[SML] Other modern "conveniences"

[dale]

If I wanted a camera with wifi, I'd want it to be able to connect to any open wifi and send the pictures to my server back home without any intervention from me.  
Also if I flag the phone as stolen, I want all the pictures that it subsequently takes, along with all the metadata, sent to a server that has court admissable evidence features. 
Dale


Sent from my Verizon 4G LTE smartphone

-------- Original message --------
From: Jon Ares via Stagecraft <stagecraft at theatrical.net> 
Date: 3/29/18  15:58  (GMT-05:00) 
To: Stagecraft Mailing List <stagecraft at theatrical.net> 
Cc: Jon Ares <jonares at arescreative.com> 
Subject: Re: [SML] Other modern "conveniences" 

On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 11:51 AM, Jerry Durand via Stagecraft
<stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:
> Not done.  Say you want to transfer pictures to your mobile.  Well, you open
> the Wireless Connection on the camera, then open the app on the mobile, then
> tap connect on the app, then click the connect on the camera, then accept
> the connection on both.  Believe it or not this process did NOT use
> BlueTooth except for some initial sync.  It disconnects your mobile from
> whatever WiFi you happen to be using and reconnect to the WiFi hotspot in
> the camera.

This horrible-ness is not reserved for your new camera - even the
big-boy pro cameras have HORRIBLE smarty-phone interactions. HORRIBLE.
Just like yours, you have to go through a thousand contortions to get
it to work - and yes, it will drop the connection and you'll have to
start over if you so much as turn off one or the other, or forget and
switch to your calendar, or.....

Anything but intuitive, and finicky as hell.  Hate them.

My Canon DSLR will do GPS tagging, my new Sony doesn't have GPS, but
has the ability to get the GPS tag from your adjacent phone, but you
have to run the app, connect camera to phone, keep it running, don't
let the phone try to connect to another wi-fi network, etc (even
though the tagging is through bluetooth).... huge disappointment.

-- 
Jon Ares
www.arescreative.com

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