unreliable, HDR mode undemanding

Have ordered this product with a few other things online, the packaging was okay from the outside, the other items also. When unpacking the radio timer, however, the plastic shell was where the items were already broken. But could also be due to the poor quality plastic. The transmitter anyway has a small part inside which flies around. Just as if someone such a part (like ne TV remote control) would ever fallen to the ground and dissolves a small part. May, but need not speak to the processing. The processing generally I find rather well. Had ne children mobile dummy in his hand, the felt similarly. But it does not occur so exclusively.

Now I have the part time connected and especially looked upon me the bracketing. For this you have to, you would suspect, set the camera to Bulb. Here you can start as a fastest shutter speed until 0.5 sec. The timer can make up to 7 shots in this mode and doubled always the next recording starting from the initial value.
So I once 7 images set and the timer to 0.5 sec. (0.1 sec. Can be set, but then you only get 6 pictures and you could tell that this can translate the camera in Bulb mode nich, is but also in the manual)

So 0.5 seconds as the initial value would mean yes:
1: 0.5 sec
2: 1 sec
3: 2 sec
4: 4 sec
5: 8 sec
6: 16 sec
7: 32 sec

Well, there have now been several times and the ExIFS say:

1: 1 sec
2: 1 sec
3: 1 sec
4: 3 sec
5: 7 sec
6: 15 sec
7: 32 sec

As you can see, precision is different. Power, incidentally no difference whether it is carried out via radio or direct cable connection.

Based on this knowledge I have the following test setup durhcgeführt:

- EOS 60D on tripod on white colored motif with shares (for brightness reference) provided.
Set white balance to Tungsten -
- Ambient light is constantly equal (darkened rooms, room lighting)
- For manual execution mode "M" with aperture f / 9 ISO 100
- For timer-controlled program execution "B" with Aperture f / 9 ISO 100
- First bracketing, consisting of 7 shots, set manually
- Second bracketing, operate the service through Phottix Aion timer for device failure unusable (more on that)
- Third bracketing, also with 7 recordings, operate the service through Phottix Aion timer.

Implementation:

Optimal exposure according photometry camera had an exposure time of 4 seconds at f / 9 and IS0 100. Therefore, the following exposures are adjusted manually:

-3 EV: 0.5 sec.
-2 EV: 1 sec.
-1 EV: 2 sec.
0 EV: 4 sec.
+1 EV: 8 sec.
+2 EV: 16 sec.
+3 EV: 32 sec.
Now I closed the timer, I have not brought to my incoming mail from its packaging, to the camera directly over the cable. And I realized that the timer so no longer works. Speaks again to the processing. So I connected the radio receiver with the same cable, about working triggering.
I programmed the timer in HDR mode so that the exposures were as described above must occur.
In the first implementation with the timer, there was apparently a radio interruption in Figure 6, so I got 8 pictures in this series, a 14 seconds and a subsequent 1 second. Then the 32-seconds Image followed. During the exposure I stopped the timer in his hand and was standing right in front of the camera and thus also against the recipient. The inserted batteries are repackaged the supplied one. Can anyone imagine a lower quality or a defect as declarations leading to here.

So I led the timergesteurte exposure through a second time. Here, I got 7 pictures that brought as already described in the incoming mail EXIFS other times to the fore.
I have also asked me during the Timer sequence with my smartphone for time stopping ready. And I've mitgestoppt two times. Once 4 seconds, and again 16 seconds of exposure. If you consider that I take with your finger to time'm faster at the beginning of the exposure, because I know when the mirror will fold up and slower when the mirror down works again to keep the time, came both times times of X, 80 sec out. So about 3.80 and 15.80. So it is not to blame the camera, that it therefore only 3 and 15 seconds writes to the ExIFS.

Now some may say that is so irrelevant and you can this even after the still following results of the test certainly discuss further. Now it is so that the results of bracketing in direct comparison in Lightroom produce significant differences in the brightness. In addition, the timer recordings -3 EV and EV -2 show no difference in exposure. Thus, the possibility already given by the manufacturer to be able to expose so that does not work 0.5 sec.. Of course, this refers only to the 60D, but I expect that no other result in a different camera. And even if it would lead to better results in other tests would be such a power fluctuation already difficult to accept.

Conclusion:
- Workmanship Technically expected the device to very cheap and easily breakable
- Compared with other radio timers this price range the specified 60 meter range are very low
- Radio link breaks seemingly from sometimes and cause malfunctioning of the system
- Device worked unreliable with me and worked after the second use no longer via cable. Possible way this is also due to the slack in the interior that makes loudly with every movement of the transmitter noticeable
- Specified exposures in HDR mode, so that the ExIFS are flawed too short. (Normal exposure without HDR mode untested)

+ Operation is intuitive and easy
+ Lighting with 10 sec. Long enough
+ Connecting cable for all dig. EOS models is included

So if you want to play no ML, and want to have a comfortable Bracketing with more than 3 shots for his Canon you have probably resort to "Promote Control" for nearly 380 (so I suppose that works, I tested him not)

I'll probably grab it then times to ML.