EBAY SLAVE FLASH

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i know the ebay triggers are a poplar thing at moment but just wondered if anyone has bought and used the slave flash box that alot of company's are selling.i have a canon 430ez i whant to use as bounce flash behind the subject then use the built in flash to light the face.some of the emails i have received say they will fit some say it may miss fire some times so not sure whether to bother getting one,thanks
 
Hi Photo Sniper I'll point you to a post i just made on another thread here http://biSPAM/9zHJgC.

You get what you pay for if you want some thing you can rely on I would get this type http://biSPAM/cPB4EY of optical slave
 
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thanks ali i think i might have to get a cold shoe adapter aswell so i can put it on a small tripod.do you have many misfires with your slaves and you mention in your post about the rf602's how good are they to say the pt 04 kits on ebay ?:thumbs::wave:
 
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thanks ali i think i might have to get a cold shoe adapter aswell so i can put it on a small tripod.do you have many misfires with your slaves and you mention in your post about the rf602's how good are they to say the pt 04 kits on ebay ?:thumbs::wave:
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Never had any problems with miss fires with the RF-602's. PT-04's, CRT-301's and other really cheap triggers are another story. Miss fires and range are huge problems with the cheaper ones as they use a super cheap 433 Mhz chip and bad programming/error correction/other cheap components. I had one issue where I got about 1 foot range due to using rechargeable batteries, this was because the circuit needed 1.5v where as rechargeable batteries supply 1.2v

The RF-602's use FSK 2.4Ghz this frequency has tighter standards thus devices on this frequency tend to have much better R&D behind them. Thus they work 1000x better. The long and short of it is I can only recommend the RF-602's or pocket wizards. Iv used all 3 and the likes of the pt-04's fall far to short for me. The extra few quid for the rf-602's well worth it IMHO.

If you are in to radio/electronics check out this site for info on FSK 2.4Ghz modules here
 
thanks alistair thats a big help.im not to technical with computers and hardware but you explained it well slave and 602's is is then,cheers duncan:thumbs::wave:
 
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