I deal with that a lot at PPNC. They have shooting sessions at the convention
and regional seminars. Last few years they've been switching over to systems
with dedicated CaNikon modules and poor ol' Pentax shootin' me gets left behind.
But almost all the new studio strobes are still PocketWizard compatible, or else
the vendor hangs a PocketWizard on them as a supplementary trigger. I went out
and bought a second hand PocketWizard PlusII transceiver for $60 so I can play too.
That might be a semi-solution. If they're going to continue with photography,
they're likely to need a radio trigger of their own anyway.
The first set of cheap Chinese triggers I bought would fire the first generation
PocketWizard receivers. I think you can still find them on eBay under the
"CowboyStudio" name. I just looked there, and a transmitter with two receivers
was under $30.
On 4/23/2018 09:46, Mark Roberts wrote:
Bruce Walker wrote:
Mark, what you experienced is one of the reasons I don't recommend folks
try that popup flash triggering hack. The other of course is the light
pollution from the popup flash getting into the shot and flattening the
contrast.
Understood. But when you have to have groups of 3-5 students shooting
at once and only one radio trigger, well, optical triggering it is.
But you have at least two possible issues with each student's camera: the
x-TTL pre-flash, and the "red eye reduction" pre-flash. Either or both of
these might be enabled in any given camera.
I did check to make sure red-eye reduction was turned off. I didn't
see any options for turning off X-TTL pre-flash. I may have missed it
(we had a lot of different cameras, obviously) or it may not have been
an option in the very cheap DSLRs the students had.
BTW, most PCB strobes come with a really long old-school PC-Sync cable.
That might have helped with any of the students cameras that have a sync
socket.
Sync socket? Har! Not on any of the cameras here. I'm genuinely
surprised they all had manual exposure as an option.
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