Phottix Cleon digital remote warning

Many of you may be familiar with this third-party remote for popular digital

camera models. Cheaper than the name brand units it is a very tempting

alternative however, a recent trend of bad orders and unresponsiveness on the

part of the seller has resulted in people like myself losing money.

I heard about this product in a forum like this and only wish someone had

advised me of this situation before ordering.

Cheers

I think the fair thing is for people to be able to read the whole thread relating to this and decide for themselves:

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/readflat.asp?forum=1039&thread=27416247

this sounds like a seller problem and not a quality problem. I bought a photix remote and love ussing it. Its a great device.

<p>I have to add my two cents. My Cleon (Nikon) broke after less than a year of light use. First, the useable distance of the wireless started to get shorter and shorter, even after replacing the batteries. Second, the button presses on the wireless remote started becoming extremely unreliable even at very short range. Third, the the cheap plastic button on the wired remote pressed "in" and never came "out". An attempt to right the misalignment or whatever resulted in the button completely self destructing rendering the unit completely useless. I repeat, this was very minimally used in a normal non-abusive manner.<br>

As is usual in life, you get what you pay for. I only wish i could find a good wireless remote alternative for the pro Nikon lineup. </p>