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 p.1 #6 · p.1 #6 · Looking for Remote Controller for Sony A7RIV | |
EDIT: This post turned out to be complete gibberish and falsehood, feel free to disregard!!!
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I regret that with some newer Sony models it is no longer possible - to the best of my knowledge - to use a more traditional kind of intervalometer, such as my Pixel TW-283. (the article describes its use with a different camera system, but that's just a matter of which wire you use between the wireless receiver and the camera body)
It is utterly, utterly reliable in my experience. Batteries last for years. It keeps on going in cold conditions. It has impressive range - I once returned indoors for a hot drink, leaving my camera running outside in the garden during a timed sequence of astro-shots I was taking... I only realised, minutes later, that I still had the wireless trigger in my pocket with me, and not outside near the camera... so I rushed back outside, worried the camera wouldn't have been shooting... but the receiver had been picking up the trigger commands successfully the whole time, at a distance and through walls, it had kept on going. It gives me all the intervalometer functions I could want... and I trust it to really work, on all the cameras I presently own.
But the newest Sonys no longer have the USB 2 port that it and other remote triggers require for sending shutter-firing commands to the camera. So, unless I am mistaken (and I would be glad to be!) the only way to remote-trigger Sonys nowadays (such as the A7C and A1) is with bluetooth accessories and the like, which are more limited, often more expensive, and more specific to camera brand etc. Bluetooth works, sort of... in principle... but in my experience, in every bluetooth gadget I own... there is a certain degree of flakiness and unreliability. Range constraints. Worse battery life. Devices going to sleep a lot so that they have a wake-up-time lag when you go back to use them after a few minutes' inactivity. Etc. One has to control, by convoluted and easily-forgotten means, which device your bluetooth widget is talking to today, and which not (whereas with an intervalometer like mine that is controlled very straightforwardly by the physical fact of which camera the receiver is plugged into!)
Perhaps the wireless, bluetooth triggers that one must use now are a lot better than I pessimistically give them credit for. I would like to hope so - haven't been forced to convert away to one yet, so in time I guess I'll find out.
For the sake of the OP... I think the A7Riv still has the USB 2 port, does it not? Probably one of the last models still to have that port, rather than only a USB 3 type-C port that can't (I think?) take shutter commands. In which case, my delightful old intervalometer and others like it are perhaps still an option if you're interested.
Edited on Jan 18, 2022 at 05:43 PM · View previous versions
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