If I may intrude in this thread - I'd be curious to see some of the
photographs of anyone on the list for which a flash was essential to
the success of the take - don't mistake me, I just need to learn from
you all.
Thank you in anticipation
Amities
Philippe whose experience is rather that flash spoils a shot
Le 18 févr. 14 à 21:57, Andrew Fildes a écrit :
> My experience has been a little different. I have watched people
> struggling with things like Pocket Wizards and failing because they
> have soooo many features and options and channels and stuff that
> they couldn't get them set up in a new situation quickly.
> Meanwhile I've been using cheap Chinese triggers in workshop
> situations for years (where I need up to half-a-dozen in three
> rooms). Easy to set separate channels for different groups (visible,
> manual, DIP switches) and I've only ever had one fail. Range? -
> someone in another room in a separate but adjoining building with
> four brick walls and open space between us was firing my flash the
> other day (they wander off with the trigger still in the hot shoe).
> I'm using ones branded 'Nice' at present - the receiver is the AC
> power type plugged into the power line with a synch plug on a
> stretchy wire. I use them with both Monoblocs and floor packs. They
> don't even have an On-Off switch - if they're on the camera and the
> flash is on, they're working and I only have to check/label them for
> zones. No features, no options, no errors. I did go through a spell
> where some of them didn't seem to fire consistently with Olympus
> bodies (E3/5) but never any problems with Canikon.
> The only down side is that I can't seem to top-up if they go missing
> or break - every time I buy units they seem to be unable to talk to
> each other. So I buy a new full set for less than half the cost of
> one pair of fancy units and sell the remnants on ebay or at the
> camera market. Or give them to workshop clients.
> I've found the battery powered receiver units just as useful. So
> have my strobist mates. I even have spare batteries for those
> receivers just in case. (It's an odd one). I think some people think
> that they're unreliable because the trigger unit also has a button
> battery in it that's not easy to replace. Not dead, flat battery,
> take it apart.
>
> Andrew Fildes
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>
>
> On 19/02/2014, at 1:33 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>
>> I'd suggest you get yourself a real radio transmitter and receiver of
>> which there are many on the market. I like my Alien Bees units...
>> the
>> little battery powered CyberSync units shown here
>> <http://www.paulcbuff.com/cybersync.php> but there are many others on
>> the market. I gave up on my original cheapy ebay units because
>> they had
>> not much range and were very unreliable.
>>
>> Note: some of the CyberSync units are AC powered for studio strobes.
>
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