 Scott McCord |
Best Way to remotely fire camera What is the best way to remotely fire your camera from far away? I'm assuming it has to be a radio device. I photograph several weddings and have never experimented with triggering the shutter wirelessly. My goal is to place a camera in the balcony, a camera on the side of the sanctuary and a have a camera with me in the front of the sanctuary and remotely fire the side and balcony cameras while being in the front of the church. This will allow me to have photos from three different vantage points without actually having to be in three places at once. I'm assuming pocket wizards would work, but I'm not sure how they actually trigger the shutter on the camera. Any ideas?
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
You get the right kind of wires that fit the remote sockets of your cameras. You plug in a transmitter into the hand camera and plug in a receiver into the other cameras.
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Scott McCord |
Thanks, That makes sense!
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Raymond H. Kemp |
Check out Pocket Wizards. Pricy, but they work well for camera fire and/or flash. Ray
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
Feel like I should tell you that the transmitter can be placed in your hot shoe.
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Scott McCord |
Thanks, I'm fairly familiar with pocket wizards, but apparently not familiar enough to realize how they would fire a camera shutter...just thought they would fire strobes.
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Michael G. Paul |
Maybe you or someone else can help. Here is the problem my feeble brain is unable to solve: I know how trigger my camera remotely with Pocket Wizards. I put a PW receiver on the hot shoe of my camera and I use the off-the-camera PW trasmitter to trigger the camera. (I also have to use a cable from the PW receiver to to the motor drive slot of my camera to make it work.) The problem: How do I sych off-the-camera PW flashes when I am triggering the camera with the off-the-camera remote PW? I have used a PW receiver attached to an off-camera flash, but I can’t get the off-the-camera flash to sync with the camera remotely triggered by the off-the-camera PW. The flash fires and the camera clicks, but nothing is in sync? What should I do — I want to trigger the PW on the camera and the PW on the flash using the off-the-camera PW.
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
I think it's something about your flash. Or your pw batteries are getting weak.
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Raymond H. Kemp |
This is a "camera equalization" problem which is noted in detail in the Pocket Wizard Multimax manual. Not sure about Pocket Wizard models. Check your manual for the section covering "camera equalization. Ray
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
That sounds like you may need a second transmitter to go into the hotshoe.(Or pc outlet) If the remote flash gets triggered before the shutter completely opens, you won't be in sync. A flash in a hotshoe has to be triggered after the shutter completely opens(slrs with curtain shutters). Your pw probably does it simutaneously(sic), which is too fast.
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Michael G. Paul |
I will check into the “CE” problem, but in the meantime I was able to get the setup to sync. Simply put, using the same setup, what I had to do was to set the PW remote and the PW on the camera to the same channel (I used 2). Then I set the PW on the off-camera-flash to a different channel (I used 3). It worked. This was in the manual, but I did not comprehend it till now. Thanks for your help
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
I'm surprised that the other reciever worked on a different channel. What exactly did the manual say about it?
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