MIOPS MOBILE

I think I bought this on Kickstarter, several years ago. When it arrived I couldn’t get the app to connect, it DID. NOT. WORK. I figured it was just another KS scam and I vowed (again) to never back another one (again). I stuck it in the garage and forgot about it. I just now pulled it out and thought I might as well test it and if it still doesn’t work, cut my losses and toss it… and then a miracle happened. A quick firmware update and I’m happy to say I’m up and running. I’m pleasantly stunned. Looks like after a rough start they got their act together.

I am constantly getting “send log“ errors. I’m connected to my FLEX but then it also wants me to be connected to the Internet to send these error logs. Sometimes the app doesn’t go into countdown mode so you can see the exposures as they are taken and how much time is left. If I switch to a different app like email, text, or take a phone call I have to reconnect the app to my FLEX. For a while the app would constantly ask me to update the version. Nearly every time I used the app there was a new version available. Fortunately that has subsided and is not constantly asking me to automatically update every single time I use the app. Overall I like the idea but there is a battery in the camera, there is a battery in the FLEX, and there’s a battery in the device that runs the app. With so many batteries you can count on at least one of them going dead during a shoot. I take photos of residential real estate using the HDR setting and that’s all I do. Having these errors, updates, and needing to reconnect causes a photo shoot of a four bedroom house to take as long as two to three hours.

The Miops Smart app told me to down load this one so I did and some of the functions don’t work with a Miops Smart app device that worked perfectly with the old Smart App. Timed release and self timed don’t work. I have to use the Smart app which keep a bugging me to use the Mobile app. Most of the other features work fine, haven’t tested them all though.