Remote Camera Control via Air

This app is perfect for using while collimating newtonian telescopes. The image overlay and the ability to adjust focus and zoom lets you use this app and your existing phone to replace a multi-hundred dollar alinement camera. I would recommend that you get a phone holder to keep your camera in line with the imaging plane. I have not tried the remote capability yet, but it is perhaps worth ft for adjusting larger scopes to see real time what you are doing without moving back and forth to the eyepiece. I don’t normally rate app, but this one is too useful to not. If you have no idea what i mean when I say “collimating a newtonian,” but you need a app that gives you the option of manual control over you phone camera, then this app is the one for you.

I love this app. When I first installed it, the camera up button did not work for taking a picture. I wrote the developer he replied and fixed it the next day.. It was difficult to hit the camera button while holding the phone behind your back but now you can simply use the volume up button.

An organization that I volunteer for has on-line auctions for fund raisers. I photograph the donated items in a tiny room without professional looking backdrops or lighting. I attached a phone tripod mount adapter where the light was on a junk swing arm lamp. Voila! Steady arm with a camera in position. The Remote Camera Via Air Control allowed me to use my iPad to finish setting up the shots being taken by my iPhone attached to the swing arm perfectly. Yes you do see everything in the shot on the iPad but it's the iPhone doing the work. Love it! I had bought another app called CameraRemote to do this job. It was just a glorified remote button. Could not see a thing from iPad.