Nikon WT-4A Wireless Transmitter for Nikon D700, D3 and D300 DSLR Cameras

by Nikon

Product Details

• Item Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000XRRDXC
• Item model number: B000XRRDXC
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 2, 2001

Product Description

The WT-4a wireless transmitter for D3 and D300 allows WiFi remote operation (with optional Camera Control 2 software) and image transfer (with FTP software) or wired Ethernet connection. The transmitter supports wireless LAN conforming to IEEE 802.11b/g, IEEE 802.11a, (WiFi a/b/g) and wired LAN conforming to IEEE 802.3u (100BASE-TX) and IEEE 802.3 (10BASE-T).

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Best one yet, September 5, 2008

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N. Kiekhofer - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nikon WT-4A Wireless Transmitter for Nikon D700, D3 and D300 DSLR Cameras (Electronics)

Manual is a little confusing, but set up is really easy. Transfer works great. Make sure to buy a battery/charge, not included. Does eat batteries pretty fast and gets warm. Battery would last me 3-4 hours of shooting.

It is expensive but does work very well.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars OK but not for the novice, October 13, 2009

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A. Foster "tfcreate" (Chicago, Illinois United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nikon WT-4A Wireless Transmitter for Nikon D700, D3 and D300 DSLR Cameras (Electronics)

The use of wireless upload to on-line sites is nothing new.
By now you would have thought that Nikon would have it perfected, but as usual they are late to the game and fell a bit short with the WT-4.

For Studio work it's little more than average in performance.
Transfer rate is almost laughable when compared to what is on the market for wireless transfer.
It's very stable when in a controlled environment like a studio, but this is almost pointless when all you need to do is swap memory cards and you're ready to go rather than wait for the transfer to complete.

Then there's the never-ending battle with the interface cable that always seems to be in the way.
The cable loosens mainly because it's only a USB connection that barely snugs into it's port. Making this more secure would be a major improvement. I would even be willing to put up with the slow speed if this were a bluetooth link to the camera. (*hint* *hint* *hint*)

As was pointed out in one of the other reviews, the manual is all but useless, therefore, your best option would be to go on line and search for how to program this unit for use. (The manual is obviously a poorly translated version of the Japanese one.)

If this were married to a 4G network and made less of a beast when it comes to power (yes, one battery will last about 1 hour with light to moderate use,) And this could easily be a world beater, but alas, it's not much more than an expensive toy.

It's handy, but not even close to an improvement for your productivity. If Eye-Fi ever releases an Ad-Hoc mode for it's Wireless card, the WT-4 will go the way of the woolly mammoth.
TFC

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars WT-4 and my experience with it., February 21, 2009

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Charles Wade "Nikon Lvr" (ALabama) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nikon WT-4A Wireless Transmitter for Nikon D700, D3 and D300 DSLR Cameras (Electronics)

OK, now that it is up and running, I love it. But be warned, I am a geek and thing thing took a few years off of my life. After spending more than 12 hours trying to get it to talk to my MacBook Pro, I tried it on my wife's PC and it was running in less than 30 minutes. Downloaded the latest drivers and presto, instant wireless network. But then I went back to my mac. After a few more hours I managed to get them talking. Now I love life. But here is the biggest problem I have had. With the latest version of OS 10. (I have OS 10.5.5) the manual is useless. And you will have no better luck on Nikon's web page for support. The instructions for how to set it up differs on step 3 and never returns to the road the manual takes. You will have to blaze your own trail. So if you are running windows or an older version of Mac, you should be fine. But if you have a newer version of a Mac, you better know the ins and outs of networking or it will be painful. I am a geek and it was painful for me.

That said, once it is running, I have found it to be awesome. The time it takes to download is not as slow as I had expected. I am using a Nikon D300. You can shoot in the highest res Raw + Jpg and it will keep up unless you just fire several shots each second. I tend to shoot about one shot every second and it keeps up pretty good. So if you want to get instant file movement from your camera to to your computer, or if you want the security of knowing that there are two independent storage devices loading your images, this is the way to go.