Nikon D810 and wifi

Last time I dabbled in digital photography Nikon D70 was all the rage.

 

Now I am looking at a D810, and would like to know what range of functionality is supported by adding Wifi?

 

Does the camera function as a wifi hot spot, or does it mean the camera can get onto the same network as an external hotspot?

 

Is it possible to say, down load pictures just taken to an iPad while out in the middle of nowhere? Can the iPad receive live view image

from the camera and act as a remote?

<p>My wife bought the Wifi gadget for her D3300. The thing is small, but plugs into a slot in the camera to basically become your router.<br>

She put the free Nikon app on her Samsung tablet, I put the app on my iPad.<br>

Choose the Nikon gadget as your network, and you can select which photos on your camera to download via the app.<br>

The app resizes to smaller files, more appropriate for posting or e-mailing, but leaves your original on the camera.<br>

I don't remember much more and can't ask because the wife is in Norway, shooting with the D3300, downloading the gems to her tablet and e-mailing them to many. In other words, she is taking full advantage of the Wifi gadget.<br>

Might get myself one for the D800 for my next trip.<br>

I hope this helps.<br>

Frank</p>

<p>Right. Just remember that most workflow scenarios that involve that sort of WiFi arrangement do NOT involve moving that whole file, as-is, from the camera. Especially with the D810, since the files are enormous and would be very slow over that ad-hoc network. Small preview files, sure. But not the "real" ones that remain stored on the camera.</p>

I have a Nikon d750 with the wifi built in and it

does allow live view and remote triggering. I

believe the add on device does as well but

please check and don't take my word for it.

<p>The Nikon wifi set up for the D810 is about $1250 USD.</p>

I use the CamRanger for this but it does more than just let you see the image and download it after you snap the shutter

Briefly it allows me to pick the spot anywhere in the frame that I want to focus on, drive the camera (set shutter speed,

aperture, ISO, white balance, exposure bias, metering mode, advance mode, exposure mode, bracket for ultra wide

dynamic range processing, focus stacking, intervalometer work, ultra long exposures, video shooting, etc. I've used with

the D810 and a retina iPad. Http://www.camranger.com

<p>If you just want to get images off the camera in the field, get an <a href="http://www.eyefi.com/">Eye-Fi</a> card and put it in the D810's SD card slot. It's fully supported, and will connect directly to an iPad in ad-hoc mode; the pro card(s) will connect to a local network as well. They're not very fast SD cards, but. Or, of course, get an external card reader for the iPad.</p>

<p>If you want direct control over the camera, something like CamRanger is more important (Eye-Fi just transfers card contents). Although bear in mind that if you don't mind controlling the camera over a USB cable, you might not need to buy any additional hardware to get external control (I've not used software for this, but several reasonably-priced options exist).</p>