Canon WFT-E1- User Manual

Introduction Thank you for downloading ITP version 2.0! ITP is a powerful workflowsolution for digital photographers and provides a wide variety of features tohelp you to get your work done faster. In addition to this functionality, ITP2.0 is also much easier to set up than any product before it - a...

Chapter 1 Installing this Software 1.1 System Requirements This software can be run on any machine running Windows 98 or later withthe Microsoft .NET Framework installed. To be functional, the machine willneed an available network adapter that can accept incoming connections. Ifyou meet those requir...

1.3 Camera Setup If you plan on using a wireless image transmitter, ITP offers an assistedconfiguration system to help with that setup process. To do this, double clickon the ITP tray icon to launch the Control Centre. When the window is open,enter your wireless network settings into the blue sectio...

Chapter 2 Basic Administration 2.1 Control Centre In addition to setting up the camera, the control centre provides access to themost commonly accessed administrative functions of this server in a simplifiedmanner. The control centre is designed to be a central repository of themost commonly used fu...

Chapter 3 Advanced Administration 3.1 Edit Users User profiles are used by ITP to allow cameras to authenticate themselvesto the server and prevent other parties from being able to access the server.The edit user profiles dialog can be accessed by right clicking on the ITP tray icon and selecting th...

to be provided to connected clients - this doesn’t effect cameras,however it can help when users are manually connecting to theserver. • The Prefix section allows you to enable a simple renaming mechanism to replace the first four characters of image file names. In addition tostatic strings, this fi...

• The wireless adapter list allows you to select the network adapter that you would like ITP to extract network settings from. The otherfields will automatically be filled in by ITP using this adapter’s setupso make sure to select the correct one. The remaining fields control the parameters that wil...

Figure 3.3: The configure adapters dialog allows you to control which adapter(s) ITP will automatically configure for usage with a wireless transmitter. This selection effects a number of aspects of ITP’s setup, including the addition of virtual IP Addresses to simplify setup. 3.4 Configuration The ...

• When checked ’Automatically begin synchronization’ will not pop up this dialog when this card is reinserted into the computer - thesettings that are currently dialed in will then be automatically appliedevery time the card is inserted. As such, once you have configureda card for use by the synchro...

To access this function, simply right click on the ITP tray icon and select ’Review Images’ . The last image received by the server will be immediately displayed, and any new images will be brought up as soon as their uploadis completed. If you would like to page through the received images, simplyp...

4.5 Slideshow The built-in slideshow functionality allows you to show off your images topotential clients while you are still shooting. Images received by the serverare automatically cycled through at user-defined intervals, and new imagesare automatically added to the show as they come in. In addit...

value requires full saturation, however if desired you can set this towhatever you would like. Note that this dialog can also be pulled up in the same manner in the image review mode and changes you make here will effect both modes. Thisallows fine grained control over how images are displayed and a...

5.1 Saving in Place When a new image is received by ITP (via FTP or synchronization) theprogram that you have specified will be called with the filename of thatimage as an argument. The selected program should immediately take thatfile, process it and then save it in the same location when complete ...

Once you have created the action in the manner that you would like you now need to make a droplet containing it. To do this, go to the File menu, select Automate and then Create Droplet . In the resulting dialog box (see figure 5.2), click the Choose button and select the location where you would li...

5.4 Other Software Photoshop droplets are only one form of program that can be used by ITP’sactions subsystem - they are singled out because they are the most com-mon form of script that will be used. Any program that can be triggeredto process a specific file from the command line and can be config...

Appendix A Troubleshooting While ITP is designed to be as easy to use as possible, the setup of currentgeneration wireless transmitters can sometimes be complex. As such, thereare a number of things that can go wrong and you may not be able toget things up and running the first time out. While this ...

A.2 Nikon WT-2 Can’t Connect If neither of the above has helped to get you up and running and you areusing the Nikon WT-2/2A wireless transmitter (see the next few sectionsfor other devices) there are a few additional steps that you can take. Theeasiest method to debug this transmitter is to use the...

it is, simply press the enter key to go forward. If it is not, copy the IP address field from the red section of the control centre into this field manually and hit enter . If an error message is generated, double check the values and make sure that you have properly adjusted the settingsof any soft...

A.4 Canon WFT-E1 Can’t Connect The WFT-E1 provides specific error messages using it’s onboard LCD. If youare getting an error code, please check the meaning in the manual and verifythe settings associated with that error. Please note that some errors can betriggered by other factors (eg the ’unable ...

your laptop’s battery power and be easily carried with you. Since the accesspoint function is present, the camera can operate in infrastructure mode andtransmit images at its full speed. In addition, these devices can make theconfiguration process much simpler since infrastructure networks tend to b...

Appendix B Wireless Networking As mentioned in Appendix A, one of the most common problems encounteredby users involves getting their host computers’ wireless network settings di-aled in correctly. How you go about performing this setup depends on exactlyhow you will be using the transmitter, so the...

system. The ramifications of these two modes are covered in more detail overthe following paragraphs. As noted above, the primary problem with infrastructure networks is that you need to install an access point/router/base station within proximityof both the computer and camera. Since most of these ...

If you elect to use one of these alternative options, you will be setting up your computer to operate in an infrastructure network even though you will be using it in the field. Since these devices act as wireless accesspoints, you should follow the directions in setting up your system to operatein ...

Figure B.4: This dialog provides control over the behaviour of the Windows XP wireless subsystem when encountering multiple networks. This configuration limits the adapter to connecting to only ad-hoc net- works - this is necessary because Windows’ default configuration will alwaysprefer infrastruct...

Appendix C Firewalls Firewalls are network devices or software designed to protect your equipmentfrom malicious parties outside of your private network. They can functionin a number of ways, however the most common mechanism is to only allowincoming traffic that is a response to an outgoing message....

networks, having a good software firewall is especially important as it isolatesyou from risks that others operating on the same network may pose. Unfor-tunately, since that isolation often means blocking incoming transmissions,the FTP connection initiated by the camera may be considered a hostileso...

Figure C.1: When ITP is run for the first time, the Windows Firewall will prompt you whether or not to grant it access. Select the unblock button to allow the server to operate correctly. C.3 Adding an Exception In order to manually add an exception to allow ITP access to the FTP traffic,please proc...

Figure C.2: You can manually add exceptions to the Windows Firewall using the above dialog. C.4 Hardware Firewalls The other types of firewall in common use are those that are built into thehardware routers and gateways that are used to share a single internet con-nection. Unlike their software bret...

C.7 Accessing ITP from the Internet Configuring your camera to access ITP over the Internet is a much morecomplicated process than doing so on the local network. Since your routermasks the devices on the local network from the details of its internet connec-tion, the automatic configurators in ITP d...

Appendix D Adapter Management ITP 2.0 adds a new capability to manage a network adapter in order tosimplify the process of setting up your transmitter. Many users of olderversions had trouble performing a manual setup of their TCP/IP propertiesespecially in circumstances where the same adapter was u...

The address that is used depends on the licence that you are using - if you have a purchased version of ITP Professional, you will be assigned anIP Address in your licence file. By using the class A private address family(ie 10.x.x.x) we assure that no two users of ITP will be assigned the sameaddre...

D.3 Advanced Settings If you are using the professional version of ITP, you can also click the config- ure other adapters link at the bottom of the configure adapters dialog (see figure 3.3). The resulting dialog (shown in figure D.1) you to manuallyconfigure the virtual address settings for the pri...

Appendix E Variables Variables provide a host of capabilities that are beyond what a basic FTPserver is capable of, allowing the system to dynamically build directory treesand rename files based on various factors. Primarily, this system allows theserver to organize files from multiple cameras and u...

Once an item is selected, it is converted into a variable string and placed in the home directory field. You can modify this string to add additionalvariables or static directory paths to customize the setup as desired. E.2 Available Variables If you would like to manually build a directory tree bas...

Appendix F Licence Agreement Copyright 2005 Thomas Sapiano. All Rights Reserved. Please carefully read this licence agreement, as it sets the terms by which you are beinggranted licence to use this software. By using, installing and/or distributing this softwareyou agree to be bound by the terms of ...