Wireless or Wired Remote

[davidy]

Wireless or Wired Remote Advantages/Disadvantages

I'm a bit of a lurker here having got my first Digital SLR a few months ago (Canon EOS350D), but slowly I'm getting to grips with it. I need the facility to take long exposure shots from a tripod or magic arm and want to avoid camera shake. Which is best Wireless or Wired.

Your comments much appreciated

davidy

[cbcbcb]

Not sure about the relative merits of wired and wireless remotes, but you can simply use the 10 second timer to avoid camera shake on the tripod.

[graham@edinburgh]

Wireless on any Canon SLRs is utterly useless. Well, certainly on the 300D & 20D.

Reason being, the frigging sensor's on the front

[cannedheat]

Doesn't the wired remote for the 350d allow 'bulb' setting as the switch can be locked where as the wireless one lacks this?

[graham@edinburgh]

Very possibly...I've got a wired one for the 1D and it does that and the wirelss one I had for the 300, didn't.

[S4E Jord]

Hi,

I have a 350d with a wireless remote. I find it very useful but like mentioned before, the sensor is on the front so you have to have it in the line of sight. Also worth noting the wireless has 2 functions, first is instant shot and the other is 2 sec. so you can get away with pointing the remote at the front and then moving it out of the way.

I will also buy myself a wired one for when i need to be befind the tripod.

Hope this helps.

Edited to add i have just checked out the bulb function for you. It does support this function.

You have to push the button once and it will open the lens then push it again to close.

Edited by S4E Jord on Sunday 21st January 19:47

[te51cle]

If you're using a tripod and you're standing there with it then use a wired remote. Easy and direct with no lag and no need to worry about the batteries going flat in your remote as well as your camera. I got a cheap one for my 350D for a fiver off ebay, works fine just not the same quality feel to it as Canon's own.

I've not tried a wireless one but I think there seemed to be about 3 types when I was looking last year, at least one of them will let you use one button press to open the shutter and another press to close it again. I don't like the look of those reflectors you're supposed to clip on with an elastic band around the lens much, very Heath Robinson and probably act like a sail flapping about on long exposures.

As it took me so long to type the above I see someone else beat me to it. S4E Jord maybe you can answer something that I have been wondering about, as the camera's IR remote sensor is at the front of the camera and as the image sensor is also sensitive to infra-red light. It strikes me that pointing an infra-red light source at front of the camera when the shutter is open isn't the world's best idea, you're likely to get strange white spots appearing on your pictures. Have you experienced this at all, particularly when the aperture is wide open ?

Edited by te51cle on Sunday 21st January 20:01

[S4E Jord]

te51cle said:

If you're using a tripod and you're standing there with it then use a wired remote. Easy and direct with no lag and no need to worry about the batteries going flat in your remote as well as your camera. I got a cheap one for my 350D for a fiver off ebay, works fine just not the same quality feel to it as Canon's own.

I've not tried a wireless one but I think there seemed to be about 3 types when I was looking last year, at least one of them will let you use one button press to open the shutter and another press to close it again. I don't like the look of those reflectors you're supposed to clip on with an elastic band around the lens much, very Heath Robinson and probably act like a sail flapping about on long exposures.

As it took me so long to type the above I see someone else beat me to it. S4E Jord maybe you can answer something that I have been wondering about, as the camera's IR remote sensor is at the front of the camera and as the image sensor is also sensitive to infra-red light. It strikes me that pointing an infra-red light source at front of the camera when the shutter is open isn't the world's best idea, you're likely to get strange white spots appearing on your pictures. Have you experienced this at all, particularly when the aperture is wide open ?

Edited by te51cle on Sunday 21st January 20:01

I havn't come accross this, but i have just done a few tests.

I took a couple of images in bulb mode and made sure that the IR remote was pointing straight into the lens. When looking at the pics i could not see any extra light on them. I tried in a number of places with differing light (ranging from a completely dark room to a normally lit room)

hope this helps.

for the record I have the Canon RC-1 remote.

[_dobbo_]

I had a wireless with my D70 and have wired with my D200. I can whole heartedly recommend wired, wireless is a bit hit and miss and as someone has already said, it's another set of batteries to fail at the worst possible moment!