I'm looking at wireless remotes to use with my D7100 and the Vello looks like it will serve my purposes but non of the ads I've found for it say whether or not it will work with the D7100. Anyone here know if they'll work together? Also, if anyone has any experience with them, good or bad, I'd love to hear about it. I plan to use it mostly for wildlife photography. Thanks
Vello FreeWave Plus Wireless Remote Shutter Release - 2.4GHz (for Nikon) for D7100?
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I was finally able to find out that it does indeed work with the D7100 and ordered one last week. Got home tonight and found it waiting for me in the mailbox. Couldn't wait to try it out so I set up my tripod in the house and gave it as much of a test run as possible in the confined space of the house and thought I'd share my test results with the group.
I haven't found a single thing about it that I don't like so far. User instructions are short and concise and easy to understand. It's so simple I expect most folks could figure out how to use it without even reading them, (although I'm not recommending that). I set it up in the living room, pointed it towards the kitchen where my wife and granddaughter were busy baking cookies and took a series of shots while figuring out what camera settings would work best with the indoor lighting. The remote worked to perfection each and every time. It didn't seem to matter one iota whether I was standing behind, in front of, or to either side of the camera, worked where ever I stood. But what really knocked my socks off was when I took it into different rooms at opposite ends of the house and fired it right through the walls and it still worked absolutely flawlessly. Having given it only this one small test I can't really say conclusively that this unit has no faults but so far I'm completely happy with it. More tests to come, hopefully tomorrow, outside, weather permitting, and at longer ranges.
I haven't found a single thing about it that I don't like so far. User instructions are short and concise and easy to understand. It's so simple I expect most folks could figure out how to use it without even reading them, (although I'm not recommending that). I set it up in the living room, pointed it towards the kitchen where my wife and granddaughter were busy baking cookies and took a series of shots while figuring out what camera settings would work best with the indoor lighting. The remote worked to perfection each and every time. It didn't seem to matter one iota whether I was standing behind, in front of, or to either side of the camera, worked where ever I stood. But what really knocked my socks off was when I took it into different rooms at opposite ends of the house and fired it right through the walls and it still worked absolutely flawlessly. Having given it only this one small test I can't really say conclusively that this unit has no faults but so far I'm completely happy with it. More tests to come, hopefully tomorrow, outside, weather permitting, and at longer ranges.
BackdoorArts
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Sorry I missed your question a couple weeks ago. I have a pair of them and use them with every Nikon body I've had. I like that I can set them so that one trigger can do multiple cameras or they can trigger independently depending on how I set the DIP switches. Very hand to have around.
No problem, no way to keep up with all the posts here unless you're on here 24/7. Glad you replied though, I was beginning to think I had cooties or something. ( :
I probably won't be using it to trigger more than one camera but I can see where that would be handy in some instances. I guess you'd need to buy an extra receiver for the second camera? I bought it mostly to reduce camera shake on the long shots that are often the only option with wildlife but I had a good time just playing around with it in the house this evening.
The only problem I had wasn't with the remote but with the live view focusing on the 7100. Love that camera but don't understand why they set up the liveview focusing that way. One of the very few things about it that I'd change if I could. Never bothered me before because I always shoot through the viewfinder but shooting wildlife with the tripod and using the remote it would be nice to be able to see the screen from a distance and know that you were in focus. May be a way to do that but I haven't figured it out yet if there is. I'll do some more experimenting tomorrow and see if there's a work-around.
BackdoorArts
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Not sure exactly what it is you're trying to do with Live View and why focusing might be an issue, or why you feel the need to use LV focusing (feel free to give some details). Unless you're talking about using LV to do the focusing since you can zoom in on it. That's a tried and true method, but takes a bunch of steps - turn on LV, focus, zoom, check the focus and refocus as necessary, disengage LV, turn off AF, shoot the photo - that can often cause you to miss the shot. If you're not disengaging then I will warn you that LV is not your friend with a long lens because the mirror is moving around way too much in the process of a single shot and that in and of itself will give you all sorts of camera movement.
I figured out the problem. It was the dummy operating the camera...... Somehow or another the focus point had found it's way up into the left hand corner of the frame and I didn't realize it. No idea how it ended up in there but for obvious reasons I was having a lot of trouble getting the girls in focus. Since testing out the new remote was my priority at the moment and not really concerned with the quality of the pics just then, instead of taking time to figure out the focusing problem I just assumed it was how liveview was set up, though it made no sense. So anyway, it seemed that the quickest solution was to use all 51 focus points and hope for the best, but that didn't work out too well. But I think I'm good to go now that I took the time to figure out what I was doing wrong. Maybe in five or six years I'll know my way around this camera. ( : Thanks Jake.