Can I use a Yongnuo trigger and a Profoto Air Remote together on a Canon 5D Mark III with full TTL control?
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I’m trying to fire two off-camera flashes from a Canon 5D Mark III: a Profoto B1 and a Yongnuo YN600EX-RT on a Yongnuo YN622C II transceiver. On the camera, I mounted a YN622C II, then put a Profoto Air Remote TTL-C on its pass-through hot shoe. The Yongnuo flash seems to expose correctly in TTL, but the Profoto B1 is badly overexposed and the Air Remote keeps reverting to TTL/full output instead of staying in manual or reduced power. Is this setup supposed to work, or is there a limitation when stacking different-brand radio controllers?
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I would in this case, mount the Yongnuo trigger on the camera to fire the speedlight.
Go grab an optical trigger and attach it to the Profoto. If you need an extension cable to make it fire, then try that.
You will have to control the B1 manually.
Or, toss the Yongnuo and get another Profoto light so you have a uniform system that can be controlled with one control unit at camera.
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This setup is unlikely to give you reliable full TTL control for both systems at once. Stacking a Yongnuo trigger and a Profoto Air Remote means both devices are trying to interpret and pass Canon hot-shoe TTL communication, and that usually does not work cleanly across different radio systems.
Based on the answers, the practical options are:
- Put the Yongnuo trigger on the camera and use it to control the YN600EX-RT.
- Trigger the Profoto separately, for example with an optical trigger if possible.
- Expect to set the Profoto B1 manually rather than via TTL in this mixed setup.
- If you want unified remote TTL/power control from the camera, use one lighting ecosystem rather than mixing Yongnuo and Profoto controllers.
So you’re probably not doing anything wrong—the limitation is the combination of incompatible trigger systems, not a camera setting.
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