Yongnuo RF-602 questions

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I've been looking at these kits for a while, and some sellers on the bay list the ability to be used as wireless shutter releases as well as flash triggers, can anyone enlighten me as to how that works?

I've got a Canon 40D and would like to be able to wirelessly trigger the shutter, and transmit to the flash at the same time, is that possible?

Which bit of the kit acts as the shutter release? The squarer bit that sits on you camera hotshoe or the more rectangular one that attaches to your flashgun? If I was to buy a kit with one of the squarer transmitter bits and two of the receivers, would that allow me to trigger the remote flash with the second flash receiver? Does it require any additional cables?

Any photos or your kits set up as described would be awesome so I can get my head round it :)

Cheers guys and gals

Matt
 
The square transmitter, which would usually sit on top of your camera, acts as the wireless shutter release.

You then attach one of the receivers (which would usually attach to your flash) to your camera with one of the supplied cables (most sellers will ask if you use Canon or Nikon when you order).

You then just press the button on the square thing and it will release the shutter.

As to your second question, I have tried doing the above by using a second receiver on a remote flash. It all fired as it should, as in the flash went off when I released the shutter, but none of it was in sync so the flash wasn't actually captured. So to answer your question, I personally couldn't get it to work this way, and from looking online it wasn't possible. But if someone else has managed it I'd be very interested to know how they got it all synced correctly.

Hope that helps. I don't have any pics at the moment, however I wouldn't hesitate in recommending them as they are fantastic.
 
These are for flash units - a transmitter which goes on the camera and a reciever which is mounted on the flash.

RE the shutter, you need a remote, something like a Canon RC5
 
To do what you want, you'd need 2 kits.

One kit set to one frequency, becomes your "wireless trigger" - the small bit has a button, which you press, and the "receiver" plugs into the camera with a cable.

You'll then need another kit, set to a different frequency, where the small bit sits on the hotshoe, and the other bit on the bottom of the flash.

The advantage here, is that with 2 kits, you can either do this, or have 2 flashes triggered by one transmitter, or even 1 set of flashes triggered by 2 cameras - and you can just add and add more transmitters or receivers :)
 
feriso said:
These are for flash units - a transmitter which goes on the camera and a reciever which is mounted on the flash.

RE the shutter, you need a remote, something like a Canon RC5
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As said above, the transmitter has a shutter release button and can be used as a remote. I've had it setup with with two remote flashes and a camera mounted flash, all fitted with a receiver, the receiver on the camera has a cord which you attach to the camera. Then just use the transmitter to take the shot. this was just with some product photography and worked fine.

One transmitter, 3 receivers.

edit: the above post sounds a better way to do it though.
 
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The problem with using just 1 transmitter and multiple receivers, is that you've got the chance that the camera takes a little bit longer to respond to the request to take the photo (if, for example, it's auto-focusing), and by that time, the flashes may have gone off.

By having 2 sets, the camera will only fire the flash when it's ready for the flash.
 
Confused said:
To do what you want, you'd need 2 kits.

One kit set to one frequency, becomes your "wireless trigger" - the small bit has a button, which you press, and the "receiver" plugs into the camera with a cable.

You'll then need another kit, set to a different frequency, where the small bit sits on the hotshoe, and the other bit on the bottom of the flash.

The advantage here, is that with 2 kits, you can either do this, or have 2 flashes triggered by one transmitter, or even 1 set of flashes triggered by 2 cameras - and you can just add and add more transmitters or receivers :)
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Ah right, so I would just need another transmitter then it seems :)
 
Confused said:
The problem with using just 1 transmitter and multiple receivers, is that you've got the chance that the camera takes a little bit longer to respond to the request to take the photo (if, for example, it's auto-focusing), and by that time, the flashes may have gone off.

By having 2 sets, the camera will only fire the flash when it's ready for the flash.
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Yeah you're right, definitely a more robust setup. I was using the setup I mentioned for product photography, all manually focussed and everything nice and close to each other, probably why I didn't get any issues. Your setup makes far more sense, I probably just got lucky!
 
Cheers guys (especially confused), that has really helped clear things up :)

If I was to try to do it the way confused suggested it and brought 2 transmitters and 2 recievers, would I be able to adjust the frequency on one set, or do I need something more expensive to achieve that?

Matt
 
griffo_001 said:
Cheers guys (especially confused), that has really helped clear things up :)

If I was to try to do it the way confused suggested it and brought 2 transmitters and 2 recievers, would I be able to adjust the frequency on one set, or do I need something more expensive to achieve that?

Matt
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They all have switches for changing frequency, so you can easily set it up on the transmitters\receivers.
 
I use the yongnuo RF-602 trigger on top on the hotshoe, with two receivers on the flashes. I use a separate Hannahl wireless trigger plugged into the side of the camera rather than another Rf-602.
 
Wheres the cheapest place to get these?


Does the flash receiver have a hole in the bottom for attaching to a tripod?
 
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