Can a Godox X1T remotely fire my camera shutter and trigger an AD200 at the same time?

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I want to use a Godox AD200 off-camera and also release the camera shutter while I’m away from the camera. Can I do this with two X1T transmitters—one on the camera hot shoe and one in my hand—or do I need other gear? If it is possible, how should the units be connected and set up?

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No, this setup won't work. You're close, but not quite right. The X1T is not a receiver (hence, the "T" suffix) or transceiver — it is a transmitter only. So one X1T cannot trigger another X1T.

You still need all the pieces you mentioned, but you also need an X1R to trigger the camera shutter. With wireless remote shutter and flash, you have two events:

  1. The first event is the wireless signal to trigger the shutter. This is accomplish with an X1T + X1R pair (transmitter + receiver). The X1T is in hand, the X1R is cabled to the camera's shutter release port. Do not put the X1R into the camera's hotshoe.

  2. The second event is the camera signaling the hotshoe flash to fire. This triggers the second X1T to pop the AD200 (i.e., the 2nd receiver).

Make sure the X1T+X1R pair are using a different channel than the X1T+AD200 pair.

(See also: Godox - operate camera and speedlight remotely discussion at dpreview.com)

It does seem sort of silly to have two X1's attached to the camera (one attached only by shutter release cable, the other mounted in the hotshoe), but it's really not different than using a X1T+AD200 in conjunction with a different brand dedicated wireless shutter release (such as the Vello Shutterboss, or Phottix Aion, etc.). In fact, personally, I'd probably go that route (if only because dedicted remote shutter releases can also have timers, delay timers, sequences, etc., that you can't do with a simple X1T flash/shutter trigger remote.

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Not with two X1T units alone. The X1T is a transmitter only, so it cannot receive a shutter signal from another X1T.

To do remote shutter + off-camera flash in the Godox X1 system, you need:

  • one X1T in your hand as the shutter transmitter
  • one X1R connected by cable to the camera’s shutter-release port
  • a second X1T on the camera hot shoe to trigger the AD200

How it works:

  1. The handheld X1T sends the shutter command.
  2. The X1R receives it and fires the camera shutter.
  3. The camera’s hot shoe then triggers the on-camera X1T.
  4. That X1T fires the AD200 wirelessly.

Important: the shutter-control pair and the flash-trigger setup should use different channels/groups so they don’t interfere.

A simpler alternative mentioned by users is a Flashpoint SPT transceiver, which can combine shutter relay and flash triggering, but that option is brand/market-specific.

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