Fujifilm Bluetooth Wireless Remote Shutter Release with M5Stack

A couple of weeks ago, in our FR-reader wishlist roundup, FR-reader Keith wished for the following: a wireless remote shutter release for a Fuji GFX100 II, that does not require a transmitter and cable connection, and does not require a phone, like Canon is offering with the Canon BR-E1.

Well, there seems to be a DIY solution for that, as also mentioned by Keith. You’ll have to use the M5Stack M5StickC Plus ESP32-PICO Mini IoT Development Kit.

So, first you have to get the M5Stack, which is available globally at Amazon. There is also a newer version of the M5Stack, which you still don’t find everywhere, but it is listed also at some Amazon branches such as Amazon DE here and Amazon IT here, but you can also get it at shop.m5stack.

In any case, it will work with all of these M5Stack versions.

Once you have the device you load the firmware available at Github here on it. The firmware upload can now also be done via the installer web page here.

Done that, it will work as a bluetooth wireless remote shutter release.

You can see the list of Fujifilm cameras on which it has been tested to work at Github here.

On the project page, there is a section for ‘Installation’ (see here) which has a link to the recommended ‘Easy Web Install’ (see here).

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