6/30/2012

Canon WFT-E4A Wireless Transmitter for Canon 5D Mark II Digital SLR Review

Canon WFT-E4A Wireless Transmitter for Canon 5D Mark II Digital SLR
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Greetings, I've been an Amazon's customer for over 2 year, and this is the first detail review I decide to do, just because I'm a super fan of Canon and Amazon, and because this is a great gadget (at least for me) but extremely hard to install. Let me start.
Once I got the transmitter out of the box I was excited to set it up and start shooting everything on my sight, for my surprise the installation was the most exasperating thing I ever done in my life, (you think I'm exaggerating?? try to set the network without reading this).
The first thing I did was to use the "super" connection wizard (as recommended by canon's instruction manual) this only frustrated me, because I was able to see my MAC but I just didn't accept the FTP connection. After hours of searching the net I found a fantastic guy call Julian Love (I don't know if this is his real name) which took the time to explain step by step and with pictures to dummies like me, how to easily install the transmitter. His web page is: (in case Amazon don't display the address you can search the web with this words "JULIAN LOVE WFT-E4", should take you straight to his page, he deserves all the credit)
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Something else that surprise me was that when you purchase this transmitter you need to have 2 LP-E6 batteries (or similar) one on the camera and one to run the transmitter, luckily I also have the battery grip and the LP-E6 batteries so this was not an issue for me, but If you don't have the 2 batteries and you're thinking to get this transmitter don't forget to purchase the battery too.
The transmitter (once is running) is fast, cool and really worth time and stress that caused me. I haven't try all the distance Canon says the transmitter can work and I don't think I'll ever use the complete distance any way. I've been shooting only full size Raw files and the time it takes to be copy on my Mac is about 3 seconds (pretty dam good, if you consider that the average file size is 23 MB).
Bottom line if you don't have the transmitter I really recommend it, and if you already have I hope this can help.
Regards.
MP
PS
When setting the network in a Mac just keep on mind that when Julian talks about login name and passwords you need to write your MAC's name and your Admin password, so Mac let you write on your HD.

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