Name: Nikon WT-4A Wireless Transmitter for D4s/D4, D3 Series, D800/D800E, D700, D300S/D300, D7000
Brand: Nikon
SKU: INKWT4A
Price: 749.00 USD
Availability: Discontinued
Rating: 3 (10 reviews)

Nikon WT-4A Wireless Transmitter for D4s/D4, D3 Series, D800/D800E, D700, D300S/D300, D7000

Nikon WT-4A

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Nikon WT-4A Wireless Transmitter for D3, D4/D4S, D800, D810, D7000, D300

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I'm a Nikon fan but not of this product. It's finicky to set up, prone to disconnect and works with only a couple of bodies. I have several Nikon bodies but after donating my D300 to a promising young photographer discovered the WT-4 was now orphaned. Nikon could/should have engineered a protocol and interface common to all their bodies. On top of it all, it cost a fortune. Something like this should be going for $99.95. I have Wi-Fi transfer boxes (for other purposes) that cost me $50 on Amazon.

Limited Compatibility, Poor Value

I purchased this WT-4A several years ago for my D300. At that time I never got it to work and I work with technology. I just purchased a D800 because I like the way it handle low light shots and the image quality when shoot at high ISO. I also chose this camera because I owned 2 unused WT-4A's so I thought I would get some use out of my costly investment. Well I did get it to connect to my network and my computer. But to find that Nikon no longer support their thumbnail program anymore. This is a trend with Nikon to not support older technology, may be so that we have to continue to purchase newer stuff. This is good for marketing but what about US? I may want to pass my old and trusty equipment on to my grands to learn on.

I'm just saying, "backwards compatibility" and "longevity" would be nice for a product that I love and would hate to change boats.....

Come on Nikon, you can do better....

We pretty much never shoot tethered in a professional setting, but recently we expanded to event photography with a kiosk for prints to purchase. Our system needed lower res images in near real time ftp'd to a web based iPad 3 solution. The wt-4 allowed us to keep the NEFs on our nikon d3 and d7000 while cleaning up the jpegs after sending. This made our custom solution complete and super reliable. We had many old batteries left over from our d200 so we decided not to purchase the power supply. This was probably a mistake. The non nikon batteries lasted less than an hour, where as the Nikon branded batteries lasted almost 400 pictures each. Our base station was very close to our photographer, so signal strength was never an issue. Nice that it works with the D800 we will defiantly use it for Raws in our home studio with our D4.

Expensive but works exactly as we wanted

For what it costs, it's not the best way to go. I purchased this under the guise that I could should tethered without being concerned with wires. And you can but man does it take forever to do. I shoot commercially and I have clients view images as I shoot. It's annoying having to wait 5 minutes per image when trying work with talent and locations on a schedule. Setup is a bit complicated but it works. I would rather deal with cables than deal with the bottleneck of using this.

Crayons are faster

For the price this is sold at Nikon could do much better. It's hard to set up, not very stable, NOT wireless (has a USB cord), and it could be faster. But, that said it's the only one there is... So, I use it everyday.

Not that great

The Nikon WT-4 is a very special exclusive and expensive product ; its a little tricky to set up ,but once you have done that, its fantastic !
I have set it up as a FTP file sender, in order to send pix to my photo desk at my newspaper, where i work as a PJ stringer and therefore need to send pics ON the run at the road anywhere under different and difficult situations ; the WT4 works almost 99 %  perfect and i love it,and so do my editor !.Its amazing how the WT 4 send files radpidly(actually in a few seconds) its nearly LIVE ! but remember to use a good modem/router (this is a must) The Nikon WT 4 is a gift.

Nikon WT-4; Yes it works.

For a $700 accessory, this should work flawlessly. Imagine an apple airport...that is what I hoped for. Instead, you must setup the network carefully and manually using arcane software. Once set up, the connection gets lost when either camera or WT4a battery gets low, and sometimes just after a long bout of shooting it will lose connection. Reconnection of any reliability requires a restart of the computer. Transfer times for RAW files is way too long, jpegs work fine. Since I shoot professionally, this is an unacceptable but at times necessary process. For most purposes I have switched to shooting tethered with a 15' USB cable between Mac and D3 into aperture. This connection works as the wireless connection should--photos are kept on the card and on the computer (WT4a and camera control pro only load photos to the computer without a backup), and I can at the same time specify another backup. I can also have import presets automatically applied to the photos, and it is virtually instant in preview. With the rare times that require the WT4a, the Camera control pro software will allow live view and control of the remote camera with more detail than tethered shooting will. But you are stuck with a connection that has a 2 hour limit in my testing. This item is probably best for pros who shoot sports with an assistant on the sidelines. In those cases it might be worth the investment.

unstable connection more trouble than it is worth

What part of wireless is a three foot USB cord? The wireless for the D2x was great. It worked as part of the camera. It fit nicely on the bottom of the camera and used the power from the camera. This unit is a box with a battery slot in it. It has a three foot USB cord to connect it to the camera... When the battery dies there is no warning in the camera. The D2x wireless everything would die, much nicer. As this is a little more stable and the signal is strong it's nice, but all the nice things really get out weighed by the bad stuff.

Wireless???

Works as advertised, will wirelessly transmit the photos, as they are taken, from the camera to your computer. Setup is a bit tricky and some technical computer-knowledge is needed to do it right. Works well with a Mac, but the setup software (needed once) only runs on Windows. Nikon stated that Mac software is in the works. I wish it supported 802.11n for faster transfers.

Good product, but slow transfer rates

Even though it required my son who is a computer analyst to set up the transmitter and my PC, I'm sure that I could have also done it. He didn't seem to have any problems at either end.