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Remote shutter release for Sony Alpha 6000: at a Glance

  • Oct 02, 2025
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The Sony Alpha 6000, you can control on various types using a remote trigger. What are the possibilities in the case of the popular entry-level camera, we will show in this post.

Sony Alpha 6000: a remote shutter on your Smartphone

A great Feature of the Sony Alpha cameras, the remote control App on the Smartphone. We will show you step by step how this works:

  1. First, install the App "PlayMemories Mobile" on your iPhone or Android Smartphone.
  2. Then, you start the camera and look in the system settings to the "application list". You go to the App "Smart remote control".
  3. Now is built up from the camera to a Wi-Fi network. Connect your phone using the displayed access data with this network.
  4. The Wi-Fi connection, is open on the Smartphone, "PlayMemories Mobile"App. After a short initialization, get it now on the phone Display, the image your camera is displayed, and can make the record Button photos.
Sony Alpha 6000: a remote shutter via Smartphone App
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You can use the camera with a wireless remote shutter release

  • The Sony Alpha cameras you can use a classic remote shutter that is connected via Micro-USB cable. Popular on Amazon, for example, remote shutter release, the brand PM.
  • In the case of a radio remote trigger to insert the batteries and connect the transmitter and the receiver as the manual describes. Then slide the receiver on the flash Shoe of the Alpha 6000, and connect the Micro-USB cable with the appropriate connector on the left side of the camera.
  • When you press the shutter release button on the transmitter, should the camera to capture a photo. If this does not work, nor can it help that the camera and the remote shutter release, and back on.

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Steve, Thu 21, 2023

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