Can a Neewer 3-in-1 remote trigger the camera shutter and flash at the same time?

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I have a Neewer 3-in-1 remote system with one transmitter and four receivers. Can I use it to trigger my camera shutter and also fire off-camera flashes from the same button press? The receivers have a flash/camera switch on the side, so I’m not sure whether they can do both at once. My goal is to use the transmitter as a remote shutter release while also firing a Neewer 670 flash and another manual flash.

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It's extremely unlikely, even if you could get the remote to fire both camera and flash, that they would be in sync.

Remember there is a (small) delay from pressing the shutter button, the only way to reliably sync the flash with the shutter is to have the camera itself trigger the flash(es).

If you did manage to get the remote to fire both, it's highly likely that the flash would fire before the shutter has started to open.

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Not reliably from one simultaneous trigger. While these types of radio triggers can often be used either as a flash trigger or as a shutter remote, firing both at the exact same moment usually won’t sync correctly. The flash is likely to fire before the shutter is actually open.

The reliable method is to let the camera trigger the flash. In practice, that means using one trigger setup as the shutter remote, then having the camera trigger the flashes separately—typically with a transmitter on the camera hot shoe and receivers on the flashes.

If you want remote shutter plus off-camera flash, use a separate transmitter/receiver set for the shutter release and keep the flash triggers on a different radio channel. That way, pressing the remote releases the camera, and when the camera fires, it triggers the flashes at the correct time.

So the switch basically means a receiver is being used for one role or the other at a time, not both simultaneously in a synchronized way.

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