Hi Neil
Are you able to adivse me please?
I have started shooting a few weddings/events and so far have stuck mainly to the flash on camera and bounced it, or else shot through a brolly nearby with STE2. I've used ETTL with all of this, but I do want manual control.
I am now looking to go wireless with my Canon system ( 580EXII, 580EX, 430EXII, ad STE2) I know that things have moved on a bit technologically with flash triggers since publication, of your last book so I thought I'd ask for your thoughts.
In particular I'm wondering whether to go with a "dumb trigger" solution like the Cybersync, or a more fancy one which allows for ETTL as well as manual. If I go with Cybersync I'm stuck with max sync speed and with my 5Dmk2 at the end of a wireless connection that might only be around 1/125s. Is this really enough? I know HSS has its problems but feel it might be beneficial to have a system which allows for this. What are your views?
If I go for a more highly specced system I'm torn between the Radio Poppers or the Pocket Wizards. The latter would worry me due to my using 580s and also I have heard a lot of reports of PWs frying these units. The whole thing seems a bit of a no-go for me!
That leaves Radio Poppers. Would you recommend them for my purposes. They are expensive but if they did the job I wanted I'd happily pay. The only issue is that I'd either have to lose a flash to sit it on my camera or use my STE2. The latter seems fine and I believe I could still use the flashes on manual when I wanted ( maybe most of the time?) as long as I made adjustments locally. This doesn't seem too much of a sacrifice to me.
Anyway these are my thoughts. I'd really welcome your advice on this and am grateful for your timein reading.
Comments
Then it's either the Radio Poppers or new PocketWizards.
Now, as far as I know, you can't set the flash to be manual from the ST-E2 ... it only allows TTL flash. (If I'm wrong, will someone correct me please.)
All a bit of a gamble it seems
The simplest and most reliable system then would be the Radio-Poppers