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In the age of social networking and live video, we need to be more responsive. ShutterSnitch is an application we can use to help us achieve this goal.

If you are familiar with AFP-Reporter, ShutterSnitch is its alternative for mobile phones. This application is independent and has no connection with the AFP or with the major photography brands like Nikon, Canon and Sony, and as a result it is compatible with all these brands.

ShutterSnitch requires a subscription which is supported by AFP.

You will find the main functionalities required by photographers (classification, cropping, editing, captioning, image transmission), but above all for a photographer, it creates a strong and reliable link between your camera and the "laptop" of the 2020s : Your iPhone.

So, please read the following carefully, follow the steps one by one. We know that this page is quite " loaded", but not everything is useful right away, so take your time, pause the videos regularly, we think it's worth the time you'll spend on it :-)

You will need a little time to understand the spirit of this application, but once it is done it is done!

1. It is the perfect partner of this new generation of mirrorless cameras

2. It covers any kind of news coverage scenario (live, tag'n send, crop'n send, standalone)

3. Exporting a picture to your phone is not a hassle anymore. (You can push an HD pix from the camera to the phone)

4. Easy Wifi connection to your Nikon/Canon/Sony Camera

5. Easy crop & graphic editing

6. Easy captioning (With for example player's shirt-number as code shortcut !!)

7. Easy photo uploading to your FTP. (Export a picture from your camera straight to your FTP even if the camera has no FTP settings)

Click Here (one hour of a training session with the US photographers stored on Microsoft Onedrive)

15/06/2022 note: Things are changing fast and the connection part with the iphone has strongly evolved look below in the site

If ShutterSnitch is already installed

On your iPhone

1. Make sure you are correctly logged-in as Super-User. Options > The top menu shows written in red "Log Out SuperUser".

   1. • If not, log-in with the password you have chosen the first time you have installed ShutterSnitch

      • If you don' t remember your password, reset it : Options > Settings > Advanced > Reset password and re-enter a new password

      • You can Download this preset file (you need to visit this page with your iPhone to push it to ShutterSnitch) . You can select the part to import nothing will be lost from your personnal configuration

      • Tap on the blue arrow at the top right of the screen > Tap on the file > Tap on the blue arrow at the top right again > plus > open in ShutterSnitch > Import

Install ShutterSnitch on your iPhone

On your iPhone

1. Settings > Displays & Brightness > Auto-Lock > 5 minutes (or the iOS will lock your iPhone too quickly)

2. Download ShutterSnitch from the Appstore

3. You can optionaly download download FTPManager Pro to see the inside of the FTP and visualize what you have sent.

4. Launch the app, choose a SuperUser password (AND REMEMBER IT !!) or keep it simple choose AFP2020 or your VPN password to be standard

5. You get one week of free subscription. Then, it is $36/year that AFP will refund you upon presentation of the printed receipt at your office.

6. Visit this site with your iPhone to Download that preset file

7. Tap on the blue arrow at the top right of the screen > Tap on the file > Tap on the blue arrow at the top right again > plus > open in ShutterSnitch > Import

8. While we're at it you can also download SmugMug right away (we'll talk about it at the end)

NOTA: Sometimes a third party application previously installed on your iPhone tries to open and manage the preset file. You will have to uninstall it to be able to use this ShutterSnitch conf file. For example Documents (Franco Swarts) , or GPX Viewer (William Modesitt) etc... If ever you can't manage to download it, you will have to send it as an attachment by email and open it from this mail.

Body Customization

Set the wifi time-out

Custom Setting Menu > Timers AE Lock > Standby Timer > ∞

Customize the 'i' button

Switch the camera's wifi ON & make a shortcut to the button "i".

Connect your Z6 or D6 to the Hotspot of your iPhone

Switch the camera's wifi ON with the shortcut (button "i") then watch the video

Congrats you can start working ! and you can go to step 6.

Shuttersnitch can work with multiple cameras connected as long as you use a WT and your iPhone in Hotspot mode

With D series download first this Network Profile file and copy the file into an XQD card (don't try without this file it is way easier with it)

Prepare your iPhone

1. 1. Setting > Battery > Power saving > off

   2. Setting > Display & Brightness > Auto-Lock > never

   3. Disconnect the wifi the iphone could be connected to.

   4. Check and set the wi-fi hotspot

Go to Settings > Personal Hotspot / Toggle on "Allow Others to Join" and make note of the Wi-Fi shared network name (SSID) and its password.

Prepare Shuttersnitch

1. Go to > Options > Settings / Access / FTP port > write 26000 (It sounds weird but that's the way it is, it is not 21 ... )

2. Open a Collection

Prepare your D5/D6 (with the WT plugged in)

1. Insert this XQD into your camera

2. Remove all kinds of times out: Custom Setting Menu > Timers AE lock > c2 Standby Timer > 30m

Copy the configuration file to your camera

3. Setup Menu > Network ( Wired LAN/WT on the D6) > Network connection (Wired LAN/WT functions on the D6) > Enable

input that profile in your camera

> Choose Hardware > Wireless LAN

> Network settings > Copy from-to card > Copy from Card

Then edit the profile

You will need to enter the SSID of your iPhone and the wifi password you took note (as detailed above), and the FTP pasword (Your personnal Shuttersnitch password)

4. > Choose ShutterHotspot> Press 🔍- (to edit it)

> Wireless > SSID > Write the iPhone shared network name

> Encryption > Password > iPhone wifi key

> FTP > Password > Enter your ShutterSnitch Password > OK

5. > Options> Auto Send > Off or On (up to you)

6. Switch OFF/ON your D5/D6 to save the settings

HOW to USE

The iPhone hotspot works this way

• When the hotspot screen Settings > Personal Hotspot is displayed the hotspot starts and stays up (of course "Allow Others to Join" has to be toggled on)

• When the hotspot screen is in the background, the hotspot will only stay 90 sec activated then the iOS turns it off if there is no device connected

NOTE: It works differently with the Apple devices by using the Bluetooth to reactivate the hotspot after the 90 sec

1. 1. Turn on the wi-fi hotspot just showing the screen Settings > Personal Hotspot (You now have 90 seconds to connect your camera)

   2. Run Shuttersnitch & open a collection (and let it displayed)

   3. Switch ON your camera (and your second camera if you need to connect two)

It should now be connected

1. 4. To send a picture press the two usual buttons OK + Central Selector

Any issues ?

• Go back to the hotspot screen of your iPhone and toggle it OFF wait 10 sec and toggle it ON

• Make sure that you have opened a Collection in Shuttersnitch

• Make sure you entered correctly the SSID and the Passwords, it is case sensitive

• Check Shutternitch > Options > / Access / FTP port > 26000

If you want to build your own connection manually, without the ready to use profile it can be very difficult to set properly the Wi-Fi and the FTP but here are the settings:

• Automatic IP

• DHCPv6 : On

• DHCPPrefixv6 : 64

• SSID : input the Wi-Fi network name of your iPhone (for example John's iPhone )

• Key : Input the "Wi-Fi password" of the iPhone

• Ftp server : 172.20.10.1

• Ftp port : 26000

• Ftp user: afpsnitch

• Ftp code : Your ShutterSnitch password

It is may be the safest way to work nowadays if you don't have an iPhone 12 (using 5ghz hotspot frequencies)

Connecting an ethernet cable (if possible ultra-thin, like the one we provide) between the iPhone and the D4s, D5, D6 makes it possible to transfer photos faster, but also prevents interferences with other Wi-Fi frequencies. It requires a Lightning-to-RJ45 adaptor and an ultra thin short cable.

Prepare your iPhone (like Above)

1. 1. Setting > Battery > Power saving > off

   2. Setting > Display & Brightness > Auto-Lock > never

   3. Disconnect the wifi the iphone could be connected to.

Prepare Shuttersnitch (like Above)

1. Go to > Options > Settings / Access / FTP port > write 26000 (It sounds weird but it is not 21 ... )

2. Open a Collection

Prepare your D4s/D5/D6

For D4s/D5/D6 download first this Network Profile file and put the NETSET01.TXT file into an XQD card

input that profile in your camera

1. Insert this XQD into your camera

2. Setup Menu > Network ( Wired LAN/WT on the D6 ) > Network connection (Wired LAN/WT functions on the D6) > Enable

3. > Choose Hardware > Wireless LAN

4. > Network settings > Copy from-to card > Copy from Card ( "SHUTTERLAN" is downloaded)

Change the password

5. > Highlight "Shutterlan" > Press " 🔍- " (to edit it) > FTP > Pswd > Write your ShutterSnitch SuperUser Pswd > OK

6. > Options> Auto Send > Off or On (up to you)

7. Custom Setting Menu > Timers AE lock > Standby Timer > 30m

8. Switch OFF/ON your D5/D6 to save the settings

9. Plug the Ethernet adpator to the iPhone

10. Plug the ethernet cable to the adaptor and to the camera

On your iPhone

11. Now you need to apply a manual IP address to your ethernet Adaptor : Please watch the following video

https://youtu.be/8oj5xrtS74A

1. Settings > Ethernet > USB 10/100/1000 > Configure IP > Manual

2. IP address > 192.168.1.1

3. Subnet mask > 255.255.255.0

4. Save

Each time you work the iPhone wired to the D4s/D5/D6

1. First Launch Shuttersnitch and open a collection

2. In second, switch on the camera and the network

3. To send a picture press the two usual buttons OK + Central Selector

NOTE

Remember that you have given your adapter a manual IP address. If you ever want to connect your iPhone to internet with this adapter instead of using the Wifi, you will have to re-tick the automatic IP option on the iPhone.

• Settings > Ethernet > USB-10-100-1000 > Configure IP > Automatic > Save

Then, if you want to use this adapter again with a D4s/D5/D6,

• Repeat this process from step 11.

The Z9 is an expert camera that changes some habits especially during the editing in the viewfinder. So we've put together a bunch of photo settings that we think make sense to start with. If you want to use it, Download this file to the root of a XQD card (CFx card if you have a reader) then Setup Menu > Save/load menu settings > Load menu settings don't forget to change the Artist's name and change The time Zone.

With this file the buttons of your camera will get these functions:

When shooting: Rec button will playback, fn1 will Playback, fn2 will recall shooting functions, fn3 tiggers remote cameras with Nx-field,

When Playback: Rec button will zoom 100% , fn1 will rate ⋆ + FTP, fn2 will only show the ⋆ files, ⚿ also rates ⋆ + FTP

Check you use the last firmware

Z9 to SHUTTERSNITCH cabled (Our favourite)

Prepare your iPhone with the RJ45 adaptor connected

1. Settings > Ethernet > USB 10/100/1000 > Configure IP > Manual

2. IP address > 192.168.1.1

3. Subnet mask > 255.255.255.0

4. Save

Prepare Shuttersnitch

1. Go to > Options > Settings and check that all is the same as below

2. and don't forget to open a collection

Prepare your Z9

1. To make it simple download this FTP Profile to the root of a XQD card (CFx card if you have a reader)

2. Insert this card into your camera Network menu > Connect to FTP server > Network settings > Copy to /from card > Copy profile from card

3. Network menu > Connect to FTP server > Settings > Select "Shutter (Lan)" > → > FTP > Password > Type YOUR ShutterSnitch 'Superuser' Password

4. Network Menu > Wired Lan > ON

5. Switch Off/On your camera , (the green LED blinks)

6. Send a picture as usual (fn1 or fn4 )

Z9 to SHUTTERSNITCH with IPHONE as Wifi HOTSPOT

Prepare Shuttersnitch

1. The same as above

2. don't forget to open a collection

Prepare your iPhone Hotspot

1. 1. Setting > Battery > Power saving > off

   2. Setting > Display & Brightness > Auto-Lock > never

   3. Disconnect any wifi the iphone could be connected to.

   4. Activate the hotspot: Settings > Personal Hotspot / Toggle on "Allow Others to Join" & keep in mind the SSID (Wi-Fi shared network) + its pswd

Prepare your Z9

1. Download this connection Profile to the root of a XQD card (CFx card if you have a reader)

2. Insert this card into your camera Network menu > Connect to FTP server > Network settings > Copy to /from card > Copy profile from card

3. Network menu > Connect to FTP server > Settings > Choose "Shutter (Wifi)" > → > Wireless > SSID > Type your iPhone's SSID (case sensitive)

> Wireless > Password > enter your iPhone Wifi pswd (case sensitive)

> FTP > Password > Your Shuttersnitch Superuser Pswd

4. Switch Off your camera

On your iPhone, as the Hotspot is active during only 90" when no devive is connected, toggle it Off/ On . Have a look in ShutterSnitch collection

5. Switch On your camera (the green LED blinks)

6. Send a picture as usual (fn1 or fn4 )

Z9 to Iris with IPHONE as Wifi HOTSPOT (there is no ShutterSnitch here)

Prepare your iPhone Hotspot

Same as above

Prepare your Z9

7. Download this FTP Profile to the root of a XQD card (CFx card if you have a reader)

8. Insert this a card into your camera Network menu > Connect to FTP server > Network settings > Copy to /from card > Copy profile from card

9. Network menu > Connect to FTP server > Settings > Choose "iPhone Iris " > → > Wireless > SSID > Write your iPhone's SSID

> Wireless > Password > enter your iPhone Wifi pswd

> FTP > User ID> Iris FTP login

> FTP > Password > Iris FTP Pswd

10. Switch Off your Z9 to save the settings

On your iPhone, as the Hotspot is active during only 90" when no devive is connected, toggle it Off/ On .

11. Switch On your camera (the green LED blinks)

12. Send a picture as usual (fn1 or fn4 )

The "philosophy" of ShutterSnitch is based on the script, much like the actions you use in Photoshop. You will have to choose the actions you need and organize them successively in some scripts to automate them.

You can start with the following presets that we put at your disposal

On your iPhone

1. Make sure you are correctly logged-in as Super-User. Options > The top menu shows written in red "Log Out SuperUser". If not, go to chapter 1

2. Read this site with your iPhone and do Download that preset file (If not already done see Chapter 1)

3. Tap on the blue arrow at the top right of the screen > Tap on the file > Tap on the blue arrow at the top right again > plus > open in ShutterSnitch > Import

4. Tap on a collection (a folder) and tap on the blue cog

You should see this screen

4. Then you need to customize the FTP, this is how to

https://youtu.be/Ws3ESsyUxcI

Don't forget you can pause the video to take the time to tune your devices.

• Depending on your phone operator, if you receive a phone call while transmitting photos, it may be slowed down to 3G speed. If your operator is equipped with VoLTE technology then the speed will remain the same.

• If you are using another application and ShutterSnitch is inactive, the iOS may interrupt the wifi connection between the phone and the camera (after app 3')

In first the Lazy Photographer's Style, Live-Mode

Don't forget to use the Pocket Mode to avoid accidental screen tapping or the phone to lock.

Then, just turn ON the wifi of your camera (button i) and Shoot pictures. They will all land in the collection, and be uploaded to your channel

In second The London's Style, Tag'n Send

Don't forget to use the Pocket Mode to avoid accidental screen tapping or the phone to lock.

In third the Paris' Style, Crop and Send

Don't forget to use the Pocket Mode to avoid accidental screen tapping or the phone to lock.

The Standalone "Papa's style" (using SIRI no kidding...)

Do Play first the parisian style video

The full caption is compatible with Iris. The only tricky part is you have to fill in the Subject Reference field with the Subjects Codes you can find here

https://docs.aylien.com/newsapi/search-taxonomies/#search-labels-for-iptc-subject-codes

Example:

Let's say you cover an event where you're assured that transmissions will be challenging. Here are your life-saving solutions !

3 aspects need to be considered:

- The connection between the camera and the iPhone (Wifi or Cabled)

- The compression of the image

- The cellular network/carrier

Nothing new you say... but the answers are :-)

In this type of event, we believe that the iPhone should be used as a "Super Hotspot": In that configuration, the image file can be recompressed in HEIC to be transferred 5x faster than in jpeg and on top of that the photographer will have the chance to choose the best cellular network.

Let's start:

If you think the wifi between the iPhone and the camera will NOT work, that the frequencies will be jammed (Crowd, secret services, TV Cameras etc...) then use a cable with adapter. Please visit this section of the site then start from step 5 below. This is a 100% reliable solution but allows only one body to be connected (nothing is perfect...)

If you think the wifi between the iPhone and the camera will work, and not be jammed at the last minute then make a wifi hotspot of your iPhone, watch the video and start from step 1 below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltgk8FiVHoE&t=110s

1: Unlock the iPhone

2: Open control center (slide your finger from top)

3: Touch & Hold the center of the wifi card

4: Tap personal hotspot (When done you have 90 seconds to connect your camera)

5: Launch Shuttersnitch

6: If not done yet: Toggle HEIC in the options of your Channel FTP profile. With this option toggled ON you can shoot Fine* quality archive this quality, and send Normal quality.

Shuttersnitch > Options > Locations > Edit > Your channel FTP > Pre-Process > Toggle Send Images as HEIC

If you want to know what HEIC is : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLYbBbK--s8

8: Switch ON the camera. if it is on the right FTP profile, it will automatically search for the network and connect to the iPhone. If not choose the right profile

> On your camera just do as usual to select a picture to FTP. Exactly as with a MIFI.

> If you don't do tag'n send and you want to edit/crop/caption your pictures:

• You cannot use the pocket mode but the phone must never lock : Have a look here

• It is difficult to use another app when transmitting because the iOS shuts Shuttersnitch off quite fast when it is put in background. But it is multi tasks you can edit and send in the same time (just slide down the FTP Tasks window)

> If the camera is switched off to save power, or if a wifi disconnection occurs more than 90" all the process has to be done from step 2 because the iOS hotspot stops broadcastings

> With the HEIC format, only the Caption and Artist Name fields are stored (no need to enter the categories, area, etc... it will not be used).

> If you need a phone call try to use Whatsapp or Signal or Teams. It is only because some carriers' cellular hardware disables the phone's 4G/5G to let voice calls through. But with an eSIM it works fine (Have a look below)

Are you still awake?

The advantages of using the iPhone as a hotspot (even without Shuttersnitch) over the usual MIFI is that you use the latest and greatest cell technology (compare to Mifi) 5G & quality of reception ans also:

You can Buy eSIM (it is also refund by the AFP) to temporarily change carrier network depending on the quality of the connection wherever you work

Please take time to watch the video below.

• What is an Esim : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIi-_L4JQ6o&t=81s

• Apple and the eSIM : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXUJ0o007tg

• How to Install an Airalo esim : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzO_4wV16p4

• In case of connection problem with Airalo : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5aTtLWIqxs

Now you understand what an eSIM is, please do test it and get used to it. Practice using it even when it is not required. It will allow you to fulfill an old news agency photographer's dream, change the carrier network in 5 seconds and choose the fastest one.

If you have any doubts about how to do it, call your technician who will certainly be able to help you with the specificities of each country.

You can optionally enable "Accept JPEGs only" if you don’t want to send the NEF or RAW files to the iPhone

Jpeg Re-Compression

If you are connected to a very poor mobile network you can set ShutterSnitch to recompress (Please don't resize !!!) the files you are moving to the desk and keep the original raw or jpeg on your XQD

Options > Settings > General > Picture Recompression Quality > Choose the quality

If you need to convert some Iris' lists of names, please have a look at this page.

Also learn how to convert a picture of a match list to an editable list. HERE

if you need an effortless method for making lists

(Thoses lists are also working with PhotoMechanics)

ON YOUR IPHONE

• • Launch Shuttersnitch

  • Open an image Press "i" to caption your image

  • Tap in the caption field

  • Tap the Shirt icon of the keyboard

  • Choose the lists you need to activate

Done

We are testing SmugMug

• • 66$/year unlimited storage : It is cheaper than the hard disks you buy.

  • It is a dedicated cloud service for photography whose business is not based on the sale of your personal data

  • It is very easy to use and very well interfaced with Shuttersnitch

  • It is MAC / PC / Android compatible

  • It gets all the benefits of a cloud service: Availability, Compatibility, Longevity, Presentation, Security

  • HEIF compatible (the 10-bit format that should eventually replace Jpeg and RAW)

  • Video Compatible

  • Very fast uploading and downloading to the cloud. (Empty quickly the phones that are too full)

  • It is NOT raw compatible

How to use it

To store your your pictures:

1. 1. Open an account at SmugMug and take the 66$/year plan (remember your credentials)

   2. Start ShutterSnitch, open a Collection where the photos you want to archive are located.

   3. In the upper right-hand corner, tap the icon ... then the icon ☑

   4. Select the photos you need to archive and tap the icon ↑

   5. Tap Other Location > Edit > Archive to SmugMug > And Authenticate : add your credentials

   6. Then to archive pictures on a regular basis , Connect your iphone in WIFI (or Lan) never LTE and do operation 2 > 3 > 4 > Archive to SmugMug

   7. Watch-out to make your Folders PRIVATE

To send a picture from SmugMug to the desks:

1. Install the app SmugMug and write your credentials

2. Choose the picture you need to send back and tap the icon ↑

3. Tap Copy to ShutterSnitch then tap a one of your Collection

4. To send it back go to ShutterSnitch and repeat the usual process

Some other Archive Solutions

• • Apple iCloud, AFP's Microsoft Onedrive, Google Drive

  • A one TB Hard Disk: The iDisk you can order on Amazon. You can use it without Internet connexion. It is also a powerbank

  • Any USB pen connected to the USB/Ethernet adaptor we provide with the phone

How to recover storage space on an iPhone

• Install the app Cleaner++ (of Travis Brainard) > Use the green/blue "CLEAN" button and forget the rest

• Settings > General > iPhone Storage (wait for the phone to determine the space for each app)

Many decisions can be taken here:

Throw away old apps, throw away Facebook or Whatsapp's chat history, throw away music you're not listening to, throw away offline Google maps, use Google Photo or SmugMug for your personal photos etc...

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