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| | Features | Handy for taking pictures of subjects that difficult to approach with minimized vibrationCan activate the bulb function on the compatible camerasIdeal for time-lapse photography including blooming flowers and astrophotographyFunction as self-timer, interval timer, long-exposure timer- can be programmed as an intervalometerIncludes time remind speaker and release signal lamp, LCD display and screen illuminator
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| | Description | The Timer Remote Control Shutter is an advanced Nikon D90 Digital camera shutter release tool which can be used to release camera shutter, as well as to be programmed to run timed photography task, etc. Delay the starting moment, manage exposure time, set shooting interval or organize numbers of shots. It allows you to control camera shutter up to 1.0 m (3.28 ft) away from a compatible Nikon D90. | |
| | Product Details | | Product Weight: | 1.0 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 53 reviews |
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52 of 52 found the following review helpful:
Great affordable intervalometer for the D90 Mar 21, 2009
By .
I bought this product to act as an intervalometer for my Nikon D90 for time-lapse photography. There aren't many products currently that can do this for the D90, as a result of Nikon changing the remote cable connector. You can do time-lapse with Nikon's camera control software, but you'd also need to lug around a laptop and pay $170 for that minimalistic software. The Satechi product was the cheapest remote timer / intervalometer I could find, and its functions seemed to fit what I wanted so I bought it. Overall I'm very satisfied.
Functions
All timing functions work great. When used in full manual with the camera, the timer control can set the exposure time as well. The controls are pretty simple - one look at the user's manual and you'll know how to use the timer without needing to reference it again. If using any other modes on the camera (P, S, A), the remote simply acts as a remote timer / intervalometer. It's smart enough to pre-focus during count-down, prior to triggering the shutter - so for example, if you want to take 1 shot every 5 seconds, the timer will tell the camera to perform autofocus about 2 seconds prior to actually triggering the shutter. One of my initial concerns was that the documentation listed number of exposures from 1 - 399. This is the pre programmed number limitation, however you can also set it to `--` which essentially means keep taking pictures forever. This is the mode I especially wanted since I plan to take time-lapse photos over very long periods of time.
Build Quality
This is the only reason I didn't give this product 5 stars. The build is pretty cheap plastic, the battery cover is a little flimsy, but it's essentially what I expected for buying the absolute cheapest intervalometer I could find. It's very light, so I don't think if I dropped it, it would break. But if crunched in a bag/luggage I could see the screen breaking. It does have an LED light which I thought was really nice to have, since I've been in many low light situations where this is needed.
Connections
This remote plugs into the `GPS' port on the D90. Because of the connector Nikon chose for this port, it's not inherently obvious which way you plug in the cable. This product's cable uses a hard plastic connector, not a metal housing. It is foreseeable that you could force the connector in the wrong way which could possibly damage the pins on the camera. However, I think this is more of an issue of the connector Nikon chose and not so much a cheap connector on the part of Satechi.
If you want to do time-lapse photos, or need a basic remote-trigger timer for your D90 - this is your product. I've uploaded some picture for size comparison reasons - look at the picture next to the can of soda.
18 of 18 found the following review helpful:
 Does the job Apr 13, 2009
By Mike
I also bought this to do some time lapse photography. Works great and is pretty simple.
You select delay (if any), bulb (if any), interval, number of exposures.
I bought the Satechi hand grip for the D90 but that will only allow you to take 99 pics. No limit on this if you select "--" for interval. Great tip.
Customer service from Satechi is quite good. They called to check to make sure I got the delivery. I called about the number of exposures on the hand grip and the guy called back twice to answer my questions.
Update: I used this to make a time lapse of my niece's wedding rehearsal. Set it to music. It was a big hit. Even my sister couldn't find something to gripe about...a first!
I also found a really great, cheap, and easy program to use to turn the single images into a movie: MovieSalsa. $20. Google it. I was really struggling to find something that was easy to use. Even my Sony Vegas sw was difficult....I screwed around for several hours trying to figure out how to do it.
With MovieSalsa you just dump the photo files in and it does the rest. Lots of things you can tweak if you want to read the directions and start modding it. Pretty easy to speed it up, slow it up, make it run backwards. Fantastic little program.
I then took the MovieSalsa movie, put it into Sony Vegas sw and added the music, titles, etc.... mainly because I was already pretty familiar with Sony Vegas. Zero problems.
8 of 8 found the following review helpful:
Fantastic customer service, remote works great Apr 22, 2010
By Jake_HT
"Jake"
First off, the remote totally works well. It does everything as expected. It can shoot on a timer, can shoot in intervals, and can shoot for a certain amount of time. It can also just be used as a remote shutter..
The first remote I got actually broke.. the tip of the plug separated from the rest of the plug when I pulled it out of the camera. This must have been defective because it broke far too easily..
Picture of broken tip here: [...]
So I sent a message to Arthur at Satechi customer support, who actually contacted me before this to make sure I received the remote in the first place.
He was very sympathetic, and told me they would replace the remote free of charge, as soon as they could. And they did!
So Kudos to Satechi for providing an excellent product backed by even better customer support. Not many companies are great like this.
Thank you Satechi, and to everyone who is reading this that is considering this remote, buy it now! Just be careful with it!! You will be very happy with it, and Satechi deserves your service.
7 of 7 found the following review helpful:
 Worked well until it stopped working... Nov 08, 2010
By Arne Reykowski
I had this device for about 9 months and used it mainly for time lapse photography and astrophotography.
The manual is ok and the device is fairly intuitive to use. So no complaints here.
I also thought that it provides ease of use and good performance to cost ratio.
All the problems related to this device concern the connector that connects to the Accessory Port of the D90.
I must have one of the earlier versions of this device with the straight connector. So I cannot comment on the newer angled connector.
First of all, the mechanical coding on the straight connector is weak and it is therefore possible to plug it in the wrong way. As astrophotographer I deal a lot with low to no light situations. The connector is not angled and also has no tactile features that identify front and back.
Worse, it says "FJ" on one side and has an arrow on the other.
So which side is front???
It took me a while to figure out that "FJ" has to point towards the front on my unit.
But be aware - it may be different for your untit!
I noticed some issues with the camera connection a while ago but attributed it to the fact that I did not push the plug in far enough.
However, last night it finally quit completely on me and no pushing and wiggling could bring it back to life.
So I finally opened the connector for inspection and discovered that one of the 3 wires had come loose.
The solder connection must have been bad to begin with since the connector it used to be attached to looked almost shiny new. This was obviously a manual solder job. The reason why the connector showed intermittent contact earlier was due to the fact that the wires were hot glued into the connector housing. The wire probably just touched the contact until it eventually came completely loose.
Once loose, the wire was free to move around and touch other contacts.
I am therefore concerned that the camera port may have suffered damage too.
So, in summary:
Good device as long as it works.
And: Make sure you get a better connector than I did.
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
Great Intervalometer; Very Easy to Use Dec 27, 2009
By J. Karlsven
What an excellent product! I was looking for a D90 remote or cable release as a gift for my girlfriend, and while browsing through Amazon came across this. The weakness of the Nikon remote control was that it could only be used from the front of the camera on the D90, and the cable release is just a cable release. We had previously tried to do some long exposure night work by mounting the D90 on a sturdy tripod and lightly pressing the shutter release on the body, but it was just too much shake. Also, the longest timed shutter release on the D90 is 30 seconds. Anything longer and you have to use the BULB setting, and time it on your own. That just stinks.
When I saw all that this one simple device could do, I was blown away. Cable release problem = solved. Timed exposures longer than 30 seconds = solved. Time lapse photography = covered. Why buy a remote or simple cable release when you could have something that does so much more, for not really that much more money? It was so simple to use, that by the time I finished reading the directions, my girlfriend has set it up and was about to start her first long exposure shot of the night. It's pretty self explanatory if you are used to shooting on manual settings - just set the shutter on the camera to BULB and program your shutter settings on the TR-M Timer Remote.
The only reason it gets less than 5 stars is that the first time we tried to put the connector into the port on the camera, we could not figure out which way it went in (it was dark out). It got forced in a little until we realized that we should try it the other way - luckily nothing seemed damaged, and we continued to take pictures for 2 hours afterwards. It also doesn't sit completely firmly in the port - seems like it would be very easy to bend it or pull it out during work in the dark (when most people are likely to use it). This is a relatively minor complaint for such a versatile product. We can't wait to take it to Zion National Park this spring and do some night work!
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