How do I enable infrared remote triggering on my Canon Rebel T5

[jjmac]

My awesome wife bought me a complete starter kit with a Canon Rebel T5 (not a T5i) for my birthday... I'm so stoked! In the starter kit was an infrared remote that looks like this.

It says I just need to set my camera to accept remote triggering in order to use this remote. But I cannot for the life of me find it! I tried searching google but any time I type anything remotely (no pun intended) related to Canon Rebel, I get pages and pages of places to buy one and not much information at all on how to use one.

Thanks for your time!

[Skirball]

It's under the drive settings (left button on the circle on back), look for this icon:

[hsbn]

You have to change the Drive mode to Self Timer

http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-change-the-drive-mode-on-the-canon-rebel-t5.html

[jjmac]

Thank you for your reply 🙂

I actually looked here thinking it would make sense for that option to be here, however when I go to this screen it doesn't have that option, it looks like this:

[hsbn]

Use the 3rd option, self timer

[jjmac]

Ok I will try it, I was posting before I saw your reply. Thank you both for your help, I'll come back and let you know if it worked 🙂

[ebiggs1]

One thing to remember, IR is mostly line of sight and the distance is not too great.

Not all cameras support IR triggering.

[jjmac]

I'm beginning to wonder if the T5 does support it or not. I assumed it does because the IR remote came in the kit with the camera as a bundle. However I tried for an hour last night using the setting recommended here (and some more) at various distances and I could not get it to work.

I haven't seen anything in the documentation saying that it does or does not support IR triggering. Does anyone know of a way I can find out for sure?

[Skirball]

Ah, sorry, I didn't read closely.  Didn't realize it was a T5, not a T5i.  Now that you mention it, I vaguely remember one of the administrators pointing out that the T5 doesn't have IR in a discussion we had awhile back.  Now, why they would sell a remote in a kit with a camera that doesn't have that capabilities is odd.  I assume this was some small company bundle?

[Skirball · Accepted solution]

Yup, no IR.  Sorry  😞

http://forums.usa.canon.com/t5/EOS-Rebel/what-are-major-differences-between-the-T5-and-the-T5i/m-p/1...