Camera Red
Your Sony camera's remote, intervalometer and card reader
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An iPhone companion for the Sony bodies with Ctrl w/ Smartphone — α7 III, α7R III, α9, the α6000 line, RX100 IV–VII. Live view with exposure on drag dials, timelapses shot and assembled on the phone, memory-card browsing by day, and RAW+JPEG straight to the phone over the camera's FTP. No account, no analytics, no subscription: 7 days free, then $2.99 once.
PH · launched Oct 25, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%) · 0 views
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Hardware & robotics
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- iOS
- Photography
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Could you build this?
Partial The iPhone UI, timelapse assembly, and file browsing are standard app work, but the app depends on Sony's Wi-Fi camera control protocol and needs real camera hardware across several models to test reliably.
What it would actually take: Build a native iOS app (Swift/SwiftUI) that talks to the camera's Wi-Fi API, using Sony's published Camera Remote API where it exists and reverse-engineering the rest. The hard parts are model-specific quirks, live-view streaming latency, and FTP transfers, which need a test matrix of physical Sony bodies. Expertise needed: iOS networking and camera-protocol debugging, plus access to the hardware.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #134 of 237 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 361 days after the earliest competitor.
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