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awesome iPhone app for xmitting from the field
Craig Mitchelldyer, Photographer, Assistant
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Portland | OR | USA | Posted: 10:47 PM on 01.15.09 |
| ->> If you are like me, you have been waiting for an app for your iPhone that lets you send full size photos from location on your photo if no wifi is available. I think I have found my dream app. It is called iStorage. I just tested it out and it is awesome. You can copy files (full size, any file) to your phone via wifi (just setup your laptop as it's own network and give your phone an ip on the same subnet) and either email them or ftp them from your phone over 3g, edge or wifi. The 3G works great too, i just ftp'd a 1.5MB jpg file in under 30 seconds. Check it out. |
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Patrick Fallon, Student/Intern, Photographer
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Columbia | MO | USA | Posted: 11:22 PM on 01.15.09 |
| ->> How long till Apple kills this app? |
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Sean Connelley, Photographer
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Los Angeles | CA | USA | Posted: 11:46 PM on 01.15.09 |
| ->> sorry I don't get it...if you are connected to internet via wifi why not just transmit from your laptop |
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Mike McLaughlin, Photographer
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Neptune City | NJ | USA | Posted: 11:50 PM on 01.15.09 |
| ->> Sean, I was thinking the same thing! |
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Tom Knier, Photographer
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Lancaster | PA | USA | Posted: 11:56 PM on 01.15.09 |
| ->> How long until AT&T starts charging this app's users extra for the extra bandwidth usage? |
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Craig Mitchelldyer, Photographer, Assistant
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Portland | OR | USA | Posted: 11:58 PM on 01.15.09 |
| ->> because your NOT on the Internet. You just use wifi as a personal network to get the files to your phone. This is only if no Internet wifi is available. |
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Robert Hanashiro, Photographer
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Los Angeles | CA | | Posted: 12:06 AM on 01.16.09 |
->> No the point is connecting a camera wirelessly to your iPhone and sending images via the Edge Network?
If this works like I think (and hope) it would work like the Cradlepoint and cellphone data card. |
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Rob Kerr, Photographer
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Bend | OR | US | Posted: 12:14 AM on 01.16.09 |
| ->> sweet craig! you 'da man. i'm so all-over this for a solution in our non-3g area and apple laptops. i can't see att&t stinking about bandwidth usage when paired with iTunes downloading movies, etc. is part of their deal. |
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Craig Mitchelldyer, Photographer, Assistant
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Portland | OR | USA | Posted: 12:18 AM on 01.16.09 |
->> I think you could send images over wifi to the phone from the camera with a wifi transmitter on the camera, but I'm not sure. You can't edit or caption or anything just copy and then FTP or email. It Copies over using port 8080, so if you could tell the camera to send to say 192.168.1.1:8080 it should work.
This program is basically AirSharing with the ability to FTP or email. I plan on using it a lot when no Internet connection is available to send images. |
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Robert Hanashiro, Photographer
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Los Angeles | CA | | Posted: 12:24 AM on 01.16.09 |
->> Apple killed a laptop tethering software though Steve Jobs hinted early last year that feature maybe supported.
It would be nice to be able to use the iPhone to transmit files ...either via a laptop or directly from a camera. Just another option in addition to a cellphone network data card. |
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Robert Hanashiro, Photographer
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Los Angeles | CA | | Posted: 12:34 AM on 01.16.09 |
->> Yes you can send files directly from a camera that has a networking module attached.
But if the wifi network has a web interface to log into, then it becomes a problem. The wifi trasmitters I think do not support web-based log-in/password systems.
I think.
We have discussed this with a Nikon engineer that is involved in that area of development with the company and they understand the need for it. My colleague Bob Deutsch was very pointed in his description of why this could be important to us at many events and venues. (This meeting was several months ago.)
One can hope and dream... |
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William Hallstrom, Photographer
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Pasadena | CA | USA | Posted: 12:35 AM on 01.16.09 |
->> This sounds more like an emergency solution than a go-to method to me, but definitely great potential there.
Have you ever had to send a few photos ASAP only to be WIFIing over the worlds slowest internet connection? You have another assignment, but you can't go anywhere until your files upload. Well even if the upload wasn't any faster, at least with the iPhone you could be on the road and still sending files. (at least for those of us who don't have wireless modems;) )
I wonder what users will find the practical everyday performance on 3G or edge to be. |
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Patrick Fallon, Student/Intern, Photographer
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Columbia | MO | USA | Posted: 12:46 AM on 01.16.09 |
->> Would be even cooler if one could have their camera sending right from the 3G USB Modem - though the 5GB caps imposed by Sprint and Verizon make that an issue of sending compressed files as well, but keeping originals untouched?
IPTC templates in camera would be awesome as well, allowing one to apply a basic template to every photo as it is shot, so the editor on the other end just has to put the specifics in. |
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Sean Connelley, Photographer
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Los Angeles | CA | USA | Posted: 12:55 AM on 01.16.09 |
->> ok got it, silly me :)
Removing the laptop all-together would be great.
Here's another app that does the same thing -- "FTP On The Go". Don't know if it's better, because I haven't used iStorage, but FTP On The Go is pretty good. |
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Brandon Iwamoto, Student/Intern, Photographer
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Fort Collins | CO | USA | Posted: 2:42 AM on 01.18.09 |
| ->> Wait, so I'm a little confused... Once I've created a computer-to-computer network and connect my iPhone to it, how do I get files from my laptop to my phone? I feel like the answer is probably obvious (and requires me to download one of those programs, which I haven't done yet), but I haven't been able to figure it out... Any thoughts? |
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Patrick Fallon, Student/Intern, Photographer
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Columbia | MO | USA | Posted: 2:55 AM on 01.18.09 |
->> My comment before: "->> How long till Apple kills this app?"
How is that inappropriate? Please explain.
"This is NOT to be used unless something rude, racist, or blatantly disrespectful has been said. This is NOT used to disagree with a person's opinion."
It is a legitimate question regarding Apple & AT&T - the use of bandwidth on the network, features that are not being charged as a premium for by Apple, etc.
The way I see it, it is not in AT&T's interest to have this, for they lose a customer who may have previously paid $60 a month for a dedicated USB Broadband modem.
Just because Apple previously approved the application, does not mean they will not go back and revoke it - in favor of a premium service requirement by Apple [MobileMe, etc..] to give similar features. |
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Bradly J. Boner, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Jackson | WY | USA | Posted: 4:26 PM on 01.20.09 |
->> Patrick -
My conservative evaluation is that the people at Apple aren't stupid. But that's just me. Those folks know exactly what this app does and the implications it has for the use of AT&T bandwidth, and clearly don't see a problem with it. It's obvious by now that AT&T doesn't have a problem with it, either, which is why the app has been for sale on iTunes since August 2008.
However, I do agree that someone marking your post above as "inappropriate" was, well, inappropriate. |
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Brandon Iwamoto, Student/Intern, Photographer
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Fort Collins | CO | USA | Posted: 5:41 PM on 01.20.09 |
| ->> Any help? |
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Bradly J. Boner, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Jackson | WY | USA | Posted: 6:25 PM on 01.20.09 |
->> Brandon - On a Mac, once you've established the connection your iPhone should show up on the network (should appear on the left side when you open a Finder window), and then you just drag-and-drop the files.
I wouldn't have the first clue how this would work on a PC, as I'm pretty much "PC stupid." |
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Brandon Iwamoto, Student/Intern, Photographer
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Fort Collins | CO | USA | Posted: 2:28 PM on 01.21.09 |
->> Awesome, makes sense... Thanks Bradly!
Oh, where do the files show up on your phone, as far as accessing them later to send via FTP? (Sorry I'm kinda new at this, I just got the iPhone and a MacBook last month) |
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Bradly J. Boner, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Jackson | WY | USA | Posted: 3:22 PM on 01.21.09 |
| ->> The files are accessible through the app. If you get it and start playing around with it you'll know what I'm talking about. |
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Brandon Iwamoto, Student/Intern, Photographer
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Fort Collins | CO | USA | Posted: 3:24 PM on 01.21.09 |
| ->> Excellent, thanks again! |
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Baron Sekiya, Photographer
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Keaau | HI | USA | Posted: 3:30 PM on 01.21.09 |
->> On the Mac you can "Create Network" via the Airport Drop-Down Menu, then you choose that WiFi network from your iPhone. This will let your iPhone and Mac talk to each other without a WiFi base station.
Then all you have to do is transfer files from the Mac to the iPhone, disconnect the iPhone from your created network, get back on the cell network to transmit.
I use FTPOnTheGo on the iPhone for FTP.
Of course I also was lucky enough to get NetShare so I can take my laptop online with that through the iPhone. |
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