I'm afraid I'm still firmly in the vaporware crowd.
Dr. Flash
usher99@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Well,
> At the risk of being accused of being a broken record, the
> Radiopoppers may go 2000 ft+. Their flagship P1 should be out soon with
> the radiopopper Jr (25 bucks or so) to follow. The latter on pressing
> them the Jr. is little more than in the napkin drawing stage, though
> they antecipate a stremlined launch by this summer for that. They will
> support Canikon first for (cough, cough)
> TTL (Dr. Flash may have slept in today and I'll sneak this by) though
> it is simple for them to tune the item for Pentax or Oly and they plan
> to do so after the launch. They would even consider OM support if
> nudged enough as the tuning for other platforms is almost trivial. For
> unclear reasons they have trouble picking up the magnetic signal from
> the Canyon 580 but no the 580 Ex11 or whatever the new one with the
> "new auto" mode and weather seals is called.
>
> http://strobist.blogspot.com/2008/02/radiopopper-photos-posted.html
>
>
> Thanks for the info about Microsync slaves. I'd never heard of them.
> That caused me to go to B&H and do a search on radio slaves
> <http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/shop/8007/Slave_Units_Accessories_Radio_In
> frared_Slaves.html>
> which returned that and some other brands I knew about but had
> forgotten
> about. Strangely, the Elinchrom line doesn't show up although B&H
> sells
> them. There are also some relabeled Chinese models there (Impact,
> Photogenic, Speedotron) you can buy on ebay (without the relabel) for a
> fraction of the B&H price.
>
> I do like my Sekonic L-358 very much except that the shutter
> speed/aperture/ISO dial turns the wrong way. I bought it from B&H at a
> time that Sekonic was having a sale that included the Pocket Wizard
> transmitter module. But I have never been willing to spring for the
> cost of Pocket Wizards. I have used it a number of times with borrowed
> Pocket Wizards and it works fine but doesn't have the full range of a
> Pocket Wizard transmitter. I've read on more than one occasion that
> the
> range is only about 30 feet but Sekonic claims up to 100 feet and I'm
> sure I've gotten it to work OK in an unobstructed area at probably
> close
> to that.
>
> But the cheap ebay slaves, while not as convenient, work just as well
> within their range. Just use the short PC cord that comes with the
> radio slaves to attach the transmitter to the PC socket on the flash
> meter.
>
> Dr. Flash
>
> Daniel Sepke wrote:
>> James,
>>
>
>
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