This may be what you want, Flash Wizard II:
http://www.lpadesign.com/products/fw2/index.html
It's expensive, but you may be able to rent one.
Paul Farrar
At 11:01 AM 7/24/99 +0000, you wrote:
>I'd like to run a two camera setup for an upcoming shoot, and had an
>idea about how to do it, but now i'm wondering if it will work at
>all.
>
>It's a studio shoot, so I'll be running strobes. I thought I would
>set one body on a tripod, with a winder 2 on continous (side
>note--why does this only work on continuous?) and a slave sent to the
>mini-pin input on the winder. The body that I'm handholding would
>have an IR strobe. When I release the shutter of the handheld, it
>triggers the main strobe, which triggers the slaved body.
>
>Then I started worrying. The flash is at longest 1/250 second (and
>may be quite a bit shorter depending on setting). When the strobe
>triggers the second body and its shutter opens, the strobe light is
>extinguished.
>
>Then I thought I would get clever and use a strobe on the main body
>that would trigger directly the slave on the second body. My theory
>was that would open the second shutter at the same time the main
>strobe would fire. Then I started worrying about that too. Since
>light moves much faster than mechanics, I think this too will yield
>black pictures, since the shutter will still open too late.
>
>Am I right? Is there a way to do this simply?
>
>thanks....
>
>matt
>
>
>Matt Haber
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>http://www.matthaber.com
>
>
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