hey guys so today I'm going to show you
how to take an android device and turn
it into a remote control for a Canon
DSLR so here we go so recently I got to
use t3i to up the game on my videos from
my channel so number one this is
probably one of the last videos you're
going to see shot on this cell phone I'm
going to be using the Canon t3i I'm
pretty inexperienced with these so I've
been playing with it and one of the
problems that I've had is I shoot by
myself so the focus trying to get the
focus set on myself when I'm not
standing behind the camera I tried using
some things to stand in and I couldn't
get the focus just right so I wanted
some way to monitor locally and kind of
set the the focus on my face while I'm
sitting here so a solution that I found
is to use Android device in this case
it's just an older Android tablet I have
and using a cable you can hook it into
the mini USB port on the side of the
camera and use some software to turn it
into a remote control and you have a
real nice remote view of what the camera
sees you can set the autofocus if you're
if you use an autofocus and take
pictures set it to record all from the
the Android device without having to be
behind the camera so I'm going to show
you how to set that up now alright guys
so the first thing you're going to want
to do is get your Android device and
download this app called remote release
by chain fire it's a free app and the
reason why you went on to install this
first is because after you go through
the setup and I'm going to show you in a
second you want to make sure that you
can take pictures using this app because
that'll test the compatibility basically
and then if it works with this one you
can install the next one which is a paid
app but you want to make sure it works
before you do that so after you download
that go through the setup I'll show you
in a minute here and test that it works
you're going to eventually get this app
DSLR controller by chain fire to the
same company I think it was $7.99
completely worth it there's there's
other apps out there that do a similar
but this is the most full feature one
that I found so after you get that
downloading installed on your Android
device the next thing you're going to
need is an OTG cable these you can get
them for like two bucks
they're real cheap if you don't have one
already and it's basically just a
microUSB on one end or USBC and a female
USB on the other side it's typically
used for hooking up like keyboards and
mice or external hard drives to your
your Android device we're going to use
it for a different purpose the next
thing you're going to need is a just a
standard mini USB cable if you bought
the camera new or you know you bought a
whole box that had all the original
stuff there I think there's a mini USB
cable in there if you don't this is just
a standard cable there's nothing special
about it I bought my news so I just had
to use a cable that I had in a drawer
and then I had just have a connection on
here it's just a standard USB extension
cable because this wasn't quite long
enough then on the other side is just a
USB male connector so what we're going
to do is we're going to plug those
together do the OTG cable with the USB
cable then on the camera on the
left-hand side here there's one door
that has the AV dudes out digital and
HDMI the a/v out digital is as you see
just a mini USB so we're going to go and
plug the mini USB end into there like so
that just slides in and then we're going
to turn the camera
now on the other side we are going to
plug the micro USB into to Android
device and once I do this it should pop
up detected is connected and there we go
so let me take the cap off here so you
can see what's going on so as you can
see the app shows displays a preview of
what the camera is looking at and then
you have some options on the sides here
you have the the focus auto focus or
manual focus you know there's just some
framing things you can select your white
balance here I'm sorry this is the
picture style and then here is the white
balance you can select and it tells you
what zoom you're at and the important
things over here are taking a picture
and starting your recording now the cool
thing about the auto focus is that you
can just tap on an area that you want to
focus the camera doesn't have that
ability because it doesn't have a
touchscreen but with this app it adds
the ability to just tap and focus so you
can tap on any area so basically when
you're sitting in front of the camera
and you have yourself in view you can
tap on yourself get yourself in focus
and you're ready to go once you get that
focus set you can switch your lens back
to manual focus and lock it in and
that's all there is to it I'm not going
to go into too many details on this is a
really fantastic app lets you store
images to your Android device or to the
camera itself and a whole bunch of other
functionality you can you know change
all your shutter settings and your
aperture right from here and your ISO
ISO without having to go to the camera
itself and then just trigger your
recording by hitting the record button
and you can see down the corner there
it's you know it's recording and you can
also do the same you can take a picture
there we go it did a little focusing and
then captured the picture and it's good
to go so that's it guys it's a really
easy setup it works extremely well and
I'm sure it works with other cameras
rather than just the t3i but you can
check out the description and the app on
the Google Play Store if you want to see
the full list of cameras that it
supports guys I hope you found this
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reading a bunch of stuff but your
comments are welcome I'm going to start
using this and hopefully you'll see the
quality get better after I learn how to
use it a little better so thanks guys
and I will see you next time