cynicaster
No longer a newbie, moving up!
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As mentioned above, I have the Canon variant of these triggers and have spent the last few months playing around with them.
I have (3) Canon speedlights, and I'm able to manually set them separately from the camera, which is amazingly convenient (and fun).
As much as I've enjoyed this product, there is one thing I feel compelled to talk about for the sake of full disclosure. I'm finding that the hot-shoe mounts on the transceivers are a bit finicky sometimes. One of the first times I used the triggers, I simply could not get one of my flashes to adjust its power and zoom settings to match what I was sending from the camera. It would fire, but not with the settings I was programming. Eventually I determined that the transceiver on that flash was simply not making adequate contact with the "data" terminals on the flash. Removing the transceiver and re-installing it tightly fixed the problem. This has happened one other time since, but luckily I recognized the problem and was able to correct it right away without fumbling around and/or wasting time.
All in all, it hasn't been a big deal, more of a minor annoyance. I've gotten into the habit of testing the communications before mounting the flashes up in umbrellas or hanging them off rafters or other hard-to-reach spots. That's probably good practice anyway.
I have (3) Canon speedlights, and I'm able to manually set them separately from the camera, which is amazingly convenient (and fun).
As much as I've enjoyed this product, there is one thing I feel compelled to talk about for the sake of full disclosure. I'm finding that the hot-shoe mounts on the transceivers are a bit finicky sometimes. One of the first times I used the triggers, I simply could not get one of my flashes to adjust its power and zoom settings to match what I was sending from the camera. It would fire, but not with the settings I was programming. Eventually I determined that the transceiver on that flash was simply not making adequate contact with the "data" terminals on the flash. Removing the transceiver and re-installing it tightly fixed the problem. This has happened one other time since, but luckily I recognized the problem and was able to correct it right away without fumbling around and/or wasting time.
All in all, it hasn't been a big deal, more of a minor annoyance. I've gotten into the habit of testing the communications before mounting the flashes up in umbrellas or hanging them off rafters or other hard-to-reach spots. That's probably good practice anyway.
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