What does wifi enabled canon camcorders give

[MRE Teck]

Lately I've been lookIng for a canon camcorder to get but when I was looking on canons website I saw that some of the cameras like the hf r50 and r52 have wifi while the hf r500 doesn't what does that allow? Video streaming to another device or can you look up cat videos on your camera

Plz help

MRE

[xox]

It enables the same features that an eye-fi SD card enables I think

[ZacDaMan72]

If it's anything like on the EOS DSLR's you can change settings, remote shutter and transfer media to your device.

[NIGHTSHADE0]

Battery drain that is all

[Bsmith]

It enables the same features that an eye-fi SD card enables I think

 

 

If it's anything like on the EOS DSLR's you can change settings, remote shutter and transfer media to your device.

 

a combination of these above, wifi on canon dslr's/recorders/digi cams etc allow you to change settings remotely, browse through the stored content and maybe even start/stop shooting remotely.

 

and this one only goes up when you forget to turn it off, altough it appears the impact isn't that big at all, since it's still less consuming then a add-on wifi module.

Battery drain that is all

[MRE Teck]

a combination of these above, wifi on canon dslr's/recorders/digi cams etc allow you to change settings remotely, browse through the stored content and maybe even start/stop shooting remotely.

 

and this one only goes up when you forget to turn it off, altough it appears the impact isn't that big at all, since it's still less consuming then a add-on wifi module.

Do you think the extra 50-150 bucks (r50 and r52) is worth it. Or should I stick with the r500 without the wifi and can you explain it in a more easy way and or tell me other cameras in my $300 budget?

[Bsmith]

Do you think the extra 50-150 bucks (r50 and r52) is worth it. Or should I stick with the r500 without the wifi and can you explain it in a more easy way and or tell me other cameras in my $300 budget?

 

I personally think it's not worth the diffrence and would stick with the r500.

This because the wi-fi doesn't add much functionality unless you are within range of a laptop/pc all the time(+/-20m, roughly 60-70ft) and has 2 kinds of image stabilization(optic and digital) while the r50 and r52 have only 1 kind(optical) along with that the wi-fi function drains quite some battery, when left on by accident

I wouldnt know any other camera's within your budget since i'm not such a camcording person myself(my knowledge doesn't go further then gopro)

 

short answer:

the r500 will still do for a while.

[CatCloud]

Just to add but on Nikon at least you can use phones and tablets as well, not only computers.

I'm sure canon has something similar.

Personally i like it, saves me time to connect my camera to a pc to offloadl/upload stuff.

Still playing around with it.

It's up to you if you find it useful.

[Bsmith]

Just to add but on Nikon at least you can use phones and tablets as well, not only computers.

I'm sure canon has something similar.

Personally i like it, saves me time to connect my camera to a pc to offloadl/upload stuff.

Still playing around with it.

It's up to you if you find it useful.

 

ahh yeah was forgot to mention tablets and phones along, those are supported as well, altough that doesn't count for every phone/canon device