Connecting a 5D2 to a tablet (andoird or ipad)

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My laptop battery has died and a new OEM one is over £140, I have heard horror stories about 3rd party batteries. The laptop is over 5 years old so I don't really want to spend the money on a laptop that is end of life.

So I am in the market for a tablet of some kind.

I need it to be able to show portfolios and also control my 5D2 over USB or WiFi (either via EyeFi card or Canon wireless adaptor)

But - and this is key the tablet must have:

A large screen - the Samsung 10.1 seems ideal.
A good screen - IPS would be nice
Able to remote control the 5D2 - i.e. I look at the tablet and control the camera.

Has anybody managed this reliably if so details of your setup would be fab....
 
I'm sure there was an app that was released as a beta a few weeks ago that worked pretty similar to the interface you can use when connecting your camera to your computer (the eos into thing). It runs on android but obviously it is beta/early release so don't know how decent it is and I'm sure someone will be along to tell you the name of it!

I have heard good things about the ASUS transformer, it has an IPS panel and performance is supposed to be pretty speedy from it as well. Will be interested to see if you manage to get all this working as good be a very good setup!
 
Regarding the iPad, the only software i can think of which does the job your after also requires another machine (laptop or desktop) on the same network as the iPad.
Your camera will connect via Wifi to the network so that it can communicate to the software running on your PC/Laptop. Then open the app on the iPad and you should have full tethered controls.

Probably not the best solution.
 
Hodders said:
You can (allegedly) but I want to control the camera and get live view/focus control from the tablet.
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If you find a solution I'd like to know about it, however as far as I know it can't be done yet. I'm going to assume it's the sort of app which will appear for ipad before anything else (it's the most popular and what the majority of creative types use...).
 
neil_g said:
i thought you could tether direct using an eye-fi card?
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The problem with this, the 5DMKII only accepts CF. Using a usb cable is good but much better having it wireless.

There are some CF to SD card adapters like this:
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Question is: Will I fit one of these in my 5DMKII with a Eye-fi card be possible?
 
If using eye fi card make sure you get the correct one for the 5d I have a feeling some models of eye fi cards see no benefit from certain cameras especially the ones that aren't meant to use sd cards also there is no chance of live view or tethering with eye fi I felt a great result just seeing my photo on my iPad also the eye fi cards have only to cards that operate a direct mode the x2 and x2 pro the pro allows raw images the other cards require a router of some description also I think the compact flash cards adaptors have a metal case that has to be removed to stop shielding the signal ,a engineer was going down the same route as you but decided to go with the canon wireless battery pack with his 7 d and shutter snitch there is some advice on the rob Galbraith web site also the eye fi is fairly slow it takes about 10-15 secs to receive the photo from gh2 @ 16 mp but I think sandisk and toshiba have started to develop wifi cards so things will improve
 
Hmm this has reminded me - I've got an equine shoot next week and I'd like to be able to show images on the iPad as I'm taking them really. The battery is far far better than my laptop :p
 
matthab said:
For that you could use the camera kit?
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The camera kit (well its just a body usb adaptor) lets you connect cameras to ipad, the problem is must android tabs let you do that our if the box anyway...also id expect any app your described would appear on android first rather than ipad since its much less restrictive.
 
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