I am looking to buy one of these and am wondering about a few details before I do.
Has anybody used the WFT-E2/E2a, how well did this work on your MKIII?
I will be using it on a 1Ds MKIII, geo-tagging with a Garmin GPS connected to the WFT-E2/E2a as I capture the images and transferring to a Macbook on the fly.
Has anybody tried something like this, what was your setup?
I find the file transfer speeds for a full raw file to be too slow to deal with. However, I set my CF card to capture RAW and the SD card to capture a small jpeg and it is the small jpeg that is sent wirelessly to the computer. Much faster, and it is plenty adequate for checking focus and composition remotely. I can then get the raw file later off of the cf card to ingest with a card reader.
I tried hooking my Garmin 60Csx up directly to the WFT-E2A, and it worked just fine, but then you have a GPS sized weight at the end of a 2 foot cable hanging off of your camera. Kind of a pain in the butt.
What much prefer is to set my GPS to record a track, and then when I am ingesting the files into my computer use a program like ImageIngester to merge the GPS data and the files to get GPS coordinates into the RAW files. That way the GPS can be in a pocket of my backpack and not dangling from the camera.
Setting up an ad hoc connection with the Mac takes 10 seconds and I've had no connectivity problems between my Macbook Pro and the WFT-E2A.
I wish canon had a smaller jpeg that I could transfer to check comp and focus - the small jpeg on the 1dsm3 is still 3mb - for what I do I'd like a 1000 pixel on the long side image. Funny that my P&S cameras all offer a "web" sized image, but the big Canon's don't.
"What much prefer is to set my GPS to record a track, and then when I am ingesting the files into my computer use a program like ImageIngester to merge the GPS data and the files to get GPS coordinates into the RAW files. That way the GPS can be in a pocket of my backpack and not dangling from the camera."
Steve,
What you're actually saying here is that you don't need the WFT-E2A if your only goal is to get the coordinates in the exif?
You register your itinerary through your GPS device. At home you download the RAW images and GPS data through ImageIngester and then you get your GPS coordinates in the metadata?
