ShutterFire consists of a pan-tilt head and a controller.
- The head:
- mounts on your tripod and your camera mounts on the head
- is very small and compact
- weighs only two pounds including the batteries
- is powered by either 4 AA batteries or an external 5V power supply
- has a bubble level mounted on its top
- has a 360 degree scale to show its rotational position
- can rotate 360 degrees continuously
- is very strong and durable
- The controller:
- Plugs into the head
- Has:
- An internal microcontroler
- A web server
- A WiFi radio that you connect to with your phone.
- A four-way rocker switch for manually panning and tilting the camera
- A port where you plug in a cable that you attach to your camera's shutter release port
Once you have mounted the head and camera and connected everything, you can:
- Control it with any smartphone or notebook or desktop computer that has WiFi
- Remotely fire the shutter from your phone
- Remotely fire the shutter with any combination of the following options:
- a time delay
- mirror lockup
- bulb mode operation
- multiple exposures
- Remotely pan and tilt the camera using your phone
- Manually pan and tilt the camera using the attached pan-tilt controller
- Make very large images by shooting a series of overlapping images in columns and rows per parameters you specify on your phone
(Note: third party stitching software is required to combine the images into a single composite)
- Make timelapse videos and panning timelapse videos by shooting a sequence of photos at a rate you specify on your phone
(Note: Third party software is required to combine the images into a video)
- Make a super-resolution photo by rapidly firing the shutter while moving the head
(Note: See Ian Norman's explanation of this technique here}.
You can see the actual interface that appears on your phone
here