Canon Flash triggers

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Hi everyone,

A friend of mine has a Canon 450D and he is looking to do some strobist work. I was wondering what he needs to make his flashes fire remotely, something reasonably priced as he is not going to be using it for professional work.
He will be buying 2 canon flashes to go with it.

Many thanks,

Kardo
 
You need a master flash unit to control remote guns with full auto-TTL exposure control. Canon 580EXII doubles as a flash and master unit, as do the top-end models from Sigma, Nissin, Metz etc. Canon ST-E2 is a master-only controller, but cheaper.

You only need one master and the other guns can be just slaves. Just about every gun you can buy these days operates as a slave, even the cheapest ones. If you link up with a long dedicated cord, you can do just about anything.

Auto-TTL uses an optical triggering system. Works fine indoors, and outside too if it's not too bright. Using a long cord you can keep the master-to-slave distance down and get reliable firing in anything but bright sun.

For reliable firing anywhere anytime, radio triggers are the way to go but these are manual exposure only unless you spend a fortune on Pocket Wizards. Yongnuo RF-602 are good and cheap :thumbs:
 
The 580 can also act as a master but take no part in the actual exposure ther than firing the slaves, so you can have a slave only picture, which can be off camera (slaves can be another 580 or 430, or come to that second hand 550/420 if money's tight).
Indoor or outdoor?
 
MatBin said:
The 580 can also act as a master but take no part in the actual exposure ther than firing the slaves, so you can have a slave only picture, which can be off camera (slaves can be another 580 or 430, or come to that second hand 550/420 if money's tight).
Indoor or outdoor?
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Well both indoors and outdoors. he is actually looking for something cheap like a radio trigger that can be put on the hot shoe and some receivers for the flashes.
 
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