Godox - operate camera and speedlight remotely

[Milfred Newton]

I want to control a Nikon D7200 and SB-910 speedlite remotely at the same time.

I have a Godox Xpro transmitter and two Godox X1R's.

I have hooked up one X1R to the camera via the sync cable and the other X1R to the SB-910 speedlight.

Using the Xpro, I can trigger both the shutter and the flash.

Unfortunately the light burst of the flash is not in the image - the flash and shutter are not in sync with one another.

I cannot determine the solution to this via either camera setting or Godox setting. Anyone's help/suggestion is very much appreciated.

Milfred

 

[fotowbert]

I want to control a Nikon D7200 and SB-910 speedlite remotely at the same time.

I have a Godox Xpro transmitter and two Godox X1R's.

I have hooked up one X1R to the camera via the sync cable and the other X1R to the SB-910 speedlight.

Using the Xpro, I can trigger both the shutter and the flash.

Unfortunately the light burst of the flash is not in the image - the flash and shutter are not in sync with one another.

I cannot determine the solution to this via either camera setting or Godox setting. Anyone's help/suggestion is very much appreciated.

Milfred

The flash is firing early with the signal to trip the shutter and not when the camera's flash sync circuit is activated by the shutter being open. This is a small but critical timing difference.

I believe to do this with Godox you need two transmitters (TX) and two receivers (RX) operating on different channels. Use one RX/TX pair for remote shutter and the other pair as flash triggers (TX in hot-shoe). The RF (Radio Frequency) remote shutter can be any brand if you don't want to purchase an X1T-N unit.

The Godox instructions, page 31 shows the use the same X1R-N port (they call it the "shutter release port") for either flash and remote shutter. There is also no mention of telling the TX which function you want its test button to perform. This means their Rx doesn't have independent flash and remote shutter circuits, a feature YongNuo introduced some years ago on their original RF-603 flash triggers.

• John

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"[If you don't sweat the details] the magic doesn't work." Brooks, F. P., The Mythical Man-Month, Addison-Wesley, 1975, page 8.

 

[Sailor Blue]

It is like fotobert said, you need two pairs of transmitters and receivers on different frequencies.

One of the first pair in your hand as the remote camera trigger transmitter with its receiver plugged into the camera's remote trigger port.

One of the second in the camera's hot-shoe as the transmitter to trigger the flash's receiver.

I'll repeat for emphasis; the two pairs MUST be on different frequencies.

 

[WalterJ1959]

This is what I use to trigger the camera remotely. Just have the Godox on the camera hot shoe like normal, and use the remote just like pressing the shutter button.

I use a Pixel Oppilas RW-221 Wireless Shutter Control. This is to trigger the camera from far away when I want to be in the shot. It is about 100m range. It allows you to half press to focus if you need to (face/eye detect), single shot, continuous high speed and bulb. But NO interval. Having focus control is good to have if needed. Very small and reliable at distance. From China on e-bay.

 

[tdwesbo]

You can do it with another transmitter as someone has already suggested, but you may want to just invest in a cheap, dedicated remote radio release. Cheap as chips on eBay