What options with remote viewfinder?

Hi about to get a NX210 soon & want to use the remote viewfinder for putting the camera in a tree to get bird shots.Can i adjust the shutter speed/aperture?? very critical for what I want to do..the camera will be about 40cm from the birds.

if not are there any hacks that anyone knows of

Thanks alot

Samsungs remote viewfinder is the same Remote for all of it's Smart Camera's including the Point and Shoots. It seems because of that the WiFi mode is Smart Auto only. You have no control over anything except forcing the flash to stay off.

That said, Smart Mode is pretty smart most of the time. It will get your subject correct, but it may blow out the highlights to do it.  So, the bird will be right, but the clouds in the sky behind it might get blown out (depending on the scene).
I believe the newest firmware allows you to set the focus point.

Kaziklu wrote:

Samsungs remote viewfinder is the same Remote for all of it's Smart Camera's including the Point and Shoots. It seems because of that the WiFi mode is Smart Auto only. You have no control over anything except forcing the flash to stay off.

what does smart auto do? will it set a fast shutter speed,plan to use 30mm prime on it

Jaberwok wrote:

Hi

The only control you have is flash on / off and image size in Mps. You can also download a very low res image to your tablet / phone.

I use it a lot with the NX20 on the top of a 50 ft pole and it is just satisfactory:

The image is landscape only and won't scale to the screen size, so is tiny phone sized if viewed on a 10" tablet.

The image is very laggy, up to 1 second behind time and very slow to focus / take the image, I doubt it would be suitable for any moving subject.

The app has reasonable range but much improved with a wifi booster in the circuit. I've used mine up to 300ft up in the sky with a helium balloon. Sometimes the app crashes and will require a full restart of the camera / tablet.

In summary it's poor to acceptable. My system doesn't use it any more..I mount a GoPro3 on the hotshoe and use the GoPro app which is far better and much more stable as the viewfinder. The NX20 is triggered by a wireless remote.

I'd suggest using a camera like the GoPro which has a proper app and comes with a waterproof case!

Hi so I wouldn't be able to see well enough when to shoot on my Ipad? I'm going after behaviour of small birds at feeders,and want to capture wing movements with more detail than my K5IiÍ & 300mm can from a distance.The go pro has only 2mp stills from what I know,which is not enough,prefer a small apsc camera if possible.

Does the triggertrap dongle/app give any more possibilities?

I have no idea if that will work. Smart Auto is okish. But doesn't always get shutter great. I almost never use it for more then group shots I'm in.