The Inspire instruction book offers clear visuals and directions to take you step-by-step through set-up. (AV cables can be rather long.) If all this sounds complicated, it’s not. There’s also a pouch included with the Inspire for wrapping up the excess AV cable. The AV cable attaches to the yellow port on the receiver and then into the camera. (Yes, that AV cable that no one ever seems to use.) Once the Receiver is attached, plug the included remote control cable into the remote port on the DSLR and find the AV cable from your camera box. Also make sure you screw down the Receiver firmly on your DSLR’s hot shoe because it fits a little loose. Fortunately, nearly all current Canon and Nikon DSLRs have LiveView functionality so it shouldn’t be an issue for most users.īoth the Receiver and the Transmitter take four AA batteries and seem to burn through them fairly quickly so make sure you have an ample supply. I say “close approximation” because it’s a few inches above your lens and doesn’t show you camera settings. There’s actually a built-in CMOS sensor in the receiver on top of the camera that records a close approximation of what you’re shooting. You can still use the device even if your camera doesn’t have those features however. The camera I was using, a Canon 60D, had LiveView and an AV socket with a cord so I was all set. Ideally, the Inspire is used with a digital SLR that has a LiveView function and an AV socket so you can see what the camera is actually shooting-including screen setting info-on the remote LCD. (It seemed more logical, at least in my mind, to swap the Receiver and Transmitter titles of the devices since you were, in effect, transmitting from the camera to the remote LCD but that’s a minor quibble.) The Canon version I tested consisted of a Receiver that attaches to the hot shoe of the camera and the handheld Transmitter with the 3.5-inch LCD screen. The Inspire LiveView Remote Control is available for Canon or Nikon DSLRs. Sports or nature shooters would be the obvious targets for this remote photography system but it was also just plain cool. The device uses wireless GHz technology to send live footage and images from your digital SLR to a remote 3.5-inch color LCD screen so you can view it and trigger the shutter from up to 180 feet away. So when a test unit of Hahnel’s Inspire LiveView Remote Control arrived in the mail, we got a little wobbly in the knees. Here at PDN Product Reviews Central, we have an admitted weakness for wacky gadgets.
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