Remote Camera Trigger

Shutter App for Canon: remote shooting has never been so easy

Feb 5, 2025 Alex Baker

If you’ve ever struggled to use a camera remote in the past, you’ll understand how finicky it can be. Similarly, controlling long bulb exposures for…



Oh, snap: make a wired remote switch for your Canon camera, no soldering required – just plug and click

Oct 20, 2024 David Prochnow

The days when shutter release buttons had a threaded socket for receiving a cable release are long gone. Until the advent of the self-timer, whether…



Lumionix Komet is “the most advanced camera trigger yet”

Nov 17, 2023 John Aldred

I’ve been using camera triggers of one sort or another for over twenty years. I’ve even built some of my own. So, when I see…



SPARK wants to turn your iPhone to a camera with a brain

Aug 9, 2023 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

MIOPS, an innovative camera tech company, launched its Kickstarter campaign for SPARK. It’s a brilliant iPhone camera accessory that wants do be your faithful companion…



How I made a DIY remote mechanical cable release for my large format cameras

Jan 14, 2022 Cheng

If you have been reading my blog or watching my YouTube channel, you would know that I do mainly large format photography. I often take…



Fashion photographer, Greg Williams shoots Vogue session remotely using actor’s phone

Sep 15, 2021 Alex Baker

In this intriguing TikTok video, fashion photographer Greg Williams tells how he shot actor Zendaya for Vogue when they were thousands of miles apart on…



Syrp’s new Genie Micro is an all-in-one smart remote controller for your camera

Dec 9, 2020 John Aldred

Syrp has announced their new Genie Micro. Unlike other devices that bear the Genie name, this one isn’t a pan head or slider motor. In…



The MIOPS FLEX is the ultimate external camera trigger

Nov 25, 2020 John Aldred

MIOPS, the company that brought you the Mobile trigger, Capsule360 Motion Box and the Splash trigger, is back with a new project, the MIOPS FLEX,…



This is the most frugal DIY clamp for high speed laser triggers

Oct 21, 2020 Ted Scott

A few years ago, I became interested in what stuff looks like when falling through space. Specifically, I wanted to see the accidental shapes which…



Nikon releases weird flash triggers that hang off the side of your camera and they’re “only” $200

Oct 19, 2020 John Aldred

Nikon’s been long criticised for not having any decent kind of wireless control system since they switched from the optical CLS/AWL to the new radio…