Shortcut keys for 'fire shutter' (and aperture up/down, shutter up/down) when tethered
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Which device are you using?
iPad Pro 2021 12.9", Canon R, Phase IQ4150
What problem do you see this solving?
While C1 iPad has a number of shortcut keys available for moving and rating, there are no shortcut keys available for firing the shutter or changing aperture/shutter when tethered. It would be great to be able to assign shortcut keys to these functions.
In architecture and product workflows where you set up a camera and then shoot a bunch of exposures as lighting changes (or as you light paint), this would open up the ability to use an iPhone-compatible shutter remote keyfob, any Bluetooth presentation remote, or a Wacom ExpressKeys or similar, as a remote release. (In the absence of a tool like Cascable's Apple Watch-based remote release, this is a 'cheap and effective' way to get there...and possibly more reliable). Also means that in multiple-camera setups, you can use the same remote release for anything tethered to your iPad/phone rather than having to have a dedicated remote release for each camera.
In an ideal world, I'd love to take a 4 button remote like this one (https://www.amazon.ca/Kensington-Wireless-Presenter-Receiver-Presentation/dp/B087JDNZ49) and map the top one to 'release shutter', the left and right to aperture/shutter +-, and the bottom to change whether you're changing your aperture/shutter. I'd really love to be able to just use one button for firing the shutter, at the very least; the rest is gravy.
For a 'quick hack that works': map PageDown and VolumeUp (I think) to fire the shutter. (That's Next on most presentation remotes, and with VolumeUp, also gets you the ability to use almost every cheap-ass Bluetooth remote shutter that's made for iPhone).
Another way to do this: make the "fire shutter", aperture + -, and shutter + - functions, etc. accessible via iOS Shortcuts, and then people can script their own stuff. This would make doing things like automatic HDR blending, and intervalometer support (as Cascable does) automateable.
When was the last time you were affected by this lack of functionality, or specific tool?
Every time I need to flash-paint or light-paint a scene and move gear around with the camera in one place.
Are you using any workarounds or other solutions to achieve your goals?
Using a wired/wireless camera remote
Are you happy to be contacted further about this suggestion or request?
yes
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Hello Martin Knowles, thanks for the thorough feedback and workaround. We have planned nothing regarding additional shortcuts but it might be something easy to do. We will review it with the team and get back to you if there is any update.
By the way, we will be releasing Live view and camera controls shortly, please share your feedback once you give them a go.
In the meantime, if there's anything else you'd like to discuss or if you have any other ideas, feel free to reach out anytime. We're here to help!
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Cool. The “do the simplest thing that could possibly work and be useful” fix, as several have pointed out for iPhone, is to allow VolumeUp to fire a tethered camera (and/or the internal camera on iPhone if no camera is tethered). That way you can use any of the gazillion cheap BT phone camera remotes as a shutter release. Being able to remotely tweak settings would be amazing but having a remote release would solve a good 80% of the stuff I run into.
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