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I've read about it on Stobist and it sounds like a slick item for Nikon and Canon users if it works well. Certainly seems to me that anyone with some electronics background could make such a thing. Commercial viability always takes cash, though, so I'm waiting to see if it hits the market.
 
Sounds like a hot item for ams and pros using system flashes. Can't wait to read some tests on how well it works in certain situations.

Viktor
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I coud really use this not so much for the ETTL II support but with the fact that with a 580EX master on camera you can set manual power output on all your slaves without having to touch each flash. Very nice...
 
dogwood said:
Take a gander at the strobist site today. Not many positive comments
on the latest design of this.
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I just read the comments...

Good grief! This device is for wedding professionals and other event shooters who wound not even consider eBay triggers, duck tape, slow recycling Vivatar 285's and have NO TIME for touching each and every flash to tweak settings. We have only 580EX's and cost is not much of an issue. They praise PW's on the strobist but flip out at something like this??? They are quite a bunch of swashbucklers!

I expect that the next revision will add support for the PC port. Relax all you DIY flash guys why do you care anyway as you have your precious Pocket Wizards!!
 
The ETTL part is very mysterious/suspicious. What does that mean, exactly? I didn't see it anywhere in the vague PDF files.
Canon only? How does it talk to a flash, exactly?

It's so short on any technical details that I can't even render an opinion. Does it convert IR to RF to IR again? If so, why not simply freakin' say that?
-Kent
 
Kent Johnson said:
The ETTL part is very mysterious/suspicious. What does that mean,
exactly? I didn't see it anywhere in the vague PDF files.
Canon only? How does it talk to a flash, exactly?
It's so short on any technical details that I can't even render an
opinion. Does it convert IR to RF to IR again? If so, why not simply
freakin' say that?
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My understanding is this:
  • Canon does not use IR as it is commonly thought of. If your master is the 580EX then a visible white light flash is fired so fast before the real one that you don't see it. This "pre-flash" tells the slaves how much power to output based on ETTL or how much manual power to output if the 580EX had been configured that way.
  • The radiopopper device stuck to your master flash also "sees" this preflash and instantly radio frequency the values to the receiving radiopopper which then tells the slave it is stuck to how much power to output.
 
... their claim that we no longer need to worry about x-sync is totally bogus. All this hand shaking takes time. It really does.

Don't get me wrong, I love the idea, but I just can't see Canon, Nikon, et al making this reliably possible. It's not how they think.
-Kent
 
Kent Johnson said:
OK then their claim that we no longer need to worry about x-sync is
totally bogus. All this hand shaking takes time. It really does.
Don't get me wrong, I love the idea, but I just can't see Canon,
Nikon, et al making this reliably possible. It's not how they think.
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This is a concern of mine too. The lag time I mean and how they are overcoming it. I would not think that they would put themselves out there for failure but who knows. They did say that popular well known photographers will be testing it so it will be interesting to see what is said.
 
I am less sceptical than many here I guess. The idea here is fab and, if it can be shown to work, I am greatly in favour.

More support please for people who dare to do things differently rather than knocking them for trying

Have you seen the Popper Junior? $25 for radio trigger for studio strobes. At that price, I'll be buying a dozen if they work. It is claimed this is at cost and done as a service to the industry.

If all true, then much credit to these guys for providing a very real alternative to PWs for those that can't afford it.

Mike.

.... and I have no involvement with them except as an excited prospective client.

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The site is plain ridiculous! No images, smart-ass FAQ "answers", no blog... nothing.

You can't market a product in such a teenage manner.

All this "will show when ready" is so bad for business. If you're not ready stay low until you are!
 
INDEED...I tried to find pictures of the product, but quickly lost patience and said screw it...we consumers are fickle.
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You dont have to converth the light signal again after it is converted to radio, you just need to out-put to the regular ettl contacts in the hot shoe. I would guess that the reciever is designed as a hotshoe and stand connector one piece. that is what I would do.
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