Can one trigger fire both a Yongnuo YN560 III and YN600EX-RT II?
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I have two Yongnuo speedlights: a YN560 III and a YN600EX-RT II. Can a single trigger control both flashes, or is there another way to fire them together at the same time?
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Yongnuo has a number of different incompatible radio triggering systems, and there is no transmitter unit that rules them all.
The two flashes you have are not in the same system. The only way to get them to work together would be if you added a receiver unit for one of the systems onto the other flash's foot.
The YN-560 III is in the 560/603 manual triggering system. While you can fire and remotely control the power on it with a YN-560-TX or YN-560-TX Pro, or YN-622 II transceiver or YN-622-TX transmitter in 603 mode, none of those transmitter units work with the built-in trigger in the YN-600EX-RT, which uses a clone of the Canon RT radio system.
To fire the 600EX-RT with a 560/603 transmitter unit, you'd have to add a Yongnuo RF-603 II or RF-605 transceiver to the foot of the YN-600EX-RT to act as a receiver. And you'd only be able to fire it in sync. You would have no way to remotely adjust any settings (such as power level) on the YN-600EX-RT, or to use TTL or HSS with it.
Similarly, to get the YN-560 III to fire along with a YN-E3-RT transmitter (which can remotely control the YN-600EX-RT and communicate TTL and HSS with it), you'd have to add a YN-E3-RX receiver unit to the foot of the flash. And because that flash's foot only has the sync pin on it, you'd only be able to fire it and not adjust its power or any settings.
Yongnuo attempted to combine the 560/603 and 622 systems together in the YN-560-TX Pro, but this combining only works with newer units, and does not include any of the Yongnuo RT gear. Frankly it's one big mess, and it's why a lot of folks moved away from Yongnuo and into the Godox system.
Godox only uses one single integrated 2.4 GHz radio system these days. Their TT600 is similar to a YN-560 IV, and their TT685 and TT685 II is similar to a YN-986 or YN-600EX-RT, only in the Godox radio system. And both of the flashes can work together with the Godox XPro, X2T, and XPro II transmitters. You'd not only be able to fire both flashes in sync, but to also have remote power control (by group), group on/off, and HSS. And the TTL-capable unit (TT685/TT685 II) would still retain TTL capability.
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Not with just one built-in Yongnuo radio system. These two flashes use different, incompatible Yongnuo/Canon-style radio systems:
- YN560 III: Yongnuo 560/603 manual system
- YN600EX-RT II: Canon RT-compatible radio system
So there is no single Yongnuo transmitter that directly talks to both flashes’ internal receivers.
To use them together, you’ll need to add an external receiver/transceiver to one of the flashes so both are on the same triggering system. For example, to fire the YN600EX-RT II from a 560/603-type setup, attach a Yongnuo RF-603 II or RF-605 to the flash’s foot. Then use matching transmitters/receivers on the same channel.
A general alternative is to use any compatible trigger-and-receiver system with a receiver on each flash, as long as both receivers are the same type and set to the same channel.
In short: no universal built-in trigger, but yes, you can make them fire together by adding a receiver to one flash and using one common trigger system.
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