Remote viewing on PC but not smartphone?

Rick Sevant

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Howdy folks, my name is Rick. First time on your forum, and of coarse I need help. I bought my first DSLR a d3400 about one month ago. Everything has gone along well, until I tried to live view on my cell. I have tried every app on google play that I could find. None worked. DigiCamControl works with my PC thru a cable. I thought Bluetooth would work, but i read some place that the bluetooth on the D-3400 was too weak, so as not to use to much battery power.
 

Bikerbrent

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Welcome aboard. Enjoy the ride.
We look forward to seeing more posts and samples of your work.

Sorry I can't help you either. From everything I have heard, Bluetooth and Snap-bridge are both pretty weak on Nikon Cameras, so I have never even bothered to try them.
 

Fred Kingston

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Howdy folks, my name is Rick. First time on your forum, and of coarse I need help. I bought my first DSLR a d3400 about one month ago. Everything has gone along well, until I tried to live view on my cell. I have tried every app on google play that I could find. None worked. DigiCamControl works with my PC thru a cable. I thought Bluetooth would work, but i read some place that the bluetooth on the D-3400 was too weak, so as not to use to much battery power.


Your question needs refinement...

Live Viewing within the context of what your describing is called tethering... That's different than viewing images from your camera on a computer.

One simply entails viewing the images on the camera that have already been taken and the other entails viewing a LIVE image on the camera and using the tethering software to control the camera...
 

hark

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Your question needs refinement...

Live Viewing within the context of what your describing is called tethering... That's different than viewing images from your camera on a computer.

One simply entails viewing the images on the camera that have already been taken and the other entails viewing a LIVE image on the camera and using the tethering software to control the camera...

Fred, that camera doesn't have built-in WiFi does it? Could it be done with some type of WiFi adapter to a cell phone? :confused:
 

Fred Kingston

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Correct... The D3400 doesn't have true Wifi... Nikon uses a Bluetooth implementation to talk to SnapBridge (or whatever it's called)... I'm not sure whether that camera supports Nikon's Wifi dongle thingy that talks to their cell phone apps. It might...
 

Robin W

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I had a D3400 and I used Snapbridge to move selected images to my phone. It worked well once I figured out how to do it. The camera store where I bought my camera helped me get it set up. I never tried tethering that camera so I don't know if it is capable of doing that. I have since upgraded to a D7200.
 

Rick Sevant

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Thank you for your response. No, all Snapbridge does is to send your pics to your phone. No live view as far as i know. I would like to be able to take photos at ground level, which is hard for me being I am 72, and see the live view on my cell.. If I missed something on Snapbridge please let ne know. As I stated DigiCamControl, does everything I want and more. The problem is I don't want to have to be tethered to my laptop. Would just like to connect or tether to my cell.
 

Rick Sevant

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TY for your response. Yes I guess I should have said tethering instead of "thru a cable". You have to excuse my ignorance, being I only advanced beyond snapshots a month ago.
 
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Roy1961

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come on Rick, at 72 it would be easy getting on the ground, getting up is the hard part. lol

Welcome to the forum and i hope someone can provide an answer for you.
 

hark

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Thank you for your response. No, all Snapbridge does is to send your pics to your phone. No live view as far as i know. I would like to be able to take photos at ground level, which is hard for me being I am 72, and see the live view on my cell.. If I missed something on Snapbridge please let ne know. As I stated DigiCamControl, does everything I want and more. The problem is I don't want to have to be tethered to my laptop. Would just like to connect or tether to my cell.

Ahh...I misunderstood your initial question. And this is one reason why articulating screens are becoming more popular. You can pull out the screen, angle it, and still see Live View. As far as anything being available to see Live View on your cell phone, I'm not sure about that.

@Horoscope Fish do you have any suggestions?
 

Horoscope Fish

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Howdy folks, my name is Rick. First time on your forum, and of coarse I need help. I bought my first DSLR a d3400 about one month ago. Everything has gone along well, until I tried to live view on my cell. I have tried every app on google play that I could find. None worked. DigiCamControl works with my PC thru a cable. I thought Bluetooth would work, but i read some place that the bluetooth on the D-3400 was too weak, so as not to use to much battery power.
Possibly something like CaseAir Wireless Tethering? I can't say I've used it but it sounds like it might be what you're looking for.
 
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