I am not normally one to spend money on backing kickstarter projects. In fact before to day I hadn’t backed any. However, I’ve been looking at a one particular project and I’m pretty excited about it. It’s a remote trigger / intervalometer / smart phone tethering system called pulse.
What is clever about this is that works with your smart phone (iPhone and android only), and not only can you trigger the camera remotely, but the images are then transmitted back to the phone so you can check the exposure and histogram. If the exposure isn’t right you can adjust it from the phone without having to go back to the camera.
When it comes to doing time-lapse the system apparently has some pretty smart technology built into it. When you doing time-lapse of sunsets or sunrises you need to keep adjusting your exposure for the changing light conditions. With pulse the app analyses the histogram for you and auto-magically changes the exposure for you.
You can find out more about the product here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/alpinelabs/pulse-your-camera-upgraded
The whole package looks good and checking up on the company behind the product, it is not their first kickstarter project so I think the risk in investing is pretty low. If you decide to back it then obviously it’s at your own risk. I decided to back it and my pulse should arrive sometime in April. You can expect posts and videos about when it arrives.
PS. Although I have ‘backed’ this, the only thing I get from it is my own ‘pulse’ in April. I’m not on commission and so I’m only blogging about it because I think it looks like a good product, and I want to let other photographers know about it.
I spent a year and a half eagerly awaiting the arrival of a state-of-the-art trigger system from Triggertrap that I backed only to eventually get an email saying they couldn’t bring the product to market and I could only have 30% of my money back.
Yup, there is always a risk.
That looks like a great little device. Wonder if it could be used on a tablet for wireless previews.
I will let you know in April!
I do back quite a few things. Some are great and sometimes you get your fingers burned (I was on the top tier for the last Triggertrap failure).
I looked at pulse the other day. But at the moment it is only Canon & Nikon and half the features seemed the same as my phone/tablet app to control my Fuji camera.
Yes, I guess I should of commented that it is only Canon and Nikon. Sometimes I forget there are other brands! ;-)
They do have a development section too. Trying to get other brands to work.
Think they are only looking at Sony at the moment.
Throw an email their way, you never know ;)
As I mentioned. Most of the features are already built into my Fuji and their mobile app.