Interfit titans with micro four thirds

[daz103]

I am swapping from Nikon to micro four thirds and would like to carry on using my sb900s. I have a set of pocket wizard flex system which I will sell to fund purchase of another system. I was thinking that the Titan pros seem to be the best value for money and as they are supposed to be universal I assume they work, but I was wondering if anyone knows for sure if they work on micro four thirds cameras?

 

[HoppyUK]

I am swapping from Nikon to micro four thirds and would like to carry on using my sb900s. I have a set of pocket wizard flex system which I will sell to fund purchase of another system. I was thinking that the Titan pros seem to be the best value for money and as they are supposed to be universal I assume they work, but I was wondering if anyone knows for sure if they work on micro four thirds cameras?

Pretty much any trigger will work with any camera that has a hot-shoe or pc socket, firing off the central pin. Brand specific ones just have the addition of other contacts for things like remote wake-up.

Main benefit of the Titans is they use the Pocket Wizard frequency and so are compatible with PWs, but cheaper. Otherwise they're quite big and expensive for a basic trigger. Look at Godox, FlashWave, or Cactus - anything using just the central firing pin.

You're going to shoot weddings and commercial on 4/3rds?

 

[daz103]

Indeed i am. I have been doing lots of journalism stuff and most of my recent work has been done with a gx1. I have made the cost of the camera back in one month from images taken with it so I'm more than happy with the system.

its a little risky with weddings, but I've noticed that if the exposure is correct then the results from the gx1 match the output from the d3. The omd is a more capable camera, so i am not overly concerned. It just means paying more attention with getting right exposures in camera, which is the way it should be done anyway ;-).

 

[HoppyUK]

Indeed i am. I have been doing lots of journalism stuff and most of my recent work has been done with a gx1. I have made the cost of the camera back in one month from images taken with it so I'm more than happy with the system.

its a little risky with weddings, but I've noticed that if the exposure is correct then the results from the gx1 match the output from the d3. The omd is a more capable camera, so i am not overly concerned. It just means paying more attention with getting right exposures in camera, which is the way it should be done anyway ;-).

Well good luck with that. Most wedding photographers aspire to full frame rather than moving smaller - better ISO performance and more shallow DoF amongst other things.

But quality of the system aside, it's easier to be taken more seriously, with a more serious camera, when charging more serious fees.

 

[daz103]

Well good luck with that. Most wedding photographers aspire to full frame rather than moving smaller - better ISO performance and more shallow DoF amongst other things.

But quality of the system aside, it's easier to be taken more seriously, with a more serious camera, when charging more serious fees.

Depends really, I don't do wedding photography full time it's just a side earner to other parts of my business. So I made the decision that the micro four thirds would be better suited to this.

I don't use my camera to "look serious" I use it to capture images. Not once in the last three years, in the 30 or so weddings I have has anyone even seen my equipment before booking me. I can't even remember any client that's booked me ever seeing my equipment first. I certainly haven't had repeat bookings based on my equipment. The images speak for themselves. Only photographers really care about the equipment.

 

[HoppyUK]

Depends really, I don't do wedding photography full time it's just a side earner to other parts of my business. So I made the decision that the micro four thirds would be better suited to this.

I don't use my camera to "look serious" I use it to capture images. Not once in the last three years, in the 30 or so weddings I have has anyone even seen my equipment before booking me. I can't even remember any client that's booked me ever seeing my equipment first. I certainly haven't had repeat bookings based on my equipment. The images speak for themselves. Only photographers really care about the equipment.

Well, like I say good luck with that Darren. Whatever works for you and all that, and I'm not trying to pick an argument.

But it has to be said that most professionals use full-frame for good technical reasons that are particularly helpful with weddings these days. The shallow DoF look, and the low light that you commonly have to work with previously mentioned, plus the ability to crop harder.

And I think it's naive to think that the image you portray as a professional is unrelated to the business aspects. Using what is perceived as pro calibre gear is just as important as wearing a suit and looking the part.

 

[Steve T]

Depends really, I don't do wedding photography full time it's just a side earner to other parts of my business. So I made the decision that the micro four thirds would be better suited to this.

I don't use my camera to "look serious" I use it to capture images. Not once in the last three years, in the 30 or so weddings I have has anyone even seen my equipment before booking me. I can't even remember any client that's booked me ever seeing my equipment first. I certainly haven't had repeat bookings based on my equipment. The images speak for themselves. Only photographers really care about the equipment.

I think the brides often care

 

[daz103]

Well, like I say good luck with that Darren. Whatever works for you and all that, and I'm not trying to pick an argument.

But it has to be said that most professionals use full-frame for good technical reasons that are particularly helpful with weddings these days. The shallow DoF look, and the low light that you commonly have to work with previously mentioned, plus the ability to crop harder.

And I think it's naive to think that the image you portray as a professional is unrelated to the business aspects. Using what is perceived as pro calibre gear is just as important as wearing a suit and looking the part.

I don't think I ever said that professional image is not related to business aspects, however I just don't think the gear you use has that big a bearing on it in reality. Acting professional, dressing smartly and producing the results is the important thing. Otherwise we would all be using medium format cameras.

I think the idea of full frame is a misconception to a certain degree, the current range of micro four thirds cameras are showing similar image quality and iso performance to high end aps-c cameras and similar if not better than some older generation full frame cameras. I'm not denying that a D4 or 5dmk3 would perform better, but then they also cost much more money. The Omd produces results similar to my D3 and better results than a classic 5d.

I haven't taken this decision lightly, but at the end of the day I very rarely pushed my D3 higher than ISO 2000 and I can the same results on an OMD. A friend of mine who works for the Guardian, the financial times etc has ditched his canon 5D outfit for and Omd kit and he hasn't lost any work.