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SLR goes wireless!
Date of Review: Dec 22, 2002
The Bottom Line: Great buy for the money! Great little toy opening a whole new world of exposure control.
Bought the RC-1 for long exposures with my EOS Elan 7E, in which pressing the shutter can potentially move camera and fuzz the exposure (no matter how rock steady my tripod may be). I had a hard time deciding between this and the wired version of the same remote. I finally figured wireless would be better, especially for studio shots with human subjects. It allows you to focus and then stand closer to your subject at the time of final composition and shooting. The wired version was also more expensive! (can you believe it?)
I simply love this little toy! It is small, comes with a plastic attachment to the camera's neck strap (so you don't lose it) and has two modes of operation: immediate release and 2 second delay. For bulb shots, you click it once to open the shutter and again to close it.
But what really gets me is the unusual ability of this (infrared) remote to penetrate obstructions on the way to the camera. The remote (somehow...) gets passed objects between the camera and the remote, unlike your ordinary infrared remote. Almost as if it were a radio controler. I had to turn it completely away from the camera to not have the caera respond. The beam went straight through my hand!
The RC-1 also measured a good distance (about 5m, as claimed by Canon), more then I will ever need.
Just one downside, the remote will only work in single shot mode, no continuous shooting.
Other than that: great buy for the 24 bucks spent (B&H)
