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AmazonBasics Wireless Remote Control for Nikon P7000, D3000, D40, D40x, D50, D5000, D60, D70, D7000, D70s, D80 and D90 Digital SLR Cameras

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This is really easy to use right out of the package. You just have to figure out how to set your camera to receive a wireless remote command.

Here's a video of me doing that for my D90. It's blurry, but it gets the point across, I believe. Good luck.

Bottom line, I'm very very happy to have this remote. It allows me to take pictures with friends without trying to hold the camera at arms length. I absolutely think everyone buying a nikon DSLR should get this along with it. It seems like a no-brainer must have accessory.

I just wanted to verify the despite being half the price of the Nikon badged item this is in my estimation a better product. The reasons for that evaluation are twofold. First, it comes with a better carrying case, a soft drawstring bag as opposed to Nikon's stiff plastic which uses velcro to secure it. Second, it is more powerful than Nikon's product. It has more range. My Nikon D90 only has an infrared receiver on the front left of the camera. None in the back. However indoors, this remote is powerful enough to trigger the camera with the remote behind the camera, using bounced signal off the ceiling or walls. I think this is a "best buy". I might add that I also own the Nikon product, also purchased from Amazon.

AmazonBasics Wireless Remote Control for Nikon works with most Nikon DSLR (including D3000, D40, D40x, D50, D5000, D60, D70, D7000, D70s, D80, D90) and Nikon P7000 camera. This is a simple product. One button to trigger the camera shutter. To use this remote, first remove the clear plastic battery insulator sheet (just need to do this one/first time), and it's ready to go. This remote can be used with the delayed remote mode or quick response remote mode. It can also be used for the long time exposure by setting the camera to M mode (manual mode) and when the remote is pressed 2 seconds in delayed remote mode, the shutter will remain open until the remote control is pressed again/the second time.

Three additional things (general condition to note when using this remote):
1. Sometime the camera will automatically cancel delayed remote or quick respose remote mode after idling for a while so you might need to set it again and this is normal (you can set how long you want the setting to stay before it revert to the normal mode)
2. When using built-in flash, the shutter remote will only trigger the shutter only after the flash is completely charged (with external flash it will not wait the flash to charged up fully so sometime photos can be underexposed if the external flash doesn't go)
3. The camera will autofocus (if it is set to autofocus mode) prior to taking the photo after you press the remote button so you don't need to autofocus beforehand

This is a comparable replacement for the Nikon ML-L3 remote control (i.e. both products are good, and work as it is intended). It is great for self/group portrait (using tripod) and long time exposure (reduce shake vs pressing the camera shutter button directly)

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not really a technical review but while the higher end X100 series may support this, it is my understanding the D3100 doesn't have the rec'vr built-in and therefore this will not work with a D3100.

FYI.

took me awhile to figure out how to set the d7000 for remote shooting, maybe i missed it in the manual, but in addition to setting remote control mode in the shooting menu, one has to rotate the dial underneath the (MASP auto scene U1 U2) dial to the picture of the remote. I swear up and down that isnt in the d7000 owners manual. Anyways, hope that helps anyone who was confused as i was. This item is definitely a must have

This remote worked wonders with my new Nikon D5100. It has a really good range (20ft+) and there was no setup involved. The one issue though is I would personally advise you to take the battery out after each use. It will be dead in 3-4 days. Nothing was sitting on it, pushing against it or inadvertently engaging the button. It just drains the battery while not in use. But other then that, good product.

This Amazon substitute for the Nikon IR remote is functional and a good value. i would have rated it higher than three stars, except that the instructions are abysmal and there is no way to tell if the battery is operating (e.g. no LED or other operating indicator).

Details:

We tested the remote with a Nikon D3000. A first note here is that you must make sure your camera is compatible with this remote. Not all of the Nikon SLRs have IR remote capability without adding an optional IR receiver. The D700 comes to mind as it would require an IR receiver that costs several times what this basic remote costs in order to use it.

As it turns out, I am a Canon user, so I turned over testing to my daughter and her friend who owns the aforementioned Nikon D3000. The two are first year high school students with 3.5 GPAs and take a lot of photos. They are not, however, photo equipment geeks like myself. Overall, they are probably a good measure of how easy this unit is to deploy the first time out.

The test took place without me there to coach. The first call for help came in after they'd churned around for fifteen or so minutes attempting to get the remote to do anything at all. What they had assumed was that they just needed to get the battery enabled, point the unit at the SLR remote window and press the button. Since this unit does not have any indicator that it is working other than the camera shutter releasing, they didn't know if the issue was in the remote or the camera. They'd read the instructions that came with the unit, and it pretty much centered on how to insert the button battery. What would have been nice would be to have a little LED or other indicator light up when the button is pressed so that one could know if the unit is operating. When they spoke with me, I recognized that they place they thought should light up (the IR window) contained just the IR sender LED and not a visible light. So, we moved on to the next step, setting the camera up to recognize the remote.

Nikon does some things well (e.g. grind nice lenses, make great FF sensors, etc.). They also do some things really strangely, perhaps poorly. Among the latter are the user menus on the D3000 that one needs to use to get to the remote control enable settings. Suffice it to say, this was painful. The two relatively bright girls were totally flummoxed by the obtuse "Jinglish" instructions regarding the remote enable menus. I ended up logging in to the Nikon website and finally searched out the instructions to enable IR remote on the D3000. It's about two menu levels in, as I recall. The bottom line here is, read up on this and check it out well before you need to use this feature.

Finally, once we got all the setup done, the remote worked like a charm. It was able to work from fifty feet away or more. We didn't test further than that. The beam is powerful enough that the girls were able to bounce it off of walls for triggering the camera out of the direct line of sight (off white walls in the location). Shutter lag is negligible.

So, once all the pre-use hassles were done, everyone was happy with the IR remote. As I said in the beginning, if the instructions included some detailed reference to where to look in the associated camera manual and if it had a small "pilot light" to let one know that it's working, I would give the IR Remote a four or five star rating. As it is, three stars is all this nearly direct ML-L3 rip off can get.

This remote works with the Nikon D5100 camera. The remote from Amazon works perfectly and it's cheaper than Nikon's remote, there is simply nothing more you can ask. If your thinking about a remote buy this one as it's cheaper and performs just as well!

I was a little worried that this device might not work with my Nikon D5100 and I was leaning toward the Nikon remote. However, since it was an Amazon product and Amazon has such a good reputation I took a chance and ordered the Amazon remote. It works great. It allows me to setup my camera on a tripod and take pictures of Hummingbirds without them seeing me and flying away. I plan to use it for family photography as well. It works as advertised right out of the box, all you do is pull the tab to activate the battery and the tricky part is with the camera setting, but I was able to make the remote work without referring to the camera's manual, pretty easy to use if you ask me.

overall i am very happy with this purchase. it came to me just as described. its small, lightweight, and very inconspicuous. the only problem with it, and the reason it did not receive 5 stars, is because it was shipped with a dead battery. after about 30 minutes of trying to figure out if it was user error, a broken product, or something wrong with the camera i decided i would return the product the next morning for a replacement. the next morning i remembered that my printer had recently died leaving me with no convenient way of printing the return label. so i gave it one last chance and for 3 dollar bought two addional batteries figuring if they didnt work in this one they would in some other product i own. a fresh new battery solved the problem and everything works perfectly fine.

overall a wonderful, cheap addition to any photography set up. i primarily use this for the bulb setting on manual for exposures longer than 30 seconds. Timable remote release cables usually only allow time incriments of 30 seconds to a full minute. this guy lets me have very precise time controls (93 seconds, 135 seconds, ect) to really have complete mastery over long exposures. works like a charm.

i just wish it had come with a working battery....