This reply is probably not very helpful but might help someone thinking
about buying remote triggers. I recently purchased this remote set from
that same seller (http://tinyurl.com/2fp2aq). It works flawlessly, have not
checked the range yet, but it fires my T-32s and FL-50 every time. It is a
great gadget, even my wife agrees on that.
J
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Royall" <jamesroyall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2007 14:41
Subject: [OM] Remote flash trigger has me baffled
>
> Firstly, I've put up photos from the 4-day portrait course I did just
> before Christmas. There's a few that are up there purely because I
> wanted to include at least one of everyone on the course. Thanks to
> William for the hotshoe pc socket adaptor - of course the college had
> IR remote triggers that went straight into the hotshoe so I didn't
> need to worry.
>
> web.mac.com/jamesroyall/iWeb/james photog/csm portraits.html
>
> The problem I'm having is with one of these:
>
> http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmagicQ5ftrigger (click on one of the
> items to see a detailed description)
>
> I bought the 16 channel version for no particular reason other than
> they were hardly more expensive than the basic version and yes, I'm
> sure the base cause of the trouble is that they're poorly made cheap
> bits of plastic from China. But I can't figure out what's going on.
>
> The trigger will fire my old T32 but not my new FL36, which is the
> one I need it to work with. Both flashes fired just fine on my OM2n.
> The confirmation light blinks on the receiver but whatever signal it
> sends out to the flash doesn't do the trick. I've been through the
> manual for the FL36 and can't find anything. I've tried insulating
> the other three contacts on the shoe of the FL36 to make sure there
> was no confusion from them making some kind of connection, but no
> change. From Chuck's mail in December it seems that the flash is
> supplying the power and the receiver is just meant to a switch that
> closes. Any ideas what it could be?
>
> Thanks,
> James
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