Benro Connect is designed to control the Polaris Smart Electric Tripod Head and Theta Smart Modules, delivering an uparalleled experience in long-distance photography.
[Polaris Smart Electric Tripod Head]
With the app connected to Polaris, you can remotely control the shooting angle and preview your shots in real-time on your mobile device via Wi-Fi or cellular networks, offering great flexibility. The app supports various programmable shooting modes such as time-lapse, panoramic shooting, and sunrise/sunset time-lapse. Additionally, when paired with the optional Astro kit, Polaris can be transformed into a professional equatorial mount, allowing you to easily capture stars using the GoTo feature and automatically track stars for long-exposure shots without star trails.
[Fine-Tuning and Remote Control]
By wirelessly connecting the app with Battery Module and Camera Control Module, you can not only fine-tune the leveling but also achieve precise remote camera control, including live view, parameter adjustments, and media file management, making the shooting process more efficient and flexible.
[Holy Grail Time-Lapse Shooting]
By wirelessly connecting the app with Battery Module, Camera Control and Optical Sensor Module, enabling real-time ambient light detection. The Camera Control Module can then combine sensor input with advanced algorithms to dynamically adjust exposure settings, ensuring smooth transitions from day to night (and vice versa) for Holy Grail time-lapse photography.
[Live Streaming]
By wirelessly connecting the app to Battery Module and GoLive Module, you can easily enable real-time live streaming.
It took a week for customer service to respond to a password reset request, so that wasn’t great. We are still missing 2 star alignment, which many Astro photographers believe would significantly improve the star tracking. Holy grail seems to work well so that is positive.
Expensive and great hardware but an awful app
iSasy
This app and its capabilities renders the hardware useless. The alignment method is insufficient and it doesn’t work consistently. The UI is awful. The camera interface doesn’t function properly and overall makes this awesome hardware almost completely useless. The focusing is incredibly hard with the app and sometimes, I just align then disconnect the camera to focus and by some miracle able to take a few photos before something else goes wrong. If I knew about the horrible app experience, I would have never dropped $1200+ on the hardware.Please fix this.
Terrible
cantor99
Can’t connect to a7riii with iOS 16 without turning off cellular. Once connected you can’t get the camera in live mode so you have no visual. You can’t kill the app without resetting your phone. Returned the Benro Polaris. Nice try but it is far from a usable product.
Unable to connect to apple macbook pro M1
dwmetzler
All seesm well if running off iphone, but can not connect to mac book pro with M1 chip as stated in information sestion. Love the platform but it would be noce if it worked as stated for Macbook Pro M1.
This update announces that the Benro Polaris app has officially been renamed to Benro Connect. Along with a redesigned homepage, both Polaris and Theta smart module features are now integrated into the Benro Connect app. Here's an overview of the key updates:
I. Theta Smart Module Software Features
Notice: These features require the use of Theta Battery Module.
1. Pairing with Theta Battery Module and GoLive Module enables live streaming.
2. Pairing with Theta Battery Module and Camera Control Module enables fine-tuned leveling and remote camera control shooting.
3. Pairing with Theta Battery Module, Camera Control Module, and Optical Sensor Module enables the Holy Grail shooting.
II. Polaris Updates and Optimizations
Notice: This verison requires Polaris firmware >=6.0.0.48, update App to this verision before Polaris firmware update.
1. Added Optical Sensor Module control in Polaris' Holy Grail mode, allowing for dynamic exposure adjustments.
2. Added a new pause function for Panoramic Shooting in Polaris.
3. Improved Polaris' Focus Stacking mode for enhanced performance.
Version 1.5.1
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Information
Seller
Benro Image Technology Industrial Co., Ltd.
Size
342.6 MB
Category
Photo & Video
Compatibility
Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
Apple Vision Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
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