

HAHNEL INSPIRE LIVEVIEW FULL
The shutter button on the remote does allow a half press before a full release which is great for coping with birds which won't settle on the mark properly. The response time is excellent, instant as far as I could tell. The grabs are saved only in the receiver and there's no way to download them. That's possible whether you watch the camera or liveview but there is no way you can check fine focus. It doesn't but it has the facility to capture and review grabs from the low res relayed video. Skimming the specs I thought that the wireless link had a data path for picture data. You can mix camera brands amongst the 4 channels. As far as I can make out, you trigger only the viewed camera, you can't make a multiple selection from the ones available. Without extra receivers to try I wasn't able to explore all the ways that might work. You might like to know that the single remote can be used to run 4 camera systems - so you can cover all sides of the bird table or completely different sites. Thus the view is a little jerky, but you can see when your subjects are looking around. It's not quite standard def and oddly the video from the remote camera isn't full TV frame rate either. The picture is relayed like a video sender – so don't expect HDTV. The transmitter (and trigger) takes 4 AA batteries This hardly matters unless you regularly connect your camera to to your telly in which case, depending on your telly, it might be quite annoying.
HAHNEL INSPIRE LIVEVIEW MANUAL
For this the manual asks you to change the output of your camera to NTSC - the American TV system. Connected to the camera's own video output you also get see the review of the stills you shoot. SLR liveview normally interrupts the fast AF path, and even normal AF might startle your subjects so you may decide this is a job for manual focus (like I did). The transmitter can also take the video output from the body to relay the camera's own liveview. The camera is just the first of two ways a live remote view is provided. I had thought it would be more impressive if it could peer through the viewfinder but in fact the wide, overall view is much better for seeing how subjects are moving around your phototrap. A tiny lens lurks in the front of the hotshoe mounted sender and has a similar view to a 35mm equivalent lens. The set includes the release cables (3 in the Nikon pack) Live through a lensīefore we get on to the main feature – remote shooting – I think the most understated aspect of the package is the video camera hidden in the transmitter unit.
