTP images back to a server as you shoot them....
The D2H has support for FTP built into its firmware, there is a setup page which allows you to define the FTP server, username, password and folder to be used for upload as well as the image format to upload. For instance you can shoot RAW + JPEG and just transmit the JPEG via the WT-1. Images are written to the CF card first and then transmitted, in play mode the camera indicates images which are queued to be transmitted, which have been transmitted and the image which is currently being transmitted. The camera supports automatic reconnection should the wireless link be temporarily interrupted. In action the system is very impressive, the ability to be completely portable and yet see your images 'popping up' on a remote machine is an eye opener. This isn't the form factor I'm looking for in a camera (this is a big professional SLR body,) but it's great to see WiFi being used like this. Hopefully this ability will miniaturize and trickle down into smaller cameras.
Very nice use of internet protocols. For high end cameras, the optics will always be the limiting factor in miniaturization. Damn physics.
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- jim 8-10-2003 6:52 pm
Very nice use of internet protocols. For high end cameras, the optics will always be the limiting factor in miniaturization. Damn physics.
- mark 8-10-2003 10:22 pm