New! DSLR Remote Pro Multi-Camera 1.4 adds support for capturing video from multiple cameras simultaneously
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Control multiple Canon EOS digital SLRs from a single PC running Windows 7, WIndows Vista or Windows XP. Designed for movie special effects such as the "bullet time" or "time slice" effects made famous by the movie "The Matrix", stereo video capture for 3D movies, product shots, panorama photography and other specialist applications requiring multiple cameras. Please also see the PSRemote Multi-Camera page for information about controlling multiple Canon PowerShot cameras.
Part of an array of 120 Canon EOS 30D cameras controlled using 5 laptops running
DSLR Remote Pro Multi-Camera
Shooting a car advertisement at Santa Monica Airport
(DSLR Remote Pro Multi-Camera controlling 120 Canon EOS 30D cameras using 5 laptops)
DSLR Remote Pro Multi-Camera - control up to 16 Canon EOS 7D, EOS 50D, EOS 40D, 30D, 1000D/Rebel XS, 550D/Rebel T2i, 500D/Rebel T1i, 450D/Rebel XSi, 400D/Rebel XTi, 5D Mark II, 1D Mark IV, 1D Mark III or 1Ds Mark III cameras from a single PC. All the standard features of DSLR Remote Pro plus the following:
- Control the settings of all the cameras from a single PC (e.g. setting ISO, Tv, Av etc.)
- Synchronize the clocks on each camera with the PC time
- Synchronize camera settings
- Display a summary of the settings for each camera
- Select an individual camera and take preview shots displaying the image at 2x or 4x magnification for accurate alignment and focusing. Or use the live view display with the Canon EOS 7D, EOS 50D, EOS 40D, 1000D/Rebel XS, 550D/Rebel T2i, 500D/Rebel T1i, 450D/Rebel XSi, 5D Mark II, 1D Mark III, 1D Mark IV or 1Ds Mark III
- Take a picture on all cameras either from the PC or using a remote shutter release (more details...)
- Capture video from multiple cameras simultaneously (video is captured to the cameras' memory cards only and is only available with cameras that support movie mode)
- Edit the owner string for each camera so that it can be used for naming the images as they are downloaded
- Automatically download the images to the PC and name them according to which camera took the picture
a free fully functional 15-day trial version which supports up to 4 cameras.
How accurately can the cameras be synchronized?
For best results the cameras should be set to manual focus and triggered via the remote release sockets. The figures below are for guidance purposes only. Please see this page for more information.
Triggering still photos via USB: The cameras will fire one after the other with a delay of approximately 1/6th sec between each camera e.g. with 4 cameras camera #2 will fire approximately 1/6th sec after camera #1, camera #3 will fire approximately 1/3rd sec after camera #1 and camera #4 will fire approximately 1/2th sec after camera #1
Triggering still photos via the remote release socket: The cameras all fire at the same time within the tolerances of their shutter lag. If all the cameras are of the same model they will typically all fire within 0.5ms of each other however occasionally a camera will have a longer shutter lag and may be out of sycn with the other cameras by several milliseconds.
Triggering video capture via USB: The cameras will fire one after the other with a delay of approximately 1/10th sec between each camera e.g. with 4 cameras camera #2 will fire approximately 1/10th sec after camera #1, camera #3 will fire approximately 1/5th sec after camera #1 and camera #4 will fire approximately 3/10th sec after camera #1
Triggering video capture via the remote release socket: It isn't possible to trigger video capture using the camera's remote release socket with current camera models.
