Yongnuo RF 603 C II Wireless Shutter Trigger with Canon Cameras

Using the RF 603 C II wireless triggers with Rebel T5 and 5Diii to control your Canon camera's shutter. Sometimes you may want a remote camera(s) or just need a wireless remote option that will span several hundred feet. The Yongnuo wireless triggers are reliable, inexpensive and a great overall value for the money.

Today I’m going to be reviewing the Yongnuo RF 603 C II wireless triggers. Everybody’s pretty well aware that these can trigger flash units wirelessly and they do a good job and have a good range and are very reliable. Quite inexpensive compared to a pocket wizard and my preference over a pocket wizard when it comes to triggering wireless flashes. But a lot of people don’t realize that you can also trigger your camera’s shutter and that comes in handy in a couple of cases. Maybe you want to set up a couple of remote cameras in different locations like if you are shooting a wedding or sporting event or you’ve got whatever is going on that you want to have multiple cameras, you want to get a shot at different angles at the exact same time. It has its advantages. When you need to do that, you surely can, and we are going to show you. I’ve got a Canon Rebel T5 here. I’ve got cable running from the Yongnuo into the camera, a shutter cable. This is set into the TRX mode. Press all the way and take the picture. We are going to slide this over into manual which is set up for bulb mode. You want to take 5 second exposure, 2 minute exposure, and you’ve got a wireless remote. Bulky, not something you probably want to do, but you’ve got it. So the real trick comes in. I want to take this and put it on the camera. We’ve got a 5D III. I’ve got auto-focus turned off on both cameras so that we just don't have that interfering during this test. The 5D III did not fire the T5. So the first thing I think of is to go ahead and get the correct cable for the 5D and get it plugged in. Now let’s see if it does it. It still does it. And that’s the drawback. I cannot make this camera fire this camera at the same time or at all when using the camera shutter button. However, let’s introduce the third remote and see what happens. They both take a picture at the exact same time. So the lesson that we learn here is that if you are going to have remote cameras with the Yongnuo trigger, you have operate it by hand on those remote cameras and that can be kind of a downer. If you need to shoot a remote camera with the Yongnuo triggers, it’s not that difficult. What you do is you just need to remove the cable trigger and you would work it in your hands. So as you are shooting with this hand, you would take the photo, the remote photo with this hand. Pretty easy to get them at the same time. It’s not the best solution in the world. I find that for most things it does not bother me. If you’re on a sporting event that may be a little bit different story. I still think that it’s an okay setup with the wireless remote shutter. I know the pocket wizards have a pre-release trigger cable and I will be investigative whether or not if that cable placed on a camera such as the 5D will allow it to be triggered say from a T5. I don’t know. I doubt it. I’m not sure why that is. If you know how to make this combination work where I can just take a picture and also trigger that, I would love to hear from you in the comments below. Otherwise, that’s how this works. It’s the only drawback with the Yongnuo triggers.

[ScoTreVan]

I have OM-D M1 mii and the Yongnuo 603N II Triggers and want to use them as a Shutter Release, I know I can use the IO share app, but would prefer to use these for Light Painting, my triggers work ok to fire the off camera flash, but I cant get them to trigger the Shutter, , , any ideas please??

[njtv]

Is it compatible with the 700d and yn560 iii?

[dbdb]

Can this be used as for simply setting off the shutter? Like if you're taking pictures of yourself? I'm trying to set the triggers up on my t2i, which I've done before with flash, but I'm more so wanting to use it now for self portraits

[ilkinzeferli]

Hi. When I use Yongnuo trigger on my camera (Canon EOS 5d Mark4) and control the shooting with Camera Connect mobile app. The trigger is didnt work. Camera taking shoot as usual but flash is (on trigger) did`nt work) what is the problem? please help

[virtualsetsperu]

Quería ver los cables como son colocados en cada cámara

[winnertt]

What about pressing the button on one of the yongnuo triggers while both of them are attached on the hotshoe and shuttercable on both cameras? Will it trigger both cameras' shutter?

[jussho]

Thanks for the review. Just a couple questions before I make my purchase.

1. I see these kits available on Amazon, but only 2 triggers are offered. Assuming you guys just buy multiple kits to use as needed, how do you sync all the triggers together to work on the same channel?

2. I currently have a 70D with a couple Neewer receivers and a transmitter. When I connect the one receiver to my strobe and another receiver to my camera via PC Sync cable, I use the transmitter as a wireless remote. By doing so, it triggers the strobe and camera, however, reviewing the pics, it appears as if the strobe didn't fire at all. Since I have 1 receiver connected to the camera via PC Sync cable, I no longer get a preview of the shot taken. I have to disconnect the cable from the remote port in order for me to play the pictures back. Is anyone else having these issues?

[mkAYY]

thanks for the video, i bougth 2 sets of 603cII's and they wont work in the hotshoe with either of my canon cameras (70d or 80d) no idea why

[satriabhirawa]

can you release shutter from up 2 camera at a sametime? with this trigger?

[kennyteng]

You plug in the transmitter though the mic input

[photographerofchampions]

Did you set the TRANSMITTER on the second camera to "TX"? It looked like you had them both set as "TRX"

[inggridohd]

is that working to, when take a video??

[corey]

Would two of these work to trigger both the camera shutter remotely and an off camera flash remotely ( one on camera, one on flash - using the trigger button on unit attached to the flash to trip flash and shutter ).

Or would I need a third to act just as a remote shutter release to do everything I want ?

[timothyf]

Did you try TX mode on the 2nd camera?

[markharris]

Does the 603 II work with the yn622C-tx? As far as I know the 622 is purely a transceiver and not a shutter trigger, but I don't know if it can send a message to the 603 to make it come alive and thus if it's set up as a shutter trigger make it work.

[theonlyvaibhav]

By mistake I bought wrong version of canon trigger for 550d. If I buy the correct version, would the new once be able to trigger the wrong version (at least manual, if not ETTL)?

[natiharnik]

It is indeed possible to trigger a camera from another camera's shutter with a small hack.
In these wireless remotes when you press the shutter on one camera it will only trigger the flash contacts on the receiving unit, not the shutter. - So, to get around this "limitation", on the receiving unit connect the dedicated camera cable to a PC sync cable and plug the PC sync cable to the plug on the rear end of the remote receiving unit. (you have to cut the 2.5mm plug off of the dedicated camera cable, supply your own PC sync cord, cut it's 2.5 mm plug, and solder the 2 wires from the PC sync cord to 2 cables out of the 3 of the camera cable. To find which 2 of 3 wires are the correct ones, touch 2 wires together until the camera fires, those will be the correct wires ), then plug into the PC sync port at the back of the receiving unit. And now you will have camera shutter remote shooting. There is a penalty though, I am not sure that with the modified cable one can use the keep awake (1/2 press) feature of these units. And of course do this at your own risk.

[rijwanulhasib]

Can I use 4 of em together with 1 transmitter from camera?

[thenatural]

Do these NOT work on Rebel T5's?? Several people on Amazon said it does, but I can't get my off camera flash to fire when I press the shutter down. I have both switches on trx, channels the same, and I press the shutter button and it doesn't fire the flash ever. Why?

[mirkocontreras]

Thanks to share this. I have canon camera, a rebel t5 too and I also have an external flash (yongnuo 560 IV). Is it possible to use this flash out of the camera with the RF 603? is the trigger compatible with both, camera and flash? I hope you understand the question and
I would appreciate it if you could answer my doubt.