Idea for a Sony Phone/Tablet App

[EvanWasHere]

Let me preface this by saying I have not received my new a7R II yet.  But B&H just got them in stock, so my order should arrive any day now.

 

I see a lot of reviews complaining about the a7R II's on screen menu system, saying 1.) There should be a touch screen 2.) Items are hard to find 3.) A lot of the items are confusing.

 

Since the a7R II has WiFi built in, why isn't there an app that controls only the menu system.

 

I know that there is already an app for IOS and Android that lets you do live shots.  But it doesn't let you configure the menu to saved settings or what you need at a certain point.

 

Here are some of my ideas for a phone/tablet app:

 

1.) Saved preset settings: So if you shoot one way in a studio, but shoot another way in the park, and another way in the street, there should be a screen that allows you to set all your settings to the scene you need.  So if I want to shoot JPEG + RAW, ISO 100, auto review off, etc etc in the studio, I just have to push the Preset label "EvanWasHere Studio" and the camera is instantly configured.  When I go outside, I hit another preset, and it again, instantly reconfigures.

 

2.) Customizable menus: Say there are only 10 settings you really change a lot in your camera.  But they are all over the place, deep in the menus.  But you now can save all these menu items onto 1 main menu page.  You can also remove options that you don't use.  So say you only want to have an option for RAW and Raw + JPEG Fine, you can remove all the other menu choices, so there is less to scroll through.

 

3.) Info about greyed out items: So some items may be greyed out because you have a setting that won't allow another setting.  Clicking the greyed out option, will bring up a "hint" field that tells you what setting is blocking it.

 

Having all this on an app would be great.  I have my Android phone and Android tablet constantly near me.  Being able to select menus via touch screen quickly and easily would be much easier.

 

Again, I don't have the camera yet, and while I have installed the Android app, it won't let me see what the options are on it, but from what I've been told, the above is not available.  Maybe there is a Sony developer here that can add it to the current app?  Or a solo developer can create it themselves (If you do make this, I want free use of it!).

 

And if this IS already available on an app, then please tell me where, so I can use it as soon as the camera is here!

[jonneymendoza]

im an android dev and i can for sure see if i can add some of these features