Building a new camera control application

[joelypolly]

Been working on a camera control app for iOS for both iPad and iPhones and maybe Vision Pro eventually to control cameras like the Ricoh GR IV and Lumix S9. I am wondering if this was something people on this forum would want to help test and provide feedback on?

I attached some screenshots of the UI so far and doing mostly bug fixes right now before I am ready to enter a beta on TestFlight.

 

[ChrisA]

Been working on a camera control app for iOS for both iPad and iPhones and maybe Vision Pro eventually to control cameras like the Ricoh GR IV and Lumix S9. I am wondering if this was something people on this forum would want to help test and provide feedback on?

I attached some screenshots of the UI so far and doing mostly bug fixes right now before I am ready to enter a beta on TestFlight.

If it would work reliably with Nikon and not require me to set my camera WiFi to something other than normal. Even if it were tethered by USB. Just need to be able to zoom and focus and not crash.

 

[joelypolly]

If it would work reliably with Nikon and not require me to set my camera WiFi to something other than normal. Even if it were tethered by USB. Just need to be able to zoom and focus and not crash.

If you let me know which Nikon model I can try, I can rent one to test it out to see.

 

[ChrisA]

Maybe what you should be building is a GUI front end to libgphoto2. The library supports access via USB and Wifi to over 2,700 different cameras. No need to rent and test each of those cameras yourself.

 

[joelypolly]

Maybe what you should be building is a GUI front end to libgphoto2. The library supports access via USB and Wifi to over 2,700 different cameras. No need to rent and test each of those cameras yourself.

I thought about it but libgphoto2 doesn't support a bunch of manufacturer specific PTP extensions but maybe I'll rethink about it more as a baseline implementation.

The app also support BLE in addition to USB and WiFi