Pimp My WFT-E1A
This post is for all our RobGalbraith friends. Since you can’t mount a WFT-E1A, AND use a tripod at the same time, this was our solution. We just mount our WFT-E1A to the vertical side of a Really Right Stuff L bracket (B57L in the case of a Canon 1Ds Mark II) It screws straight into the extra tripod mount on the side of the bracket. We also use the supplied short firewire cable, though it is an extremely tight fit.
Oh ya, we also put a huge DLink Antenna w/ an SMA Connector on top of it. This gives us 3 times the normal range. Plus if you use the same antenna on your router, you will be golden. The supplied rubber duck antenna that Canon gives us is only around 2 dBi and this one is about 7 dBi.
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March 30th, 2006 at 11:59 am
I am really interested in the bracket. I thought I was going to have to have one custom made. I had the idea in my
head all night and then I find this site with it done. I assume I can just search for Really Right Stuff. I was
going to put a quick release on as well. Have you checked Pixagent.com it has software that sets it up and also
plays slideshow as you shoot or one up as you shoot, auto rename etc. I’m just now researching them and seeing if
it applies to what I need. You probably have seen the Jobo viewer. sweet.
John
my film death rating is: four years
March 30th, 2006 at 12:21 pm
Unfortunately, PixAgent’s utilities are Windows only, we are pretty much Mac only guys. Check out Really Right Stuff for the bracket. Its not cheap, but it works wonders. They also sell QR plates and heads that work amazingly well. The Jobo looks sweet, and I will probably buy it for myself, but I’m worried about the screen size and the usability of something without a keyboard.
August 21st, 2006 at 9:02 am
[...] So if your Canon dSLR model accepts the wireless transmitter (it makes your dSLR look kinda lunar ) known as WFT-E1A in North America and as WFT-E1 in the rest of the world. The list of compatible models are: [...]
September 13th, 2006 at 5:28 pm
Thanks for posting that tip! I picked up both the bracket and the antenna, and they work great. I shot an event in a large ballroom and the longer antenna really made a difference.
Have you guys ever found a way to make the photos automatically come up full screen on a Mac after the photos are transmitted?
I mean having a hot folder where each image gets displayed full screen just after it gets transferred over.
I’ve tried Automator, Aperture, Lightroom, iView, Adobe Bridge, etc. but there doesn’t seem to be a way to do it without having someone physically at the computer.
If there IS a way that you have found, could you share that with us? I have a shoot coming up the a few days where that functionality would come in very handy.
Todd
November 22nd, 2006 at 7:41 am
[...] As a follow up to our oldie but goodie post Pimp your WFT-E1A we have come up with another ingenious use of the Really Right Stuff bracket for our Canon 1Ds Mark II. The Really Right Stuff bracket works great for holding our transmitter and allowing the use of a tripod at the same time, however we still had some problems with shooting tethered and staying connected. For awhile we just looped our firewire cable around and tucked it behind the bracket. This worked OK, but it wasn’t great. For one, even with the extra rigid plastic cable holder, having a two inch straight cable coming out the side of your camera is a bad idea. Tucking the cable made it more secure for when photographers got the cable stuck on something, but it could still get crushed if the photographer put the camera down wrong. The real breakthrough was finding a right hand firewire cable. [...]
January 16th, 2007 at 8:24 pm
Regarding the question of how to have the images load into a mac and play in a slide show automatically: I have been looking for a long time too. I recently used TEPS-X by Tri-Prism. They make event imaging software and print drivers for the mac. Their software will run a slide show and when a new image appears in a hot-folder it displays that image, then continues on with the slide show. The downside is it’s a very expensive program to use for such a simple task
I’m planning to use ACDC Pro in Parallels on a job in a few weeks. I think that may be the only solution for now.
January 21st, 2007 at 7:12 pm
Does anyone out there know how to make an extended network using multiple airport base stations (or any other brand of wifi devices) so that the wireless transmitter will roam and still send files? rand@morningstarprod.com