Them what shoots only manual don't have to worry about TTL flash support
for their cameras. You can buy a really good incident/flash meter for
much less than this radiopopper and the meter will always do a much
better and more accurate job for you. I like the Sekonic L-358 because
it has a reasonable price and also does ambient/flash ratios which gives
you perfect control over fill flash. Fill flash is right when the meter
reads 20-30% flash vs ambient. Mine also has the built-in Pocket Wizard
transmitter but I don't use it since I won't pay the freight for a
Pocket Wizard. You can achieve the same result by attaching a yabe
transmitter to the PC cable connection on the meter.
<http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/221078-REG/Sekonic_401358_L_358_Flash_Master_Meter.html>
The cheap yabe transmitters are certainly more prone to failure than a
better quality piece of gear but any piece of gear can fail and so you
should have backup... especially if the backup is cheap like the yabe
transmitters. I have 5 of them. I typically don't use more than two at
a time although I have used as many as four at once for background light
in a really large reception hall. Normally it only takes one or two
since the other strobes are usually close enough that they can be
triggered by their built-in optical slaves (Alien Bees). I also use 2-4
T-32's with umbrellas on light stands for portability outside. Then I
need two receivers if I'm using two light stands.
Chuck Norcutt
usher99@xxxxxxx wrote:
> More news available. It supports high speed synch but no OLY support
> apparent. :-(
>
> My yabe radioslave transmitter was DOA in Pittsburgh. I even had
> checked it prior to departure. Magic trigger seller dutifully honored
> the warranty
> and a replacement should be here any day.
> Mike
>
>
>
> http://radiopopper.com/pdf/radiopopper_news_01.pdf
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