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Remotely controlling cameras

Remotely controlling cameras

Hi, my name's Rich Harrington. >> And I'm Robert Carmen. >> And welcome to this episode of Video Gear Weekly. Now today we're looking at a two part item here, it's called the CamRanger but we've added an extra piece of gear to it. Now the CamRanger is a remote control unit. For basically controlling a DSLR camera, which is supposed to be for photography, but it actually works for video. And, And Rob's just catching up on his iPad. >> Yeah, I'm just, you know, I'm just checking email back on the iPad here. Actually this is a really cool system, and the reason I love it so much is because not only is it remote in terms of triggering the camera, changing F-stops, shutter speeds, that kind of stuff. It's remote in its movement. So we'll break down the boxes here in a second and the parts in a second. What we have is sort of a motorized head here that connects to a little hub, and then there's a Wi-Fi hotspot. And then I can control everything with the actual iPad app…

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