After having complained about the lack of wireless support from Nikon, they announce the WU-1a wireless adapter. This is brilliant, especially if Nikon will provide a good iPad and iPhone experience with it. The main benefit is that it is so small that you can easily put it into your bag, not costing a lot of weight. At the moment the only camera that is supported is the D3200, which is a pity. It should work with the D800 as well, given that it was only just released. Their current solution, the WT-4,1 is not only expensive, but it is also large, and not easy to use thanks to a lack of mobile support. The adapter for the D4 is better, because it is smaller.
The irony is that with this adapter the D3200 will be the best DX camera you can buy from Nikon, even though with only 12 bit readings the image quality will likely be a bit lower than the D7000. But that matters less than the improvement to shooting you will get from the adapter, which will finally be easy enough to use that you will actually want to use it in the field.
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The WT-4 does not seem important enough to warrant its own product page↩