Flash Triggers

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What flash triggers do you use?

With my digital kit I have the YongNuo RF-603 (for Nikon), but because of the way the pins are laid out, it doesn't support being fired from a non-TTL Nikon camera - so it won't fire from a standard hotshoe, rather annoyingly. That is something very poorly documented, but it's true.

So what flash triggers are you using with your film cameras?
 
You might be able to do a small mod to make it work just from the central contact of a hot shoe or from an X sync.

Read the first two comments at the end of this review: http://makingitasapro.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/improving-yongnuo-rf-603-radio-flash.html

the only thing needed to make an RF-603*C* (probably nearly identical to my RF-603n) work as a transmitter on an ordinary single-contact hot shoe, is to solder a 120000 ohm resister between the RF-603C's Vin contact and its J6 terminal, all inside the case, to provide the j6 contact with the "TTL wakeup signal".
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It seems like it uses one of the hotshoe signals to tell it to be a transmitter instead of its default receiver status when it is not on a camera's hotshoe. If your camera does not provide that signal then this mod should sort it out but it would mean that the modified unit would only ever work as a transmitter. However, that shouldn't be a problem as you always need one of them to be a transmitter.

Here is a video of the modification: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iiy4zGEt5xU

Jump to about six minutes into the video.


Steve.
 
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Steve Smith said:
You might be able to do a small mod to make it work just from the central contact of a hot shoe or from an X sync.

Read the first to comments at the end of this review: http://makingitasapro.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/improving-yongnuo-rf-603-radio-flash.html
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Ah! I've been trying to find something like that this morning, cheers.

Having had a look, it sounds a bit more messy than I'd like to do personally - and buy the time I purchase a soldering iron, some decent solder and the resistor, I could probably buy another set of triggers :bonk:
 
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I don't know if you replied after I modified my post but watch the video from about six minutes. That is very easy to do. If you can't do it you probably know someone with a soldering iron who can.

As a last resort, if you want to post it to me, I will do it for you.


Steve.
 
That looks pretty simple - and I can solder - I just don't own a soldering iron, and I'm pretty sure I don't know anyone who does (!).

You may have a PM coming your way...
 
Skyports work on my Bronica.
 
Thanks. I was looking at the PT-04 triggers, they look like a no nonsense way to do it. I've sent one of my triggers off to Steve to very kindly modify so it always acts as a transmitter, which should do the trick :)

I've wanted to do more interesting portrait work for a long time and hopefully this will be my stepping stone.
 
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