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Hardware for camera array trigger

Started Aug 30, 2017 | Discussions thread
shutterdeck New Member • Posts: 9
Re: Hardware for camera array trigger

Hi, pardon some of the language on the site. I threw that up quickly more as a portfolio piece. It's not a mass market product. I'm a photography hobbyist and designer.

What it means is that the device triggers the pulse to all cameras simultaneously, rather than slower ways via usb hubs, etc, where pulses to a camera array are sent 10s to perhaps 100s of milliseconds apart at unpredictable intervals. So of course cameras in an array connected to my device would still be subject to the small mechanical differences in each camera, if that's what you meant. But the signal that tells each camera to fire is sent to all cameras at the *same exact time*, unlike other solutions I've seen out there. And if you see the sample images on the site, you see that the results are pretty good. Those examples were shot with an array of 10 Nikon D80s.

You might be right that not all cameras support 3-wire remote anymore, but I've been using Nikons up to D610 and and we have not had support issues. What I aimed to achieve with this version is support for a lot of cameras, not necessarily the very newest cameras.

While perhaps not a panacea, I wanted to create something that would be easy to use to people who need this kind of shot right now. But I appreciate your feedback and I'm happy to answer more questions about it. I would certainly love to support all cameras, but at this point I'm just one guy with limited resources to put into it.

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