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Triggering multiple flashes of older/ not compatible brands can be a really headache. Luckily, there are few solutions that will not hurt your wallet but safe the photo set!
In this episode David Bergman with AdoramaTv will show various methods of triggering multi-flash setup!
In episode 34 David already talked about why you might want to use more than one flash inside a light modifier.
David stated: “You’ll increase your power, lower your recycle time, and get more power out of your batteries. But once you have your flashes mounted Then you have to make them all fire at the same time and that can be tricky.”
“If you’re using something like the Canon 600EX-RT flashes, it’s super easy. RT stands for radio transmission and they have built-in radios that talk to each other wirelessly, so just use another Canon RT flash or the dedicated transmitter on top of your camera, and you can make all the remote flashes fire every time you take a picture.”
David continues: “Some of the other camera companies also make similar radio systems, but maybe you have an older flash that doesn’t have a built-in radio, or another brand of flash that doesn’t work natively with your system. If the flashes have an optical trigger built-in, you can set it to fire when it sees a light come from a flash that’s on your camera.”
“You can also add external optical triggers to each one. That’ll do the same thing, you just can’t shoot an auto TTL mode because your primary flash fires a short pre-flash, to gauge the light, and that’ll make your remote flashes fire too early. So shoot on manual flash only, and you should be okay. “
“If you use a third-party radio system like pocket Wizards, you might have to put a separate receiver on each flash. However since they use standard 3.5mm jacks, you can pick up a cheap headphone splitter like this Belkin model, that allows you to plug one PocketWizard into multiple flashes, and they all sync together just fine. “
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