When one camera remotely triggers another, which burst rate do you get?
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I’m using two Canon bodies with different continuous shooting speeds, such as a 7D (8 fps) and a 70D (7 fps), and I want to use one to remotely trigger the other for basketball. If I hold down the shutter on the camera in my hand, will the remote camera shoot at its own maximum burst rate, or only when the master camera fires and the remote camera is ready? Does the result change depending on which camera is the master and which is the remote?
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It depends on the capabilities of the transmitter and receiver and how the transmitter is triggered. In general if the transmitter is attached to the hot shoe or PC connection of the camera you are operating ('master'), then one short signal to fire will be emitted each time the 'master' camera's shutter fires, since that is what activates the hot shoe/PC connector. In this scenario if you use the slightly slower frame rate camera as the 'master' camera, the 'slave' camera should fire at the same rate. If the faster frame rate camera is used as the 'master', then the 'slave' will only fire when it is ready to take another shot and the 'master' camera fires. (I have read anecdotal accounts that similar triggers activate the shutter for long enough that two exposures are captured when the camera is set to burst mode.)
One way to fire both cameras continuously at their maximum rates would be to use a receiver on both cameras and fire both shutters using the button on the transmitter. Since the transmitter communicates the state of the shutter button position as long as it is held down, if each camera were set in continuous shooting mode they would each shoot bursts at the maximum frame rate for the camera, settings, and conditions as long as the button on the transmitter is held down.
Keep in mind that certain in-camera settings can affect maximum burst speed. Things like high ISO, Peripheral Illumination correction, stronger Noise Reduction, Highlight Tone Priority, etc. will all decrease the maximum frame rate of a particular camera. So will the maximum write speed of the memory card. It would be rare to get rated frame rates from either camera in a typically poorly lit gym where the ISO needs to be cranked up a little.
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Usually, the remote camera does not free-run at its own burst speed just because the shutter button is held on the master camera. With most hot-shoe or PC-sync style trigger setups, the remote camera gets one trigger pulse each time the master camera actually takes a frame.
That means:
- If the slower camera is the master, the remote should fire at that slower camera’s rate.
- If the faster camera is the master, the slower remote will only fire on the trigger pulses that arrive when it is ready, so it will not necessarily match every frame from the master.
- The faster remote will not be forced down to its own max rate; it still only gets one trigger command per master exposure.
So in practice, the burst timing is limited by how the trigger system sends signals and by whether the remote camera is ready when each pulse arrives. Exact behavior can vary by transmitter/receiver design and how the shutter-release signal is handled.
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