Canon TC-80N3 Timer Remote Control

Canon TC-80N3

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Photo by: Mark Lesh

So you’ve mastered shooting ski action with your slick new super-dooper Canon DSLR camera and you’re ready to try something new. You’ve seen a few really sweet star-trail photos by Grant Gunderson in Skiing lately and you know it takes a super-long exposure to capture these types of images. But your camera's exposure time only goes up to 30 seconds, not even close to the hour-plus exposures it takes to capture images like Grant’s. How did he do it? Answer: he used a remote timer like the Canon TC-80N3. It extends Canon EOS cameras with a more intelligent and sophisticated timer function. You can take long exposures, timed interval shots (for putting together time-lapse movies), trigger your camera remotely in order to keep it steady, and time your camera to “wake up” for shots at a given time. [$136.95; bhphotovideo.com] — Mark Lesh

While you’re online check out some seriously cool time-lapse videos using this kind of remote timer at timescapes.org/

Canon TC-80N3

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