One of very few things I don't like about the Zf is the complete lack of physical means for remote shutter release. They tease you with a threaded shutter button but some Marquis de Sade on the design team made that just for show (or for those little button things that screw in to it) and a good old cable release attaches to it but can't fire the shutter. I don't want to use the ML-L7 for a few reasons.
That leaves Snapbridge as the only alternative method I know of to control the camera remotely. (PLEASE let me know if there is a better way to connect to an Android phone or otherwise remotely trigger the shutter!) I don't even know yet if Snapbridge will do what I want it to do since I can't connect to it because, apparently, their sadist design team member had a hand in this too.
I have followed all the trouble shooting steps Nikon says to do. I can get my phone to say it is connected to the camera (without internet access, of course, which is expected and fine) but when I follow the instruction to switch to Snapbridge, it shows the camera name and little connection bars marching to the right to indicate it is connecting the app... And then it invariably (by which I mean I have tried this multiple times) says the connection to the camera has been lost and to try again. I'm not falling for THAT one anymore.
Does anyone here know what is going wrong? If anyone here can successfully correct to Snapbridge, would you please detail for me the method you're using to do it?
Snapbridge connection failures can sometimes happen if you are in a radio noisy environment such as near devices such as wifi router or a lot of people with their mobile phones. Try to find a low noise rf environment and try connecting again.
I use the ML-L7 with the Zf and it works ok. Although it too uses bluetooth, it doesn't have the connection troubles that Snapbridge does.
rtallent wrote:
One of very few things I don't like about the Zf is the complete lack of physical means for remote shutter release. They tease you with a threaded shutter button but some Marquis de Sade on the design team made that just for show (or for those little button things that screw in to it) and a good old cable release attaches to it but can't fire the shutter. I don't want to use the ML-L7 for a few reasons.
That leaves Snapbridge as the only alternative method I know of to control the camera remotely. (PLEASE let me know if there is a better way to connect to an Android phone or otherwise remotely trigger the shutter!) I don't even know yet if Snapbridge will do what I want it to do since I can't connect to it because, apparently, their sadist design team member had a hand in this too.
I have followed all the trouble shooting steps Nikon says to do. I can get my phone to say it is connected to the camera (without internet access, of course, which is expected and fine) but when I follow the instruction to switch to Snapbridge, it shows the camera name and little connection bars marching to the right to indicate it is connecting the app... And then it invariably (by which I mean I have tried this multiple times) says the connection to the camera has been lost and to try again. I'm not falling for THAT one anymore.
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