Control your Canon Camera wirelessly

Re:Control your Canon Camera wirelessly by alanbernstein on Monday October 13, 2025 @01:02PM (#45570708)

I find the smartphone controller options for my Canon t6i so frustrating and dodgy, I gave up on them. The IR remote works for about 20 seconds and then the receiver shuts off for some reason. Practically useless for family portrait selfies.

Instead, I have a shutter release pedal, connected via a 50 foot audio extension cable, to the wired remote port on the camera. It's not compact or elegant, but it's easy, fast and reliable.

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Re:Control your Canon Camera wirelessly by exasperaited on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @05:49AM (#45590102)

FWIW, the venerable Yongnuo RF-602 flash triggers can do this well with the right camera cord connected to the receiver; I think it may even do half-press AF.

I kept a set around with cables for my Nikon D700 and D7000.

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Re:Control your Canon Camera wirelessly by alanbernstein on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @05:13PM (#45675206)

Thanks, will look into it. For some reason I thought all the RF options were super expensive, maybe not.

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