gator81 Loc: Jeffersonville Indiana

Hello, its been awhile, seen some hard days for awhile. As of now I have had a chance to work with my camera some more and I have a growing desire to learn light painting. I am having some promising results working with manual mode but to work with bulb I need a remote trigger and the more I look the more doubt I have. There was someone some time ago posted a suggestion but so many new ones have popped up I want to ask again.

Thoughts on a wifi remote trigger that will work well doing bulb mode so I can hold the shutter open remotely. It needs to work with the canon 70d as I have found that not all triggers will work with this camera.

thank you for any thought and ideas. I will add one of the pics I have been working on and realize that I still have a long way to go :/

twosummers Loc: Melbourne Australia or Lincolnshire England

Go with a wired one - Canon make them. Reliable and don't need batteries.

gator81 Loc: Jeffersonville Indiana

the problem with a wired one is that I need to be to far away from the camera for it to be very useful for light painting. when I am the one doing the light movements. If i had a 3rd person that could be an option but sometimes I am doing some of the testing by myself.

bleirer

https://www.usa.canon.com/internet/portal/us/home/explore/solutions-services/mobile-apps/camera-connect-compatibility

Your camera is on the compatible list for camera connect, free from Canon.

hcmcdole

If you have a smart phone, download Canon's free app to take control of the camera using Wi-Fi. A bit confusing to set up but once it is done, it works great (no need to buy a remote trigger). All my Canon cameras (SX-60, SX-700, and 80D) use the same app and my GoPro Hero 7 (using the GoPro app) work with my phone. I have the CamRanger that I rarely used for my Canon 7D when it was working. So happy that Canon and others included Wi-Fi in their newer cameras.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.co.canon.ic.cameraconnect&hl=en_US

gator81 Loc: Jeffersonville Indiana

I have the phone app also, and it seems to do ok as long as I am not near any other wifi systems. I keep getting my homes wifi causing my phone to always switch. I have even tried to set it up for just the camera and it did good for awhile and then kept loosing connection.
My experience has been disappointing with the app. That is the only reason I have been looking for recommendations on a wireless trigger that can also be used for bulb mode. I can also add that one that is not IR as it has to be a line of site and can cause issues too :/ I will keep looking and researching :) thanks

gator81 Loc: Jeffersonville Indiana

the only wireless one they show I have done a lot of research on and most of the canon owners that have used that one have had nothing but problems. There was 2 people that had no real issues with that wireless one for my camera on the canon site.
I even talked to a few people that are selling theirs and asked them why and they said they just had to many issues.
I am not trying to bash everyones suggestions, I wanted to explain that I have followed up on them and wanted to pass on what I found. I know that this is not the same for everyone, as for me I really want one that will not cause me a headache hehe

hcmcdole

It sounds like your phone is changing WiFi when it shouldn't. It may need something in the settings to keep whatever you connect to alive until the signal disappears or you manually switch it to a new hot spot.

Have you changed phones recently? I know I had to go through each camera's menu to remove the old phone (even though the 80D can have 3 devices that it will hold in its memory) before I could add my new phone. That was a bit of struggle because it seems to be a hidden feature of Canon when I tried to make the new phone connect to the old cameras.

gator81 Loc: Jeffersonville Indiana

Yes I have a new phone, the note 10+, and yes I agree with you. I did remove all the wifi on my phone, and set to only use the camera. It would work sometimes for awhile and then it would quit. When it did work it worked well but it become more and more of a problem :/

travisdeland Loc: deland, FL

You want to look at the Vello line of shutter remotes. I use the Shutter Boss and have been very happy with it. I bought mine(for canon) for around $50

gator81 Loc: Jeffersonville Indiana

I am looking into them, thank you

jodevine1 Loc: St. Augustine

I am also trying to learn llong exposure photography. I purchased a remote from B&H recently. It's a Canon RS-60E3. It is not wireless. Be careful when shopping because not all remotes are compatible with the 70D.
I also have the canon 70D. If you have any tips for long exposures, please post them. I need help...

gator81 Loc: Jeffersonville Indiana

I have studied more on light photography, there are some really good youtube videos that help start including some diy stuff for lighting.
for me I am using Manual mode with a 10s delay and the 2s delay on the camera around 200iso and after getting my focus point setting the lens to manual focus. I have also been playing with the white balance in Kelvin, between 4800-5500 as for lighting it helps for me so far.
The bad thing about manual is that your limited to working with a timer, one for the camera delay and the other for how long to keep the shutter open. Also manual will max out at 30 secs I believe.
I want to test bulb as it will hold open as long as you have the shutter pushed, or if wireless as long as you have your shutter trigger button pushed. I have read where some people have had shutter open up to 5 mins. For light painting that can be alot hehe.
With light painting and a person I have noticed that with long exposure in a dark room, I could use a speed flash and get some nice multi exposure shots. I used a speedflash that I triggered with my hand, when the timer opened the shutter, I would press the speedflash trigger I had in my hand, and then quickly move to the left and look up and trigger the flash again. when looking at the results it almost looked like I had done a multi exposure shot. It was another method as most dslr cameras and up have a multi exposure shooting setting where you can do it that way too.
Last I can only say is to practice, practice, practice... Just like learning to drive a car, the more you drove and practiced the better you could get.
have fun.