WT-5A Wireless Transmitter

I'm thrilled with this wireless link. It is small and unobtrusive. I have used it with an iPad and an iPhone for remote camera control. It's by far the best remote you can use, since you can preview the image on-screen. I have also used it to download photos to my computer. It's not as fast as a hard-wired connection or card reader, but is still quite good. It's also a great way to review your shooting work in the field on a larger screen. I find it difficult to critically judge a photo on the 3" screen on the D4, but I can look at the photos on my iPad to get immediate feedback if I need to make adjustments. I've also used it to preview photos for shooting subjects when doing portrait work. Again - the real time feedback allows you to make technical adjustments, and your subject can adjust their actions also. The web-based interface is pretty good. It's not perfect, but is reasonably logical. I've set it up with two profiles - one using my general network and router, and another for a field ad-hoc profile that is perfect for remote control applications. I found the setup to be fairly straightforward, but I am a techno-weenie and used to setting up networks. If you're not used to doing this, the manual is ok but not great. A "simple setup" guide would be good. This is small enough that I tend to leave it on the camera almost all of the time. A few improvements: (1) I wish it had a small hardware on/off switch. I try to turn it off from the menus when not using it, but often forget. Luckily the D4 battery is pretty tolerant of the relatively low power draw of this device. (2) It is just ever-so-slightly too big to comfortably fit a USB cable into the adjacent socket. If I am going to plug in the camera, I need to take this off to not worry about forcing the socket. (3) The rubber socket cover flops around when I have this attached. I expect I will end up ripping it off accidentally some time.

Nikon should consider to make this WT to be compatible with every NIKON D-SLR cameras. Otherwise, they will be the biggest looser in this digital era in long-term.

I've bought a few of these now for multiple D4 and D4s cameras and they've all held up incredibly well. I was a bit surprised since some of our photographers bump and jostle their cameras a good bit while traveling but we haven't had a single issue in these breaking or even really scratching too much. The setup of these can be a bit of a pain if you aren't at least a little knowledgeable in network settings (IP Address, DNS, etc.). Other than that they are great to use.

Nikon should have included wireless in the $6,000 camera this was designed for. Also comes with no protective case--unbelievable--and makes it impossible to use an L-bracket for vertical shooting. Despite being a bit bulky, it does nonetheless work with and iPad thru a Shuttersnitch app. up to 18 yards away on location.

I bought one of these for my D4, which sometimes gets used for aerial photography - the camera mounted outside the aircraft, and photographer (me!) mounted in the cockpit. In this mode, the WT-5A is very handy and once you sort out any issues, it's actually quite reliable. Battery life is okay, and construction quality is about what you'd expect from Nikon: mostly bulletproof. Size isn't much of an issue since people using this stuff will mostly be using the camera on a tripod. Still, I'm somewhat surprised in this day and age that Nikon wouldn't just tuck an 802.11 WiFi chip (and a GPS chip!) inside the mighty D4 and be done with it. To have GPS geotagging and wireless operation will set you back quite a healthy sum. Other thing is that I also own one of the new D800E cameras, and was surprised the WT-5A doesn't work with it. I know I should have checked in advance, but I didn't...turns out the D800 uses the older WT-4A setup - even more cumbersome and expensive than the WT-5A. Looking for a better alternative, I stumbled across the Eye-Fi...these are essentially memory cards with built in WiFi. At least on the D800, they seem to work well, and you can get a serious memory card plus wireless for a really low price. They even have an okay iPad app - the only thing you really give up is support for Nikon's CameraControl Pro software when using the Eye-Fi.

is to expensive for this speed, maybe needs more tecnology or other thing. I can't use by my wifi network only point to point with my mac

Expensive, but it works. I use this with the iPad and a program called shutter snitch. Awesome combination, if you do a search there is an tutorial that will have you setup in 5 minutes guaranteed....

Not compatible with D5, although Nikon website says it is. Impossible to set up...

returned after discovered I needed to spend another 400 dollars to have it work with my cameras..d810, d700, d7100