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Re: [OM] PC adapter for E-M5?

Subject: Re: [OM] PC adapter for E-M5?
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2016 12:46:34 -0400
I guess it's been a long time since I've used my studio lights in a crowded venue but I suddenly thought of the best reason for using radio triggered strobes. If there are other photographers around using flash their flashes may trigger yours if the trigger is optical.

Chuck Norcutt


On 8/3/2016 11:59 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
I hate wires so my studio flash units are radio triggered.  I have Alien
Bee flash units by Paul C. Buff and also use their radio gear which is
generic but very high quality and not too costly.

They have different models but I use this basic, battery powered unit as
my shoe mounted transmitter <http://www.paulcbuff.com/cst2.php>

I have two of these receivers (the small battery powered unit at left)
<http://www.paulcbuff.com/csr.php>  If all of your lights are close
together you only need one and the others will be triggered optically
when the first one fires.  However, I have two receivers since I
sometimes used to place a couple of lights at the far end of a  very
large hall... too far for the optical slaves to work (or at least I
thought so... I never tried the optical slaves from 50 meters away)

But Kens idea of using the camera pop-up flash unit as the trigger will
also likely work if the studio lights aren't too far away.  It's
certainly not too difficult to do a test before you part with your money
for radio gear.  I've thought about this myself but have never tried it.
 Most of my use of these lights was with the Canon 5D which doesn't have
a little, low power pop-up flash.  I hadn't gotten so far as to worry
about the little flash's contribution to the exposure.  In the E-M5's
auto mode you have flash compensation control and in manual mode a large
range of fractional power controls.

Chuck Norcutt


On 8/1/2016 6:14 PM, Paul Braun wrote:
Interesting. The studio flashes use optical triggers for slaving, so
that may work.


Paul Braun WD9GCO
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On Aug 1, 2016, at 16:42, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I would recommend a hotshoe PC adapter. Generic as dirt and usually a
little bit less problematic. Another option, if you don't want to use
radio triggers is to put the stand-mounted flashes in optical slave
and trigger them with the built-in camera flash. I'm not sure which
settings you have to adjust to make sure you don't get pre-flash, but
since you are in manual exposure mode, that should do the trick if you
put the flash in manual mode at the most minimum power setting it
takes to fire the flashes. Typically, you can go up to 1/4 power with
no evidence whatsoever of the camera flash, except for a little
twinkle in the eyes.

If you have one the E-system flashes that is "wireless" control, place
that as the background fill, or position it to trigger the optical
slaves of the stand flashes. That way, you'll pretty much entirely do
away with any evidence of on-camera flash.

But, I personally like the eye-sparkle and the way the on-camera
direct flash opens up the eyes and further takes a few years off of
the people.

AG
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