eagle80 Loc: Kutztown, PA

Has anyone used Snapbridge? If you have what do you think of it?

Trustforce Loc: Chicago, Illinois

I use SnapBridge with my iPhone and my D850. At first, I had difficulty with connecting the two but now I know the tricks. Once you download the app, attivate the smart device connection within the camera menu. It will recognize your camera with the serial number and ask you to pair. Once this is done, you don’t have to “connect to smart device “ again which would cause problems. Once the phone and camera link up, it will geotag any photos you take and you can use your phone as a shutter release if you wish.

rgrenaderphoto Loc: Hollywood, CA

It is crap; not that I have an opinion or anything. The battery drain on the camera side is not worth the continued frustration.

BillA

I just got a D500 and plan to use Snapbridge for GeoTagging. My major use of this camera (coupled with a Nikon 200-500) is bird photography. I frequently will take a burst of 10-15 shots as the bird flys in or out of the frame. My question is, will keeping the phone connected while I am shooting these time-critical photos slow down the shutter fire rate?

Thanks and best.

inclinerr Loc: South Carolina, United States

Straight Snapbridge. Nikon D3400 to a Motorola Droid Turbo 2. Works great every time once you set it up. What I have found is to turn off Wi-Fi on the phone, then turn on Bluetooth. Start the Snapbridge application. Now turn on the camera. Now as I take pictures, they are transferred to the phone.

Make sure your software is up to date. Mine is currently at Snapbridge V2.0.3 and Android 7.0.

Katydid Loc: Davis, CA

This may be a silly question but if you post process your photos, do you really want them all transferred to your phone? What am I missing here?

wdknight25 Loc: North Texas

I use Snapbridge to share the photos immediately via text, email or social media with family and friends.

inclinerr Loc: South Carolina, United States

I have Snapbridge setup to send a 2mb size file to the phone so I can then send then or share them via social media. The full size photos are still on the camera which I later transfer to my computer.

Old Soldier Loc: Gainesville FL

Used Snapbridge from my iPhone to D850 throughout multi-week Australia and New Zealand trip. Never a problem. Used for GPS location identification for each photo. Turned off all functions of iPhone which would cost money out-of-country. Every image tagged properly with geolocation and time. Effortless. Automatic. Absolutely no complaints.

hobbit123 Loc: Brisbane, Australia

I use Snapbridge with my D5600. The main advantage for me is that almost immediately after I take a photo it is transferred to my phone. I then have that Snapbridge folder on my phone configured to sync to Google photos. This means that when I'm travelling I only need my iPad to view the photos at a reasonable size and to allow me to tart them up using Google Photos tools (very soon after taking the photos). I can then easily email them (or share through Google Photos) to family and friends.

Like a number of people I didn't find it easy or intuitive to get working in the first place but I put that down to the camera being second hand (and already having a number of Snapbridge profiles already installed) and having an older version of the Snapbridge software on the camera. Once I'd removed the other profiles and flashed the latest version of the software it worked exactly as it should.

I also use it for remote control of the camera. It's a bit slow to start but once it's going it does a good job, even allowing you to change things like aperture from the phone. The only shortcoming I find is if I'm in manual mode and I change the aperture I can't see the light meter on the phone so I either have to guess at the shutter speed of switch back to manual quickly to allow me to view the meter. This works OK but it would be better if I didn't have to do it.