How To Setup A REMOTE CAMERA For SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHY. 

You can't be two places at once, but you kind of can!

I've been debating about trying remotes, but an opportunity came up this weekend to do it, and your video was the first to come up when searching for remote setups, great walk through, best one i've seen and can't wait to give it a shot. Good stuff, and thanks for putting this up.

Thanks. I appreciate the focus on real-world "just in case" safety and the basic direct explanation of the pocket wizard system. I probably just looked in the wrong places, but I had to search quite a bit to find an illustration of how this technology works. As one of the other commentors said: One of the best explanations out there.

Great tutorial and pro tips! Thank you for sharing Billie!

Great video, Billie. Very informative!

Great video, thanks for sharing. I wonder - have you ever come across multiple shooters that fired your camera? The number of channels is pretty limited, so I assume this could be a potential problem ;).

Such a great video! This is exactly what I was looking for!! Thank you

Great video, I've tried several off brand transceivers to do this with hockey but haven't had any luck with the transmitter on the camera. Finally broke down and got the PocketWizards. Would love to see a video of how you cull/process the files to find the shots. Are you locking them on the primary camera then dump both cameras files into the same folder and look for the tagged photos?

Great tutorial / behind the scenes look, thanks!

Great video! Thanks!

This is awesome, thank you! I want to try this for some G League stuff now. Are you triggering the remote at certain times or is it firing when your main does too?

Great video! So through these equipments I can shoot the remote camera through the main camera button? Not necessarily from the remote control button. I'm looking for a product like this.

Hi Billie - just found your channel. This is fantastic. I am going to try this at my son's soccer games this summer (Covid willing). He's a goalie so never get good shots of him. Will set a camera up behind the net and see how it goes.

Ok, I get that you are setting AP or SP, but what do you do with your ISO, is that on an Auto setting or do you have a pretty good idea where it needs to be. (I realize that each situation will be different) Thanks for the great video.

Thanks for the tips. Can you enable focus tracking to work on a remote cam?

Hi Billie, a question if I may. not sure if you'll have the answer but wanted to try :). I plan to shoot the finish line of marathons with a long lens and second camera with a wide lens to more reliably capture the runners bib number. I am working to rig a monopod with a cage and have these two cameras mounted together and fire simultaneously. Currently I have a 5d IV and 6D II. I would like to trigger them simultaneously by using the 5D IV normally. I know there are wireless systems that allow for this, including pocket wizard remotes and canon-made wireless systems. But what I am trying to figure out is if there is a wired system I could use, which would be far more reliable. Less batteries to fail, less wireless systems to figure out. I call CPS and they said something *probably* exists but he didn't know what it was and suggested it would probably be a 3rd party product. I don't need autofocus on the secondary camera, I just need it to trigger at the same time my main camera. Both cameras have front facing remote control terminals, I feel like there has to be something? I would be so grateful if you had any advice on this front. thank you so much for your videos and content. all the best, Ben

Awesome video! This has been super helpful, one shot ive been wanting to get is for discus throwers, down low, inside the net but behind the ring. Any recommendations on low to the ground tripods to use for the remote or any other way of keeping the camera stable and at the right angle from the ground?

Enjoyed the video. How do you deal with fans possibly messing around with the remote camera?

On my remote, I take a o-ring that you can find anywhere (key ring) and loop it through the strap holder on the body

I was wondering how far away I can be for them to work. I will be shooting the Jumbo Shrimp and was wanting to do this. Thanks for the info and really enjoy the videos you have.

Thanks for the helpful video! Something that might be worth noting: The 10 pin cable you linked in the description is a 2.5mm connector. The pocket wizards 3 I believe have a 3.5mm. I accidentally ordered a 2.5mm cable. ( I should have done my homework) Lol.

Great video! I noticed you had a 3rd camera with you in the dugout (the one NOT on the 400mm), that didn't have a PocketWizard. Is it possible to have a 3rd camera connected so if you shot with it, the remote camera would also go off? Or would all 3 bodies go off every time you shot any one of them?

Would the 2.5 mm work same as the 3.5 I have the wizard pocket plus 3 as well?

I have a question. In the video, I would like to know if I can use PocketWizard Plus3 with PocketWizard PlusX.

Hi Billie! Any chance i can use 2-3 remote cameras at different angle and control them with a remote i trigger by hand (not by main camera)? I imagining setting up remote cameras for different jumps during equestrian showjumping event..

Hi Billie, just found your channel. Brilliant stuff. Never shot major sports before. Do you ever worry about where your remote is set up, or had any issues with people messing with your gear?

The absolutely critical remote.

do you need two 10-pin cables? one for the camera you are manually operating as well?

Billie, Why don’t you use the WT-6a transmitters you seem to already have, which have a 600ft range? With multiple WT-6 transmitters on D5 bodies you can control up to 10 other cameras from the main camera. You’re already using the WT-6a it seems and it seems it would be much easier for you! Plus it would be without cables and hotshoe mounted wizards. Just a question or suggestion!?

Did you mention to set and sync both cameras to the clock time to the exact second? Unless you want to scatter photo frames after ingesting into the computer.

Hello, your videos are great and very helpful, my question is about the configuration of the pocket wizards, which configuration to use for long distances using a main camera and a remote camera

Can this be set up with a Godox trigger on primary camera and receiver on the remote camera?

Do you turn on the remote camera using the Pocket Wizard? Just wondering about life of the remote camera . Great video, thanks.

When TX is mounted on the hot shoe of the camera with 400mm and you hit shutter does it automatically fire the other camera? If the other camera goes to sleep then what? I’m assuming it would wake up too late?

I have a canon 5d mark III and a Sony A7 iii, do you think it will work with different brands? Thanks for the video!

Power ... You were setting up at 1pm for a 7pm game. Do you turn on the power then or come back at a later time and turn it on. I know the D5 battery is a beast but that seems long. Or does it go into standby and wake up when triggered by the Pocket Wizard? Thanks!

Great video! Do you also utilize Auto-ISO when using shutter priority?

I have issues with cross county , horses jumping over and the jump is un perfect focus but the horse and rider are blurry , fall out if the DoF,, I use a D4 and Pocket wizard Plus

Bill, does the remote get triggered when the main camera fires or do you have to manually trigger it?

Great review as usual as no photographers yet allowed attend any event here in Ireland yet.

I’ve tried using other triggers and they had to be manually triggered by the button instead of firing by the main camera shutter. So Pocket Wizards will fit the remote from the main shutter?

What if you use two different bodies with different shooting bust, would that work?

Really useful video. Do you ever suffer camera shake from doing a burst on the remote camera?

Nice video. Hope you trust your crowd. For the price of a ticket and a COVID-19 mask, I could grab a D5, lens , and magic arm.

How do you transfer images to a computer remotely and edit them in real time to upload to social networks?

So the remote camera is triggered when you shoot yours? Is that correct or are you doing it by hand?

I would be terrified of someone doing a runner with the remote camera being that far away. Would you leave the camera at that location with fans at the game?

Whats the maximum weight the magic arm will support?

That cable you put in below was wrong cable it had a 2.5 end not 3.5

How do you choose right photos? You probably have few thousands of photos and need to deliver them fast…

In terms of securtity for thiefs? because you put the camera alone..any person can see it and steal the camera no?

Great video, thanks!