The Fujifilm FinePix S9600, introduced just before Photokina features a nine Megapixel Fujifilm Super CCD sensor, 10.7x Fujinon optical zoom lens… and a WiFi adapter mounted under the camera.
Although it was being demonstrated at the giant, bi-annual Photokina Photo show, there’s no information on the device cost and availablity (or even if it will ever be available). In the demonstration, photos shot with the Fujifilm FinePix S9600 were transferred wirelessly to a printer. The wireless FTP option seems to be a challenge to camera manufacturers. Of course FujiFilm has shown WiFi prototypes before and nothing has ever become of them.
FujiFilm’s new FinePix S5 Pro DSLR ($1200) features a Super CCD chip (with 6.17 million S-pixels and 6.17 million R-pixels) while the camera body is comprised mostly of Nikon-compatible D200 parts. Fujifilm says it can be fitted with a wireless adapter, although details on their D-SLR WiFi adapter are hard to come by.
Maybe Fujifilm’s S5 Pro D-SLR ($1200) will work with Nikon’s Wireless Transmitter WT-3 (FCC filing). The oft delayed WT-3 (perhaps $500) works with the $1700 Nikon D-200, but not the $999 D-80. Nikon’s WT-3 WiFi adapter (if it ever comes out) is expected to have a 10/100 Ethernet port in addition to 802.11b/g for control of the camera wirelessly or by wire. It plugs into the camera’s USB connection.
Fujifilm was having fun displaying the S9600 WiFi adapter. Fujifilm is able to shoot multiple angles simultaneously. One main camera triggers a bunch of remote cameras with WiFi.
The main camera controls all the remote cameras. Each camera records the captured image in its internal memory. The main and remote camera are linked via WiFi’s ad-hoc mode.
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Wireless photography might be lots easier (and cheaper) with a good camera phone. Nokia’s N-95 ($700) is one of the best. It features a 5 Megapixel camera with a Carl Zeiss lens, up to 160 MB internal memory, built-in WiFi, HSDPA, and can record VGA movies.
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