und jetzt mit FCC Freigabe


If you're going to lay down $6000 for the super-fast, low-light stalking Nikon D4, you might as well pony up another $900 for the WT-5 dongle that cuts the cord. Or why not string 10 D4s together? Wireless bullet time at a cost of $69,000.

Thanks to the WT-5 dongle you'll be able to link up to 10 D4s together and to simultaneously control them from a single camera. Shooting with 10 cameras at once isn't the type of thing you do every day because most people don't need to record crazy 360 views of action sequences. Oh, and it's prohibitively expensive. But the WT-5 transmitter also liberates the D4 from wires for other remote controls that are practical if not exactly new. You'll be able to control all of the camera's settings wirelessly using the Camera Control Pro 2 software or from a web browser on your iPhone or iPad. You'll also be able to wirelessly transmit images to your computer or to an FTP server.



Okay, so Bullet Time actually used Canon cameras, but Nikon D4 owners should soon have their own means of messing with space and time. The WT-5 dongle can control up to ten of the mammoth DSLRs simultaneously or, in more usual set-ups, allow a single camera to share its shots over a network. This'll mean you're no longer tied down by the Ethernet cable that we were forced to use in our recent networking hands-on with the D4. We don't know if this will arrive in stores at the same time as the camera itself, or how much it'll cost, but at least it's now passed through FCC without getting shot down. Click past the break for a few product shots, and note that the status LED glows solid green when there's a network connection, flashes to indicate a transfer in progress, and radiates nasty orange to inform your lead actor that he'll have to bend over backwards for yet another take.