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For the Wireless radio trigger:
- You need at least one Transmitter which attached to the camera via hotshore or sync port with cable and one receiver which attached to the flash directly via hotshoe (yes, most of them provide a hotshoe for the flash) or sync port with cable. So if you 6 flashes, you just need 1 transmitter and 6 receivers and 6 flashes.
- You do not really need sync cord at all, you can just use hotshoe on the camera for the transmitter, and hotshoe on the receiver for the flash. (you can, but you do not have to)
- When you press the shutter button, the transmitter will send signal to the receivers and all flashes on the receivers will fire at the same time. Much better than using optical slave especially during the day or there is not line of sight between the camera and flash. You can even put the receiver with flash inside a pot or behind a wall, it will still fire.
Take a look at the following video, this is a Cactus Radio Trigger (a little more expensive), but you should get the idea on how those radio triggers setup.
Also, those lower cost Radio trigger works with manual flash (no TTL) or regular flash that has manual settings.
Ahh I see now. So then the PT 04 comes with 2 receivers. So then I put the transmitter thing on the camera hotsoes, and I can put the macro flash ring on the bracket with 1 of the receivers, and just attack the other receiver to the yongnuo flash and i'm all set.
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