I would like to know what kind of wireless transmitters do You use for applications where the distance between the transmitter and reciever is 100 meters or more? I need one for my wildlife photography so I could trip the shutter being quite far away.
I haven't found any that Nikon produces, or am I missing something?
All suggestions welcome.
This is one area of camera control that seems under-developed to me. The photix remotes claim 100 feet or so but I've only ever got mine to work out to about 50 feet with the D300.
Check out this example of how not to do it. I believe I read elsewhere he was using a pair of borrowed D1x cameras and PocketWizard transceivers. Note that the range he was using was 600ft.
As for Nikon gear, with a big enough antenna on the base the WT-4a should be able to make that range in the open and you can both remote trigger and focus with that solution. Be prepared to lighten your wallet though, by the time you buy a wireless router, the WT-4a, batteries, charger and Nikon Capture software you've probably spent over a grand.
All the pictures both in BH's page and Pocketwizards home pages show only one device. If I mount it on the camera as a reciever, then what is used as a transmitter?
To be fair you can also use a Sekonic L-358 with the PW module as a trigger or one of the cameras that had PW Inside installed (they did it for the D1x but nothing after that to my knowledge). Only caveat is that the range on these two is not as good as the regular PW transceiver. As far as I know the transmitters in the Plus are the same, but the Multimaxes which I use have more channels and functionality (trigger groups etc.)
Thank You camey!
So I need three things to make this work as a triger for my camera?
Two wizards and one cable? This solution does not look very compact to have the PW on the camera and also the cable, which also has a boxy thingy attached to it. So the whole setup will be quite huge from a bird's perspective. Please let me know if I got this worked out correctly.
If I did, then I would like to know if there is a more compact solution?
Yes, that's pretty much it. You know the D3 is not exactly a stealth camera to begin with, and the shutter noise is quite loud too. You don't actually have to mount the PW on the camera, since you're not using the flash trigger input. There are more compact solutions, the ML3 for example but you're lucky to get 10ft out of that thing, and it's definitely line of sight (about 15 degrees in either direction).
Go to a joke store and get a big rubber chicken. Place the whole thing over the PW and the cable/box. Problem solved :-)
cybersyncs can fire any camera with the correct adapter from flash zebra. Your setup would run you about 175 shipped. That will get you to roughly 400 feet. You can go up to around 800 feet for an additional 70 bucks. The cybersync receivers do double duty in repeater mode, but you'll lose a stop of shutter speed for the additional radio repeat time.
