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kaplah wrote:
How would those help with the OP's desire for "shooting long exposure mostly"? They don't have a timer function.
The ML-L3 is handy enough when you use it, since in either "bulb" or the new "--" (timer?) mode, you just click the shutter open, run a timer on your watch or phone, and then click the shutter closed.
I wish Nikon would have the same feature as the new Canon 7D mk2, and probably all future advanced-amateur and pro Canons, where you can program the Bulb exposure to a specific time. Maybe that'll come in future updates / cameras.
Intervalometers are so complicated, even though I own three or four of them, I still use the ML-L3 when I'm just doing something quick and dirty.
However, I will say that when you want to do something very particular, I'm a big fan of the "Michron" device from Alpinelabs so far. It eliminates the two main quibbles I always have with ordinary cable releases / interval timers:
1.) The cable is an interchangeable audio cable, instead of the permanent cable that always seems to short out or rip out after just a few months of heavy use,
2.) The battery is a button battery that has an impressive 2000+ hours of life, instead of the stupid AAA batteries that most remotes take, and always seem to be half-dead if you use rechargeable Eneloops.
It needs to be programmed from your phone, but for me that's not a show-stopper because you can un-plug your phone as soon as you click "begin", you don't have to have your phone connected to your camera or the Michron device, like other mobile OS-based intervalometers.
As far as wireless triggers are concerned, I dunno. I just haven't had the best luck with them in the past. My favorite is the "Aputure Coworker", but it has to separate parts, one that has to connect to the camera to enable the radio wireless control. It's nice though, because you can monitor and begin/end your exposures via radio signal, instead of IR, so you can do it from a pretty impressive distance. I just have an aversion to carrying around so many different kinds of batteries I guess...
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