LC-5 Wireless Controller

If you want to trigger your camera, but can´t actually be next to it, then the LC-5 Wireless Controller may well be the answer. Used for remote photography mainly by wildlife and sports photographers, the LC-5 allows you to trigger the camera from up to 100m away using an infrared beam.

Being infrared, it does require a line-of-sight communication between the handheld transmitter and the remote receiver mounted on the camera, but to make it easier, the receiver unit is fitted with a rotating base so you can point it back towards your position.

For sports photographers, it can put you in places you couldn´t otherwise get to – behind the goal at Wembley Stadium, or above the boxing ring in Madison Square Garden.

For wildlife photographers, it´s less about where you can´t go, and more about where you´d rather not be – at the feet of an elephant at a watering whole, or at a favourite feeding spot for a lion. It enables intimate photography of difficult subjects from an unmanned, but not unattended camera.

As long as you can see the camera and are no more than 100m away, you can trigger the camera and capture images you´d otherwise be unable to achieve.

The unit offers four modes:

1. Single Shot – this mode captures an image when the shutter release is pressed.
2. Continuous mode – this mode fires the camera continuously from when the shutter is triggered until the button is pressed again or the camera runs out of buffer or memory card capacity.
3. Test mode – this mode lights a red LED on the receiver to confirm the units are working correctly.
4. Delay mode – this mode captures an image approx 3.5secs after the shutter button is pressed.

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