Promote Systems Promote Control, Remote Control for Digital SLR Cameras

February 20th, 2010 · No Comments

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Promote Systems Promote Control, Remote Control for Digital SLR Cameras
 
Manufacturer: Promote Systems
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Product Description

Designed for serious amateurs and pros, PromoteĀ® Control is an advanced remote control for digital SLR cameras from various manufacturers. It opens new doors for your creativity with its superior automation and intuitive ease of use. It will have you taking High Dynamic Range (HDR) photographs, time-lapse sequences and much more in a flash. With the Promote Control, you can gain unprecedented, advanced control over your SLR camera in ways that will save you time, especially when taking either traditional or HDR photos. Capture the World in a Whole New Light: Among a multitude of easy-to-use features, Promote Control offers unique flexibility for exposure bracketing, which is commonly used to create High Dynamic Range images. High Dynamic Range, or HDR imaging quickly gains popularity these days, thanks to stunning detail and tone range rendition. Promote Control propels HDR imaging forward by offering unparalleled flexibility, allowing for bracketing step variability previously not possible with in-camera bracketing modes. Promote Control can also automatically put the camera into Bulb mode as appropriate when performing bracketed exposures longer than 30 seconds, requiring no further user intervention. The resulting images can be processed in a software application of choice to create a highly realistic image with a wide tonal range. One of the most useful features of the Promote Control is an advanced Time-Lapsemode normally

Product Details

  • Replaces and extends manufacturer-specific remote controls
  • Allows for unparalleled flexibility with automatic >30 second exposures in bulbmode - even in HDR sequences *
  • Advanced easy-to-configure "Time-Lapse Mode" with optional sequence start delay
  • Optional user-defined Mirror-Up timeout available in all modes *
  • Improved user interface featuring flexible user-definable settings

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Customer Reviews

Get the optional cable as well
 
Review Date: June 2, 2010
Reviewer: M. Henri De Feraudy, France
Users of Canon cameras are a little frustrated when trying to do HDR photography because the number of shots in a bracketted sequence is limited to 3.
This is not always enough for very constrasty subjects like church interiors.
Users of Nikon cameras might be frustrated because the exposure step is limited to 1 EV, so 5 exposures with 1 EV steps is roughly equivalent to 3 exposures of 2 EV steps on the Canon DLSR (However it has been said thatyou get better colour accuracy by taking more exposures). Another problem with the Nikon system is that you can easily make a mistake counting the exposures. This device will count them for you.


This device makes it possible to overcome these limits. Providing you camera allows for bracketting: they dont all, so check this out before you hope to do HDR photography with your camera using this device.

The device is very well built, attempts to be water proof (but I havent tried to take underwater shots with it ;)).
The documentation is very good.
If you want to get full use of this device you should get the optional cable Promote Systems Promote Control, Shutter Cable CN3 for Canon Cameras that corresponds to your camera. The optional cable will allow you to use all the features like mirror-up photography for example.

This device does not work with the original EOS 5D.


Wow. A must-have
 
Review Date: November 25, 2009
Reviewer: S. Chapman, Burbank, CA United States
Marred only by a sparse interface, this device is a remote cable on steroids. (Kids, don't do drugs.)

It lacks a delay to allow you to hang or place the device when shooting starts-important for long hdr's, but you can remotely fire it with any wireless trigger designed for Rebel cameras.

It'd be nice to do time-lapse hdr's, but perhaps Promote can add that with a firmware update.

This remote makes up for a lot of camera shortcomings and imho is well worth the price. It has replaced the Nintendo DS as my favorite DSLR accessory.
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