Home > Consumer Reviews > Adorama Wireless Radio Remote Release for Canon EOS 5D, 10D, 20D, 30D & 40D SLR Digital Cameras (3 Pin)

Works just as described, long range, no problems. I set it up with my camera outside next to the bird feeder and started snapping away - got some great shots of birds taking off and landing. It comes with a battery which was dead upon arrival (hence the 4 stars - would have been 5), so I thought the product was not working. A new battery added like $12 to the price of the remote, but even so it is much cheaper than the Canon remote.

At first I thought, how well could this product perform seeing as though it is almost half the price of a wireless Canon remote? I own a Canon 20D and it works just great. I used it for the first time taking some professionally shot family photos and it worked out perfectly. The remote transmitting distance is great and because it is RF instead of infrared, I don't need to worry about me pointing it at the camera. I can simply hide it behind another person's back and press halfway to focus and the rest to shoot. Notably, it's much smaller than it looks here in the photo -- believe me, this is a plus (it's all about discretion)! The battery life thus far has been quite good.

For those of you looking for a no fuss, inexpensive way of having a wireless shutter remote with your digital SLR, I would definitely entertain and recommend this product. I have had no trouble with it using my Canon 20D.

I've deleted my old review because I decided to give this remote another chance before sending it back, and because it definitely deserves more than the one star I'd previously given it.

The batteries I had been using when I posted my previous review were a little on the old side, but not past their expiration date. Having bought new batteries, I installed them and thought again that this product was faulty. It wasn't until I removed the batteries that I noticed something very strange about the design of this remote. In 99.9999% of the battery-operated products out on the market, batteries are installed with the negative side of the battery against the tension-spring conductor. In this product, however, one of the batteries is not, so it will look to you like you're installing the battery backwards. Anyone buying this needs to take care not to make what would be a normal and incredibly understandable assumption about how batteries ought to be installed in the receiver. In fact, it's entirely possible that this device could be damaged with incorrect battery installation.

Once the new batteries were installed, and had been put in correctly, it worked, but not without problems: the cover for the batteries on the receiver easily fell off and, despite the tension-spring conductors, the batteries seemed to lose contact. I suspect that the problem was with the battery with the tension-spring on the wrong side, and I'm not entirely convinced that some tape over the cover door will correct this problem. The problem there is that tension-spring conductors are not meant to be mated up to a battery's positive terminal. That said, the camera worked in manual focus, and in auto-focus modes (where pressing the transmitter's button until its LED turns green causes the camera to focus, and then pressing it completely until the LED glows red causes the camera's shutter to release). It worked fine in single shot mode, in low speed continuous mode, with the 10-second timer turned on, and with the 2-second timer turned on. However, the first time I tested it in high speed continuous mode, the receiver remained turned "on" and the camera wouldn't stop taking photos until I removed the receiver's connector from the camera's N-type outlet. Although I use the high speed continuous mode very rarely, I am completely underwhelmed and less than impressed with this device.


With the type of design found in the receiver's battery compartment, and the cheap materials used, I don't expect it to last very long, and I can't say that I'm too thrilled with the idea of connecting such a thing to a nearly $1300 EOS 50D, and I ABSOLUTELY WON'T be using this anytime that I might want to use my camera in high speed continuous mode. (I'll use this until I'm able to afford Canon's insanely expensive wireless remote. When I can afford that, this thing will get tossed into the trash, as I wouldn't want to donate it to anybody.)

This remote works wonderfully for my purpose... taking my own family's portraits, or any photos that I want to be in. I have used it a handful of times and it seems to work great. It allows you to use different channels and I haven't quite figured that out yet. I just leave it on the same channel each time. My only complaint is that the instructions that come with it are pretty brief. It would have been nice to have more explanation about several of the functions. For the price, it's a great little remote.

I have the exact same remote, but I didn't buy it from Adorama, I bought it from Link-Delight in Hong Kong on eBay for $27 including shipping to the US. Works great, am very happy with the product, especially that it has user-replaceable batteries. Can't beat it for the price!