GH5 GH5 Bluetooth + Pana Image App

[dtocco]

Hey guys, thinking about diving in on the GH5 this week. Had a couple questions if anyone has any guidance I'd greatly appreciate it.

Currently I use the GH4 on a Ronin-m and use an Amazon Fire as my monitor utilizing the Panasonic Image App. The one drawback is that it sometimes glitches and you lose sight of what you're shooting momentarily. These situations can have big consequences obviously. I'm wondering if you could instead use bluetooth to connect to the camera and end up with a stronger signal and avoid glitches like those.

Any insight out there? Thanks!

 

[joe12south]

Bluetooth LE is used to automagically establish the camera/app connection, but the actual data transfer is still via WiFi. Bluetooth doesn't carry even close to enough bandwidth to stream video.

 

[joe12south]

https://www.smallhd.com/community/focus-monitor

I'm looking forward to this device. The resolution with the app is too low to accurately focus, but I don't want all the bulk of an Atomos recorder. The fact that you can also power the camera for extended time with it makes it doubly-nice.