dSLR Camera to Nexus 7 (1st Gen)

Simian · 10 Mar 2014 at 13:13

The Wife and me are ofski to New York and Chicago in 4 months time and we're budding Photographers (I had a small Photography Business a few years back) so we're obviously gonna take out Photography Equipment with us (I have my trusty Canon 400D and the Wife has a Nikon D3000)... They both have 2x 16Gb Cards (Canon CFII, Nikon SD-HC).

Anyhew I'm also gonna take my Nexus 7 (16Gb WiFi Model) with a Few Movies on a USB/OTG flash Drive (we're going on the Train between NY and Chicago... so 19 hours too kill

) and I have the Kindle App.

Is there any way to View/Load photo's from either of the dSLR's onto the Nex7 so they can be viewed on a larger screen and then Saved/Deleted off to another USB/OTG flash Drive for safe keeping??

What Apps required/Hardware might be required!!??

The Nex is Unlocked/Rooted and running 4.4.2 (stock)

Cheers Doods

Haggisman · 10 Mar 2014 at 14:31

OTG multicard reader is probably the easiest option?

benjo · 10 Mar 2014 at 14:40

I'm not sure about the Nikon, but Chainfire has an app for EOS models. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.dslrcontroller

killianzz · 10 Mar 2014 at 20:13

I'm sure it would be straightforward if you are using jpegs, or are you shooting Raw? I'm sure there'd be an app for raw files but I'd doubt you'd even be able to do the most simple of editing with it - not that you would do it on a tablet anyway

mrgubby · 10 Mar 2014 at 20:37

Have a look at Rawdroid, It should do all you want

FlyingFish · 10 Mar 2014 at 23:33

I looked into this for a trip I've got planned in June, where I would be taking lots of HD video, and wanted to store them to another device/location.

So have bought a: Verbatim 98243 MediaShare Wireless

Superb little device, controlled by an app on your phone over wifi. And can transfer near enough anywhere you fancy. Really handy and clever device, even if the app is a little clunky.

As its capable of reading class 10 SDXC cards (in my gopro), I'm using it to copy straight to a spare laptop HDD powered by the usb socket on the device. So totally portable as it has its own inbuilt battery, to power itself and other devices, can even use it as a charger!

Blinkin genius

And only £34

Mick

Forgot to say the app will allow you to copy your files from your camera to your phone or tablet wirelessly. Think it might even stream, but you'd have to check. Something i've not tried yet. Verbatims webpage has a lot of info on it.