Hey guys, I have always heard that pocket wizards are industry standard and that you can count on them to work every time. However, I find them to be very inconsistent when used with my SB-800. At first I thought it was a problem with the 1 of the 3 wizards I have, so I marked each with a number and started doing testing. I quickly found that no matter what combination I used, I always got inconsistent triggering.
Then we got 3 more pw and have the same results with those. I started to wonder if it were a battery issue b/c some days they work phenomenal and others they only work intermittently.
I can even manually press the button on the the pw that's attached to the strobe and it still won't fire the strobe. Or sometimes it will fire it, but it will fire it 3 times in a row really quick...like it's got a short or something.
Today I was shooting a pretty big job and I needed them to work. I put fresh batteries in them and started shooting. I only got them to fire probably a handful of times.
I was just wondering if anyone else had this problem with them?
Then we got 3 more pw and have the same results with those. I started to wonder if it were a battery issue b/c some days they work phenomenal and others they only work intermittently.
I can even manually press the button on the the pw that's attached to the strobe and it still won't fire the strobe. Or sometimes it will fire it, but it will fire it 3 times in a row really quick...like it's got a short or something.
Today I was shooting a pretty big job and I needed them to work. I put fresh batteries in them and started shooting. I only got them to fire probably a handful of times.
I was just wondering if anyone else had this problem with them?