ShutterFire™ consists of a pan-tilt head and a controller. The head: mounts on your tripod and your camera mounts on the head is very small and compact weighs only two pounds including the batteries is powered by either 4 AA batteries or an external 5V power supply has a bubble level mounted on its top has a 360 degree scale to show its rotational position can rotate 360 degrees continuously is very strong and durable The controller: Plugs into the head Has: An internal microcontroler A web server A WiFi radio that you connect to with your phone. A four-way rocker switch for manually panning and tilting the camera A port where you plug in a cable that you attach to your camera's shutter release port A port where you can plug in a trigger sensor Once you have mounted the head and camera and connected everything, you can: Control it with any smartphone or notebook or desktop computer that has WiFi Remotely fire the shutter from your phone Remotely fire the shutter with any combination of the following options: a time delay mirror lockup bulb mode operation multiple exposures Remotely pan and tilt the camera using your phone Manually pan and tilt the camera using the attached pan-tilt controller Make very large images by shooting a series of overlapping images in columns and rows per parameters you specify on your phone       (Note: third party stitching software is required to combine the images into a single composite) Make timelapse videos and panning timelapse videos by shooting a sequence of photos at a rate you specify on your phone       (Note: Third party software is required to combine the images into a video) Make a super-resolution photo by rapidly firing the shutter while moving the head       (Note: See Ian Norman's explanation of this technique here). Use sensors to trigger firing the shutter or running a program you create © 2008 The Gadget Works, All Rights Reserved