Using the Nikon ML-L3 Remote

A very useful thing for the photographer - remote control camera.

Nikon ML-L3 Remote Control, which I often use

Nikon ML-L3 Remote Control, which I often use

What gives such a remote control:

  1. Possibility command focus and shutter release from a distance and do not use any wires.
  2. Possibility avoid shaking (jitter) when releasing the shutter.

I have an infrared remote control Nikon ML-L3Which is suitable for my Nikon.

Compatible with Nikon DSLR cameras D80, D40, D40X, D70s, D70, D50, D5000, D60, D5100, D3000, D90, D7000, D600, D5200, D610, D750, D7200, D7100, D3200, D5500, D5300, D3300, D3400. And digital cameras Coolpix P900, P7800, A, P7700, P7100, P7000. And Nikon mirrorless cameras 1 V3, 1 J1, 1 V2, 1 J2, 1 V1,

It is very convenient to use the remote control for shooting on a tripod, for example, when you need to shoot on long shutter speed. On flimsy tripods during descent (pressing the shutter button), you can still get camera shake, but nothing happens with the remote control. Also, this is an indispensable thing for self-portraits.

The remote control is powered by one tablet battery, the distance is usually as lucky, but stable up to 5 meters.

work Features:

In order to use the remote control, you need to set the desired camera mode - namely remote control shooting mode, it is usually designed as a rectangle and radio wave pictogram. After which the camera will respond to remote control commands. When a button on the remote control is pressed, the camera will try to focus and take a picture of the parameters set accordingly. Everything will be exactly as if you directly press the shutter button on the camera to the end. The feature is that in mode AF-C the camera will not focus when releasing through the remote control, but immediately releases the shutter. The camera focuses automatically only in focus mode AF-A,AF-S.

In BULB mode (excerpt by hand) the first press of the remote control button opens the shutter, and the second press closes the shutter, you do not need to keep the button pressed on the remote control, it is much more convenient than using the shutter button on the camera itself, which must be kept pressed in BULB mode.

If you set the shutter button function to the 'Movie' option, you can control the video recording using the remote control.

How can I replace the remote control?

Instead of using the remote control, I often use the usual shutter lag (usually from 2-3 to 30 seconds, an icon with a watch). In this way, you can avoid stirring and take a self portrait or a general picture with friends on a camping trip or at a party. For professional cameras such as D700I have a remote Nikon MC-30. You can also use any radio synchronizer for flashes that can control the camera, for example ComTrig T320.

Little trick:

Taking off your hands under difficult conditions to avoid camera shake from pressing the shutter button in some you can set the delay for raising the mirror. So on my camera Nikon D90, when using this function, the picture itself is taken a second after pressing the shutter button. True, this method loosens the nerves of the photographer, since it is always customary that after focusing, the picture takes place immediately, without delay. It also can control the video recording.

Where to buy?

You can buy here.

Conclusions:

The remote control for the camera is a useful thing for photographers often working with the camera on a tripod, but even without the remote control, you can do it using the considerations written in the article.

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Comments: 226 on the topic: Using the Nikon ML-L3 remote control

  • Novel

    Good day everyone. I haven't looked through the whole topic, but I decided to share - instead of a remote control I use Nokia 5500Sport, in principle any smart on Symbian will do with an IrDA. The program is called IrRemout Control, the code for Nikonov is in the program's database ...

  • Sergei

    Tell me an online store where you can choose either a remote control or a cable for remote control. D2100 camera. Worn out looking.

    • anonym

      eBay

    • anonym

      On eBay.com this remote can be bought for $ 2

      • Anatoly Bigaydarov, Gomel.

        Just yesterday I received an almost weightless parcel with such a remote control. But not from Ebay, but from Aliexpress. They usually send such things without a battery. 22 days (this is average) went to Gomel with the Finnish post. The cost of the remote control is 0,80 - 2,99 dollars (if you are not too lazy to look, I found it for 85 cents). Delivery from China! I haven't tried the remote control yet - there is no time to set up tripods, etc. I am sure it will work. By the way, nowhere does anyone really talk about the battery for this remote control. A lithium coin battery CR 2025 is suitable. I have the same for the remote control from the kitchen hood, although the kitchen remote control is 2,5 times larger than Nikon's.
        And one more piece of advice. When ordering such fragile electronics, small things, including protective screens for cell phones, smarts and so on, strongly ask the Chinese in the postscripts how to protect the parcels from barbaric damage. For example, they destroyed a plastic photo lens, a light filter, two well-packed glass screens for a smartphone. They smashed it on our still sovish mails - and I know with what - with the blows of date-plugs. Ja-ah because of the right, greasy shoulder !!! And tempered glass to pieces. Thirteen thousand kilometers flew from Far Eastern China to northern Finland, and from there - such rounds - to southern Belarus ... And on you - in the Gomel sorting or in your own post office ...

        • anonym

          I am vicious CR2032, the stink of three rude and “sitting” more beautiful. who is tsikavo

  • Tina

    Tell me, is it possible to connect the remote control to the L810?

    • NE

      I got this functionality when I bought a battery pack. I won’t say about the original whether it has an IR receiver and a remote control in the kit, and it costs 25 tr. Now, and in the analogue (flama) all this is

  • Vitaly

    With D3000, is it possible to increase the operating time of the IR receiver for more than 30s (an hour or three)?

  • Boris

    Good day! I have a D5100, how do I set the shutter button function to the 'Movie' option so that I can control video recording using the remote control?

    • Andrei

      I will support Boris's question - how to configure the ML-L3 remote control to enable video recording on the camera? Camera NIKON D5200, I could not find an intelligible answer on the Internet ...

      • Alex

        In the fotik setting in the video section, set the purpose of the shutter button to record video. Normal mode when she takes a photo and on the video there is a button nearby. But you can make an ATM so that it works depending on the camera mode and photos and videos immediately

        • Benjamin

          Good evening!
          I nevertheless wanted to clarify regarding the configuration of the Nikon D5100 to work with this remote control in video mode.
          How specifically to make the shutter-release button work both in the photo shooting mode and in the video shooting mode?

  • Konstantin

    Anyone who has remote control bullets from a Samsung air conditioner can use it instead of the original one from Nikon. On D 5100 it works for sure

  • Dimulia

    Hello Arkady! Tell me please. Faced a problem of this nature. I got an original Nikon ML-L3 remote control for Nikon D5100 camera in a specialized store. Upon arrival home, I set the desired shooting mode in the menu, began to check the remote control - it refused to work. Calling back to the store, I decided to drive up with a camera to eradicate the problem. After checking another remote control there, they began to change the batteries, but the miracle did not happen. Here's the original remotes for $ 20)) I wanted to know what's the matter, now I'm afraid to buy without checking. Advise where to buy a remote control for my model? And the correct settings in the camera.

    • Arkady Shapoval

      Just check immediately upon purchase.

    • Alexey

      What are 20 bucks? I ordered it for an ebay and received it for 2 dollars, I really waited a month, but a lens hood for whale 18-55 for 1,5 bucks. The lens hood is cast, the console works with a bang. Only I noticed that if you don’t touch it for two hours, then then 3-4 times you need to press a button to make a big shot. In general, I’m happy as an elephant.

      • Vladislav

        For $ 2 you purchased a non-original Chinese remote. I have such a remote somewhere lying around, came complete with a Chinese battery pack.

        But if you buy a branded, production of Nikon, then it will cost more than $ 20.

        Although, of course, you will not notice the difference in "functional" - what is there, that there is only one button))

        • u731

          So what, what is Chinese. I have a Chinese iPhone (yes, apple-trees are made in China). And also a Chinese MacBook (and the Chinese beech spanks). I even have a Chinese M4 (NORINKO). And with all this, the rifle does not cease to be reliable and accurate. Enough to live on the nameplates. Now everything is done in China !!!

        • Anatoly Bigaydarov, Gomel.

          Everything that you call the old-fashioned ORIGINALS has been in-line, in four shifts, manufactured in the PRC for 20 years. And in factories, under the tireless control of supervisors, and in ... hehe ... self-made workshops, where there is little or no control ...
          I recently received front caps for 52mm and 67mm Nikon lenses. For two with delivery for 13 thousand km I gave 1,45 dollars (we are asked for such 125-225 thousand (!!) rubles, plus delivery from Minsk). I wrote out the covers in stock. I involuntarily compared them with the “originals”. I did not find any differences from the “originals” - I was looking out for the difference with a specialist under a 10x magnifying glass! Even the logos are no different. By the way, it is preferable to take purely Chinese caps also because, most often, they are supplemented with strings (caps with strings are no longer lost!).

    • u731

      Without sucker, life is bad :-))) I ordered this remote control for my nikon d7000 on ibey for $ 1.4. Delivery is already included in the price. Everything works. So stop feeding local hucksters. Order on ibeys and you will be happy ;-)

  • Kiba

    Arkady, you are the most patient person on the Internet)))))

    • Arkady Shapoval

      :)

  • Tretyakovmax

    I can make such a remote control on MK :) Who needs it?

  • Basil

    Hello Arkady! Tell me please, will Nikon ML-L3 work with a D610 camera? if not, what will it be? thanks.

    • To myself

      On the question - will the Nikon ML-L3 work with the D610 camera? - will be., I just bought a camera, checked it, it works great, however, like the camera itself.

  • Pastor

    In addition to the comment about the Symbian, I can say that Android phones can also control the descent of the camera. The main thing is that there is an infrared port, and there are enough programs in the market. I have a Samsung Galaxy Note 3 and Camera remote. On the Nikon d80 and d5100 everything works as it should.

  • Maksim

    Did someone order this remote on ebay? I can not achieve the cost of delivery to my country. and then the remote control is worth two bucks, but delivery will suddenly drag out for a hundred)

    • Anatoly Bigaydarov, Gomel.

      Watch it. Sun

      • Anatoly, Gomel

        It is necessary to watch. Everything is spelled out there. It happens, and often happens that paid delivery. Delivery from there is no less than 25-115 bucks. I work with Aliexpress. Free shipping here - in most cases.

        • Robert

          With ebay, you need to set free shipping and everything is fine and watch the price

  • Novel

    I bought a similar HONGDAK IR remote control on ebay.de, 4 Euro, delivery was free. In the mail envelope sent by the seller. (I’ll clarify that I live in Germany) Not the original of course, but one to one like the ML-L3.
    Thanks to this article, because at the beginning I didn’t understand why I didn’t get sharpness from the remote control. I just incorrectly set the settings on the D7000 camera (it was AF-C), so it was sad that the remote control only works for descent.
    I have not read the instructions, I repent. )))
    Thanks Arkady!

  • Natalia

    Hello, Arkady! I can’t take a picture of myself, I get out of focus (((Maybe I can try something in the settings of the camera, I have Nikon d7000?

  • anonym

    Natalya, you probably have to focus on one point and it is not aimed at the person, but in the background, for example. Try moving the point (by looking at the picture taken where it was) or select the automatic focus area (filled rectangle in brackets).

  • Eugene

    How to set up a Nikon-D800 camera on a remote. control ML-L3?

    • Arkady Shapoval

      No way, she does not work with him.

      • Maksim

        How is that?

        • Arkady Shapoval

          The D800 cannot use the ML-L3, it needs the ML-3 or others.

          • NE

            To the knowledge base: read about the battery pack above

  • Ivan

    Just bought and tested a remote with my D90. For some reason, it only works after 3-4 clicks.

  • Alexander

    Is it really impossible to write a few words how it works, its device. What I'm on a tripod
    I make a timer and wait .. but for some reason, the timer itself began to take 3 pictures.
    I need a timer in my hand .. I pressed a button and let go

    How can I replace the remote control?
    Instead of using the remote control, I often use the usual shutter lag (usually from 2-3 to 30 seconds, an icon with a watch).
    Well, your opinion here is not in the Topic ..or dear Remote or simple like this

    • anonym

      Alexander, are you chromosome downito or what? How can it work? This is an IR remote control, so in their pocket they will not work out! The camera should be in direct line of sight of the remote control. You can replace the remote. Call a person who will take pictures while you are posing there. )))

  • anonym

    I ordered one for aliexpress, 75 cents with a battery and delivery

  • Andrei

    Who owns the information, please tell me if both of the ML-L3 series remotes (the original from Nikon and its counterpart from Flama) have two-position button travel, that is, half-pressing and pressing to the end (imitation of the shutter button on the camera) ...?
    Or differences in the operation of these remotes?

    • Anatoly, Gomel

      By technology, these consoles, incl. and Chinese for 70 kopecks, they work on a completely different principle - woe from wits? - just pressed. And pressed it a second time. You shot something.

  • Andrei

    It is unfortunate that the D3100 does not have an infrared port, so the console is only with a wire, about 1m. Therefore, I did not order it on a Chinese site. I am surprised that on the older younger model D40 IK is!

    • Arseny

      Where is the D40 younger than 3100?))

  • anonym

    I ordered the ML-L3 remote control on Aliexpress. It works perfectly and in general I order everything for the camera there.

  • Saintoleg80

    I’ll add to the response distance - it works up to 10 meters. recently traveled with his family to the forest, and they shot themselves from a tripod from 8-10 meters. in my opinion, the remote control is more convenient than the shutter lag; no need to jerk around, choosing a pose and facial expression, settled down, tuned in and go! ;-)

  • Valentine

    I have been using it for 4 years, it’s a very convenient little thing, there are zero failures. If I don’t use it for a long time, I disconnect the battery with a piece of polyethylene under the cover.

  • MaX

    Specifically, my D700 can not do without a remote control. The shutter herachit so that the picture is smearing. Do not advise, buy an IR receiver and a wireless remote control, or take a cable?

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