Remote camera help

[vernest]

Hi!

I am shooting with a D5. In my collection sits also a D700. And I thought that it will be a good remote camera. Considering that pocket wizards are still expensive (and somehow hard to get) i look for other solutions.

Yongnuo rf603n II seemed like the perfect solution. The kit contains 2 triggers + one 10pin cable.

With one trigger connected with the wire and the second one hold in hand, the system works.

But I want to trigger it when I press the shutter from the other camera, which doesn't happen, if I just put it into the hotshoe.

In pocket wizards videos I saw that the transmitter needs also to be wired to the camera so I bought another cable and connected it through the 10pin interface. The results were the same, no triggering when shutter button is pressed.

What am I missing?

 

[GMSchneider]

Hey vernest,

With the RF603 triggers, you can't use a trigger mounted in the hotshoe to remote trigger another camera. I ran across this same issue a while ago and just tried again to make sure. So I would suggest two options. First, you could purchase a footswitch for a guitar to trigger the remote camera. Option two is buying RF605 triggers which will do what you are trying to do. If you go this option, do note, they have to be in the RF602 mode and not RF603 (you can switch between the two). Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but you're gonna need to buy different triggers.

 

[vernest]

Thank you! Actually those are good news

I also found the pedal as a solution and it seems that is actually more versatile than the on camera route. The only thing is that I hate cables and when in a crowd of photographers it could be a tricky thing to setup.

The other triggers will be bought probably second hand, it seems that (at least in europe) there are not to be found....

 

[vernest]

Unfortunately the foot pedal solution didn’t work. I tried around 10 models from different vendors, no fire of the remote camera. If someone has an exact model that worked on their setup, please post.

It seems that, without buying the other model, my only solution for now is to create a foot pedal for this tiny remote (maybe with lego bricks)?

 

[GMSchneider]

So I just tried my Yongnuo 605s with a foot pedal and no, it doesn't trigger the remotes. The pedal works fine with PocketWizards, so it doesn't appear as though Yongnuo's support this feature.

 

[Dak on cam]

Hi!

I am shooting with a D5. In my collection sits also a D700. And I thought that it will be a good remote camera. Considering that pocket wizards are still expensive (and somehow hard to get) i look for other solutions.

Yongnuo rf603n II seemed like the perfect solution. The kit contains 2 triggers + one 10pin cable.

With one trigger connected with the wire and the second one hold in hand, the system works.

But I want to trigger it when I press the shutter from the other camera, which doesn't happen, if I just put it into the hotshoe.

In pocket wizards videos I saw that the transmitter needs also to be wired to the camera so I bought another cable and connected it through the 10pin interface. The results were the same, no triggering when shutter button is pressed.

What am I missing?

The Yongnuo triggers are very versatile but they achieve this by being very particular what gets triggered by what.

When a trigger is triggered by the hotshoe, it sends a signal to all triggers (including itself) "fire your hotshoe". The TX/TRX switch only affects the operation of the button.

When set to TX, the button does the same as the hotshoe contact: trigger all flashes. When set to TRX, the button instead sends a signal to all triggers set to TRX to trigger the connected camera.

So your solution is: get another trigger cable, set both triggers to TRX, and trigger your first camera not using its own trigger button but rather the connected Yongnuo trigger (using it as a cable trigger). You probably don't want to place any of the remote triggers in a camera hotshoe though so that each camera stays in control of its own flashes (they will have different delays from shutter press to open shutter).

Using the camera shutter button instead will not work. You need to trigger with the Yongnuo.