The great thing about the iPhone is that it’s a device with many faces. What was per­ceived as a wrong move when they decided to go Soft-key, they cre­ated an impor­tant space in the crowded mobile devices: a touch­able layer of expe­ri­ence that bridges the miss­ing link between us & a device.

I’ve been won­der­ing when some­thing like this would come up, and I’ve got my answer today. Enter DSLR Remote by onOne.

Personal inter­ac­tion between a a human and a device is known as ‘User Experience’. Perceivably, there are two lay­ers in which user expe­ri­ences takes place, first is the phys­i­cal layer (hard­ware), sec­ond is the binary layer (soft­ware). What the iPhone added was a set of sen­si­ble lay­ers that enables iPhone to respond intu­itively towards the basic rules of human phys­i­cal inter­ac­tion. And this is an impor­tant layer that often is miss­ing from other tech­ni­cal devices, like a camera.

The idea of inter­act­ing with your DSLR via your touch, and series of other iPhone-like behav­ior, e.g. shake, pinch, tilt, etc–is going to give a lot of new fron­tiers and cre­ative space for pho­tog­ra­phers in cre­at­ing their artwork.

I’m not sure how far onOne will go on this excit­ing new App, I will have to get myself a new iPhone to give it a try. Here’a pic­ture taken by the Canon EOS 5D Mark II trig­gered with the DSLR Remote App for iPhone. Stay tuned!

iPhone App from onOne — One onOne with Mike Wong.