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Nikon Releases WiFi Digital Camera

Posted by Zonk on from the click-upload dept.

LegendOfLink writes "Nikon just revealed the world's first WiFi-enabled camera! It runs 802.11b/g and allows users to send files over a network. From the blurb: "Wireless shooting automatically transfers each picture to a selected computer as soon as it is shot. Pictures can then be viewed with Nikon's powerful yet fun-to-use and easy PictureProject software. And wireless printing delivers the convenience of cable-free direct printing to PictBridge-compatible printers. All these functions are easy to implement, too. Just set them up with the Wizard utility to enjoy easy wireless capabilities that add outstanding flexibility to the digital photography experience. "

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  1. Um... by PunkOfLinux · · Score: 4, Funny

    This sounds more like an advertisement than anything actually useful... generally, if it includes the words 'powerful' 'fun-to-use' and 'easy' it's an advertisement. Might also be in an ad for a hooker >.>

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  2. World's First? by cmoney · · Score: 4, Informative

    Isn't this a WiFi enabled camera from Kodak?

    http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier.jhtml?pq-pa th=6434&pq-locale=en_US

  3. Battery life? by winkydink · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I can't help but think that adding wifi will seriously hurt battery life.

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  4. Forget the download hacks... by jarich · · Score: 4, Funny
    What happens when someone figures out to upload pictures to it?

    Honest honey! I don't know where ~those~ pictures came from!!! Honey?? Let me back in the house....

    ;)

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    1. Re:Forget the download hacks... by ScrewMaster · · Score: 4, Funny

      Well, my digital camera just maps in as a R/W USB drive. I took pictures at my company picnic a couple years ago, edited them all in Photoshop to give some of my coworkers glowing red/orange Terminator-style eyes, and then copied them back to the camera. When I showed off the pictures on the built-in display, I feigned ignorance (of course) and let everyone try to figure out how it could have happened. Some of the explanations were pretty funny ... the Sun coming in at a funny angle, a problem with the compression algorithm in the camera, gee, maybe so-and-so really is some kind of creature. Finally I owned up to it and explained that my camera was the new model with an on-board demon detector mode. Got a few laughs.

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  5. Not quite the first ever.. by lcampagn · · Score: 5, Informative

    We've seen plenty of wifi-enabled cameras before (such as the Canon EOS-1Ds), but this appears to be the first _consumer_ camera with wifi.

    1. Re:Not quite the first ever.. by Andy+Smith · · Score: 4, Informative

      The Canon 1Ds isn't wifi-enabled. You might be thinking of the Nikon D2h which has a wifi add-on and is approximately the same generation, although a little more recent. The newer generation of Canon DSLRs also have wifi add-ons available.

  6. Marketing by jo_ham · · Score: 4, Funny

    Will they market it like those Centrino laptops that magically allow you to share your photos and do full screen, perfect quality video messaging over the internet while you're in the middle of nowhere with nary a cellphone tower, wireless access point or sign of civilization to be seen anywhere?

  7. Useful for demonstration pictures, etc. by Ph33r+th3+g(O)at · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The gendarmes can confiscate the camera, but the photos are already on a server outside the country's jurisdiction. This should be handy for journalists, demonstrators, etc.

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  8. Whoopti Do. by L0C0loco · · Score: 4, Insightful

    News will be made when they nolonger encrypt the white balance information in their RAW format. Wake me up then.

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  9. Allow me to translate by Tim+Browse · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This...

    Pictures can then be viewed with Nikon's powerful yet fun-to-use and easy PictureProject software.

    ...actually means:

    The camera comes with some POS software that installs a load of annoying icons all over the place that you can't get rid of, has the look and feel of an explosion in a Winamp skin factory, and will crash and burn more often than Windows Movie Maker. Oh, and if you don't install this piece of crap, you can't use the camera.

    I can see it now...

    "Check out my cool wifi camera!"
    "Cool, let's download some pictures onto my PC!"
    "Ok, first you have to install this piece of shit called PictureProject on your system."
    "Dude! Totally fuck off! Give me your SD card, and I'll put it in my $8 card reader that makes the card look like a standard drive, so you can use any software you like."
    "Good point. Well made."
    "Plus, we won't have to type in any WEP keys."
    "Excellent! I don't have the PictureProject CD with me anyway."

    Honestly, I could write a book.

  10. Kodak not first... Nikon D2h and WT-1 by i22y · · Score: 4, Informative

    Nikon was the first to come out with a camera that was WiFi-capable. Nikon's D2H, which came out in Q3 2003, was also introduced with the Nikon WT-1 (and WT-1A in America), which attached to the camera and provided 802.11b transmission right from the camera. Nikon's latest offerings, the D2Hs and the D2x, are compatible with the new WT-2 and WT-2A, which support 802.11g and some new features. While the camera itself does not have internal WiFi support, it was designed with that function in mind and the optional accessory enabled that. Canon also offers the WFT-E1 transmitter for the EOS-1Dmk2 cameras as well as the EOS-20D. This was introduced after Nikon, however it supports WiFi as well as Ethernet. Mike Isler

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