Nikon WiFi Camera Released

By Usayd

In January 2005 I actually wrote a topic concerning such an issue, 8 months down the line and the topic is brought up again. Reading back the product which was announced by Kodak was said to become availiable in June. Well everyone forgot about that one, but now Nikon has released one and it’s reported on Slashdot.

emoticonIf you look at the title of the article i’ve quoted from, you’ll see that it says the ‘Worlds First Built-In WiFi Cameras’. I’ve never seen anyone with a WiFi camera, so it’d be interesting to see what happend with that Kodak one.

Anyways - the camera:

 Nikon is redefining the digital camera shooting experience with the announcement of two new revolutionary Wi-Fi enabled models. The Coolpix P1 and P2 are the world’s first built-in Wi-Fi-enabled (IEEE802.11b/g) digital cameras to hit the marketplace. These groundbreaking cameras allow consumers to immediately transmit images wirelessly directly to a computer or to any PictBridge-enabled printer equipped with the optional Nikon Wireless Printer Adapter (PD-10), for wireless printing.

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 Well 8 Months ago this sounded like a very cool idea. Now it sounds like old news, but even so - the future of WiFi is creeping in.

This entry was posted on Sunday, September 4th, 2005 at 3:28 pm / 30 Rajab 1426AH and is filed under Technology + Computing News, WiFi. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “Nikon WiFi Camera Released”

  1. JOHN Says:

    can the nikon wifi camera send pictures thru wifi hotspots or does the software have to be loaded on the the computer only that you intend to send the pictures… if you can’t send pictures from any wifi location what good is it…i will just wait until the next one comes out that can send out pictures from any wifi location.

  2. Usayd Says:

    Yeah I’m assuming you’d need some kind of software installed unless it worked as a computer device in which case it could be shown up as a computer on the network (which I doubt). As the article says at the end:

    As image transfer using Wireless LAN (Wi-Fi) gains popularity and the number of compatible products available increase, various additional user benefits can be offered. In addition to image transfer to TV, DVD recorder and photo storage devices, direct image transfer from hotspots in airports and other public spaces, and even wireless image transfer between digital cameras, may become possible.

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