How to Use a Remote With Your Nikon D70

Taking a shot with a remote frees you up to move around your shoot and make adjustments as needed. This article will tell you how to do it.

Steps

1
Be sure that you have the remote. For the Nikon D70, it is an ML-L3 (or the ML-L1). There are also third party remotes that you can get.
2
Determine if you are going to use Single Frame or Continuous.

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3
Put your camera on a tripod. No reason to use the remote if you are holding the camera.
4
Press the shooting mode button. Rotate the command dial (on the back of the camera) until the self timer symbol appears. This is a circle with a line through part of it.
5
Decide if you want to delay the remote activation or not.
6
Frame your photograph and focus.
7
Depress the button on the remote. Depending on if you chose to delay the activation, or not, your camera will take a picture.