UNLEASHED Remote Trigger Review - It can AUTO RAMP!!!
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Excellent Video, thank you. It's a shame the company don't support the app with more tutorials on the RUclips site. Just getting to grips with mine and you have helped me move forward.
The first manufacturer to integrate some type of holy grail functionality into its cameras will get my business. It can’t be that hard, guys.
I agree... with todays camera technology, these algorithms should be apart of the cameras now-a-days.
I've had great luck with Sony's in autoISO set and Aperture mode. All the exposure adjustments were made by my a6300: ruclips.net/video/KCAETt5u4L8/видео.html
Sony’s a7iii or later bodies do it very well with their internal intervalometer. Zero flicker that I have seen.
But i can tell you the interface for this dongle looks a bit more intuitive than the sony menu system.
Intro- 0:00
What is UNLEASHED- 1:04
Photo- 2:20
Video- 4:13
Time lapse- 5:04
Auto Ramp- 6:47
Conclusion- 9:37
Best explanation so far.
3:49 The GPS function is so clever of the developers (Unless it uses the phones gps and writes it to the raw file and not turning on the gps in the camera). Very useful for the cameras which don't come with inbuilt gps.
It seems to pull the gps data from the phone. Which is ok with me as I have my phone with me and my Nikon bodies don’t have built in gps
Nice review. Just got my two yesterday (for the D750 and D850).
Tight fit with the D750 (because of the placement of the strap nub on the camera body). But otherwise they are small and unobtrusive.
Excited to take both cameras out and be able to adjust them on the fly as I’m shooting!
Awesome! They are really cool little devices... happy shooting!
Good info Mike. Thanks
Looks interesting but I’m not seeing any examples that go from daylight to full night with the Milky Way well exposed. Most cameras’ auto exposure routines will go from daylight to deep twilight just fine but they stall once it gets dark, giving nothing but grossly underexposed images. If the Unleashed device is judging its exposure from the camera histogram I wonder if it won’t do any better than using the camera’s auto exposure, albeit with exposure smoothing.
But even then the exposure changes from frame to frame can’t be less than 1/3 stop so there will still be flickering. Easy to fix in post, but it’s not a true bulb ramping device where all exposures are set with the camera on Bulb, and shutter speeds can shift by very tiny amounts.
How well will it ramp to the 30 seconds at ISO 6400 needed for a well exposed Milky Way scene? The TimeLapse View works great for ramping to long exposures because it has its own light meter that works far better under low light. Plus the View can sync to motion control devices. If the Unleashed can’t do that then it’s limited for professional time lapse work. But it is cheaper.
But let’s see a full sunset to Milky Way sequence shot unattended without need for manual overrides. If you have to do the latter you might as well just shoot a holy grail the old fashioned way, by manually changing settings every few shots. If it can go from sunset to Milky Way unattended, I’m in. Thanks!
It doesn’t auto ramp with my Canon 6d...
Very interesting product. If I expand into time lapse, I’ll have to get one.
Does your phone need to be on for the duration of the shoot or can you turn off without loss of connection? Nice vid Mike looks like a great product!
excellent video, it's something I've been waiting for a long time. thank you very much
Thanks for watching!
Waiting on Sony...🙄
Scott TheOzoneGuy I sent them an email to see if they are making the Unleashed fit Sony. I get back to you when I get a response. Thanks for watching
I talked to Foolography and they said that they are working on Sony triggers but it taking longer than expected... They recommend subscribing to their news letter for future updates with their products so you will get notified when they release a sony trigger.
@@Milkywaymike ...Thanks for following up. I signed up for the newsletter, yesterday. Now the wait. But what else is there to do at this time 😉
Just what I was looking for. Thanks.
Thanks for this great intro video.
Great review! Just ordered the C1 for my Canon. Do yourself a favor and use FedEx shipping.
Hey Mike did you test the Bluetooth distance incase you are wondering around and forget your phone is in your pocket ?.
The cool thing about this device is that it saves your settings so you can walk away with your phone losing blue tooth connection and it will keep on firing away. So if you set it up for a autoramp it will continue to automatically adjust the exposure even if you disconnect the blue tooth!
Awesome 👍
I have the new unleashed 22. Great piece of kit. However the new version in Holy grail - interval settings has optional “flex” timings.
Is this “Interval Ramping” or … ?
Vastly cleaner and more intuitive interface than QDSLRDashboard.
@Milky Way Mike so this is currently half the price of LRTimelapse PRO Timer 2.5; and I see you use this device normally; how does unleashed compare? Does Gunther Wegner's device have additional features, or are you getting all the benfits in a smaller and cheaper package with the unleashed trigger?
Hi Mike! Great review!
I was wondering how it compares to Arsenal Smart Camera Assistant?
It appears to be very similar in features and Arsenal also does Holy Grail / auto ramp, so a comparison would be much appreciated!👍🏼
great review, thank you.
Amazing video. This solves so many problems! One question: When the time lapse is going, can you see the thumbnail of the most recent shot if you wanted to? Relying on the meter will be good enough to make manual changes but it would be cool if that thumbnail feature was also available during the time lapse.
Just got mine. On my Nikon cameras it doesn’t (but I can just see the preview on the camera and adjust from there)
Thank for a review. It look great. I like how small it is and the idea of take power from camera. I already have Timelapse+ View for 1 camera body it's auto ramp function work great with sony camera but it more expansive than this one. If this product have Sony version i might buy one for my other Sony body. Although You can auto ramp shutter speed, F, ISO with mode P* of Sony camera but it can not pre-program F number like this product. Can this unit do interval ramping?
I talked to Foolography and they said that they are working on Sony triggers but it may take a while and to subscribe to their news letter for updates. As far as interval ramping, it currently does not do that, however I was able to do it manually very quickly. I did a sunrise ramp and I started off with a 10 second interval for the majority of the auto ramp. As the shutter started getting faster around 2 seconds I stopped the time lapse real quick, adjusted my interval to 4 seconds and then continued shooting. So you can do it manually pretty easily.
@@Milkywaymike Thank you for trick.I hope sony version come out soon.
Thanks for bringing this to our attention Mike. Is there any shutter lag using the app? Also, I don't see anywhere where you can control focus point. I'm guessing focus control is not possible?
Thanks for watching... Focus point has to be set physically with your camera.
Does the GPS function work if I’d like to shoot in handheld mode (meanings without the app)?
hey man great product
Thanks for the tutorial, I take that this unit cannot be paired with a Syrp Genie or mini as they would be using the same port?
So I'm still trying to figure that out because the top of the Unleashed unit is a GP-1/GPS port which I can put a cable that attaches to my SYRP Genie 1. The problem is in time lapse mode on the genie it triggers the camera instead of my phone app. I have to see if I can override this somehow. As a work around I can put the genie in video mode and have it preform a linear or panning movement and use UNLEASHED for the time lapse function. You just have to make sure the video movement is extremely slow. So if I do a 2 hour duration on the UNLEASHED APP then I would set my GENIE to 2 hour duration (pan or slide) movement. The increments it takes over 2 hours is so minimal that it shouldn't be noticeable on the time lapse even doing long exposures. Still testing this theory out.
Milky Way Mike how about it up against timelapse+ Unleashed is half the price
Hi, can i use N2 for my Nikon D750?
Great video and thanks for the information!
Might be a stupid question but how do you controll the exposure time within bulb mode in your photo settings?
Do you have to hold the trigger button or can you define the exposure time somewhere else?
You can start and stop the exposure or you can define a length of time that they provide up to 4.9 hours.
@@Milkywaymike ok thanks for the response!
Nice video Mike. Really appreciate your work and suggestions. Do you know if the device keeps triggering camera during timelapses even if apps crashes/is killed or phone loses connection to it?
Found the answer here: www.foolography.com/faqs/does-the-phone-need-to-be-on-during-a-timelapse/
Is there any way to see the histogram in the photo preview or in live view?
Can it transfer a small jpeg to your phone each time you take a picture?
Another Sony shooter that's disappointed. I sent them a email too.
I talked to Foolography and they said that they are working on Sony triggers but it taking longer than expected... They recommend subscribing to their news letter for future updates with their products so you will get notified when they release a sony trigger.
Why you usted this gadget uf Z6 has Snapbridge app. I'm looking for feedback to decide to get one for my old D90. What do you think?
Jaime Muñoz Does snapbridge do auto ramping?
Are you able to set your Z6 Iso to the low (64) iso setting via the unleashed app? Or does it only let you go to iso 100 like the Nikon app? Thanks!!
With my Z6 I just tested it for you... It will go to LO 1.0 which is actually ISO 50 or you can go to ISO 64 and ISO 80... so yup it will go into the LO / HI iso's
@@Milkywaymike You are amazing!! I appreciate it... will definitely be buying. Crazy how a third party will do better than the Nikon app haha
Can u fire the camera in bulb mode for long exposure
Alun Davies yes you can do that
Does the auto ramp also work even if the app is not running/connected?
Great review!! Can I switch camera batteries in a long timelapse??
Nick Noble the unleashed unit runs off your cameras battery so if you take the battery out it will disconnect the unit... however it will save the last settings you had set up in the app so when you put the new battery in you just have to hit the shutter button on the app to continue the timelapse.
@@Milkywaymike Perfect. Thanks. Mine is stuck in mail delays between US and Germany .
Finally arrived. Tried Autoramp for backyard sunset and it worked great. Excited to try in a more fun setting! Thanks for introducing me!
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Hi,
Now, that you’ve been having the app for some time, what’s your honest opinion on the auto ramping function, pls ?
I’ve been creating in-camera time-lapses, the auto ramping feature sounds promising, but does it really make a huge difference? That’s the only feature of the app I’d need.
I’ve read it in one of their blogs, that you still need to transfer your images to an editing software, e.g. LRTimelapse to smooth it out.
Is that how it works?
Thanks in advance !
@@e.l.1890 I think you still need something like LRTimelapse. The auto ramp works great, but software makes it much better. Want to skip software. Look a go pro night lapse videos. I have not used in camera TL feature on my Canon. Have fun.
How does it compare to Timelapse+View?
THey just messaged me and told me its available for Sony cameras !
without live view ... what is a reason to buy that???
It’s a highly advanced remote trigger that offers automatic day to night and night to day time lapse transitions along with other helpful features I’ve outlined in the video. Not having live view isn’t a deal breaker since I rarely need to use it but I know it would be helpful for those recording themselves. I’ll reach out them and maybe they can do a firmware update in the future for a live view feature
When its plugged into your camera, would it interfere with an L bracket? My current remote cable prevents me from shooting vertical with the L bracket. Wondering if you tried it with an L bracket on in portrait and landscape orientation.
I use it with an L Bracket too. It is not an issue, however you do have to move the L bracket over a little bit like have it at 3:40
Sounds like you need to get the ProMediaGear L bracket. Their vertical section of the bracket is adjustable to allow more room for plugs.
It doesn’t auto ramp to dark sky with my Canon 6d. Disappointing. I’m sticking with Timelapse+View..
Are you still using this trigger?
Yup!! And I believe they are working on a Kickstarter for a new updated version. I’m still waiting for more details on when that will be announced.
@@Milkywaymike Is there any lag between shutter release on the app to the camera firing? IOW, would it be effective for trying to shoot when timing is important like with waves?
Can this be used while your camera is in live view? I sometimes timelapse at 300mm+ and the mirror flop from my dlsr creates blurry frames. I assume this is similar to an app I've used and doesn't let you use live view while the app is running. The obvious solution would be to buy a mirrorless camera but I'm not going to do that rn.
Yes you can use it with live view, however when it is taking the exposure you won't be able to see it. So for example when I take a 10 seconds exposure and my interval is set to 11 or 12 seconds I will have 1 or 2 seconds to see the photo appear on the back of my LCD screen to make sure it looks properly exposed. Typically I turn off the screen to save my camera battery life but I will turn it on from time to time during a time lapse to make sure the exposure looks good.
@@Milkywaymike wow that would be amazing if it works with liveview. I noticed you were using the z6, hopefully it works the same with my d750. I'm aware of dark time during exposure. I really just use liveview to lock the mirror for moon timelapse with short interval. If I could ramp too that would be amaazing
Does it have bracketing feature for HDRs?
You would have to set the bracketing on your camera first and then use the remote to take the series of photos.
Milky Way Mike would be great if HDR timelapse feature can be added!
the timelaps ramping looks verry complicated. and what about the shuttercount , this is going to be sky high and that is a problem for me
The ramping is automatically done by the app and device once you input the parameters which is required for any ramping device so it’s actually easy. Also if you’re worried about shutter count then you shouldn’t do any time lapse work for that matter. I’ve done them for years on numerous Nikon cameras and gotten my shutter into the hundreds of thousands without ever needing to service my cameras. Lastly this helps you control your camera without touching your camera so you can still use it for long exposure work and other still photography.
@@Milkywaymike good to read you can do without worry making timelapses without worry to brake the shutter i didnt know that. i am going to buy the RamperPro3 for more a bit more advanced options . it is designed in holland (where i live) this thing is amazing take a look at it please. thank you for your respons.
Seen your review and just ordered one for my Z6. Will come in handy for my milky way shoots and weddings. @thismonolife
Or you can buy a sony a73 or a7r3
That camera does auto ramping?
@@Milkywaymike yes they can. They have a mode that can shoot timalapse automatically and can adjust exposure automatically. And the adjustment is smooth.
Did a quick research and looks like A73/A7R3 and 4 have this feature.
@@gaartch6703 Thats pretty cool... That might be the reason why Foolography didn't develop a remote trigger for sony. Still waiting to see what they say about it.
Thanks for the info!
How does the Sony camera’s built-in intervalometer differ from Nikon Z’s? You can also set aperture priority on the latter and let the camera adjust the exposure smoothly via the shutter speed/ ISO. Unless you can set the Sony to full manual exposure with an algorithm to auto-ramp, I don’t see how it’s any more special than the Nikon Z camera’s intervalometer? Am I missing something here?