Can Yongnuo YN-622N and YN-622C triggers work together across Nikon and Canon?
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I use Nikon and my friend uses Canon. If we each have Yongnuo YN-622 triggers—YN-622N for Nikon and YN-622C for Canon—can they trigger each other’s flashes at the same time? We want to know whether the Nikon and Canon versions are cross-compatible, and if not, whether there is any workaround.
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No, you can't.
To quote from v5.0 of The Other YN-622C User Guide II, page 20:
The Canon YN-622C is NOT compatible with the Nikon YN-622N. The camera codes are not the same.
This actually makes sense when you consider the completely different pin/contact arrangement on the hotshoe and the inevitable differences in signal protocols.
The only way I could theorize that you might be able to get YN-622 gear to work between both systems might be if you switched all the gear to 603 compatibility mode, or tried using the legacy mode that mirrorless shooters use, but then, of course, you'd lose all the added TTL/HSS/remote commanding capability of the 622s across systems.
Manual triggers, like the RF-603 II/YN-560-TX/YN-560III-IV/YN-660 combo might work, but you'd want to be sure that whatever unit you put onto the camera as the on-shoe transmitter is compatible with the specific camera body (check the pins on the foot).
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No. The Yongnuo YN-622C and YN-622N are not cross-compatible, so you cannot use them together normally to trigger Nikon and Canon flashes across both systems.
The reason is that the Canon and Nikon versions use different hot-shoe contact layouts and different communication protocols, so the camera codes do not match.
A possible workaround is using a basic manual trigger mode, such as 603 compatibility or other simple manual radio triggers, but then you would lose the YN-622 system’s advanced features like TTL, HSS, and remote flash control across systems.
So if your goal is full YN-622 functionality between Nikon and Canon, the answer is no; only basic manual triggering might be possible with different compatible manual trigger setups.
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