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<blockquote data-quote="BF Hammer" data-source="post: 765832" data-attributes="member: 48483">I bought the genuine Nikon IR remote in 2007 right after buying my 1st DSLR. I have to say, I found it cumbersome to have to turn on the IR remote mode on the camera when I used it, and having to remember to hold the thing out in front of the camera on the side where the IR detector is located to have it work. I still have it, it works, and I only will use it for a self-portrait where I am in front of the camera.&nbsp; That is the intended purpose of these items. Actually the one time I worked a low-key wedding outdoors I remember working with 2 bodies where I had a wide lens set up on a tripod, and I used the IR remote for that. I walked around with another DSLR handheld and would just occasionally fire off a shot from the tripod camera using the remote. I get far more use with an aftermarket wired remote shutter release. They are equally inexpensive to buy, have no coin-cell to run dead, work in all light conditions including high noon outdoors, and you can stand behind camera and it will always work. You also get the half-push focus/exposure read. And then there are the intervalometer type which can also be used to take exposures longer than 30 seconds for astrophotography by setting the camera to bulb mode and programming the shutter on time on the remote. But that is a &quot;you need it when you actually need it&quot; sort of device.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BF Hammer, post: 765832, member: 48483"] I bought the genuine Nikon IR remote in 2007 right after buying my 1st DSLR. I have to say, I found it cumbersome to have to turn on the IR remote mode on the camera when I used it, and having to remember to hold the thing out in front of the camera on the side where the IR detector is located to have it work. I still have it, it works, and I only will use it for a self-portrait where I am in front of the camera. That is the intended purpose of these items. Actually the one time I worked a low-key wedding outdoors I remember working with 2 bodies where I had a wide lens set up on a tripod, and I used the IR remote for that. I walked around with another DSLR handheld and would just occasionally fire off a shot from the tripod camera using the remote. I get far more use with an aftermarket wired remote shutter release. They are equally inexpensive to buy, have no coin-cell to run dead, work in all light conditions including high noon outdoors, and you can stand behind camera and it will always work. You also get the half-push focus/exposure read. And then there are the intervalometer type which can also be used to take exposures longer than 30 seconds for astrophotography by setting the camera to bulb mode and programming the shutter on time on the remote. But that is a "you need it when you actually need it" sort of device. [/QUOTE]

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