Lencarta Safari and Pocketwizards

The standard plus II or new III will work with the safari. The Flex will work also but only in basic trigger mode so unless you have an investment in speedlights, the plus II or III 's are the obvious option.
 
cableliquid said:
I have two speed lights as well that i was thinking if i could use them swell i would. does hyper sync work with the PW's and lencarta?
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I'm afraid I will have to defer to the Lencarta guys that hang out around here on that. I have no idea. Sorry.

Try sending a PM to Garry Edwards to get his advice. He is a Lencarta rep I think. He has a rep for being very helpful.
 
You might be able to tease a little bit of a faster sync speed out of hypersync, but probably not much. Lot of money to go to 1/320th.

Btw, check out the calumet atlas triggers, order code 'cf0075twinkit' - they're basically pocketwizard plus 2s with a hot shoe on. Get a calumet student discount card and you get 20% off too
 
I would have replied earlier but I've been away for a week, playing with lights and things at Focus.

Yes, any PW will work as long as the connection terminates as a 3.5mm jack socket.

One customer bought the AC3 controller and told me that he can shoot with no problems up to 1/8000th sec on his Canon 1D Mk4, although there is 'something weird' happening between 1/4000th and 1/6000th second on that camera. He also told me that when he tried it on his 5D Mk11, the curtain becomes visible at 1/750th. I don't understand this, but then I'm a Nikon user so I'm not used to camera problems :exit:

He also sent me example shots. As expected, there is some uneveness of exposure as the shutter speed increases, and of course a lot of effective light loss.
 
Garry Edwards said:
I would have replied earlier but I've been away for a week, playing with lights and things at Focus.

Yes, any PW will work as long as the connection terminates as a 3.5mm jack socket.

One customer bought the AC3 controller and told me that he can shoot with no problems up to 1/8000th sec on his Canon 1D Mk4, although there is 'something weird' happening between 1/4000th and 1/6000th second on that camera. He also told me that when he tried it on his 5D Mk11, the curtain becomes visible at 1/750th. I don't understand this, but then I'm a Nikon user so I'm not used to camera problems :exit:

He also sent me example shots. As expected, there is some uneveness of exposure as the shutter speed increases, and of course a lot of effective light loss.
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You can do all sorts of things with those PW Mini/Flex triggers, and even more if you go into the custom download firmware tweaks to sync timing. It gets very complicated though, depending on different makes and models of camera, and much of it isn't very useful.

There are two kinds of hypersync - peak-hypersync which pushes the x-sync speed up by 0.3 or 0.6 stops (handy with hot-shoe guns, doesn't seem to work as well with studio heads) and tail-hypersync that can run at any shutter speed above normal x-sync.

Problem with that is you immediately lose about four stops of brightness, that gets progressively worse with every stop faster speed, and exposure is uneven by about three stops from top to bottom of the frame. Apart from that, it's great ;)

You don't even need a PW to do tail-hypersync. If you have a regular gun with high speed sync or FP sync capability, just switch that on, at minimum power or just enough to trigger the studio head's optical slave, and it will fire right at the beginning of the first curtain opening, instead of at the end, so you capture the tail of the flash as it fades while the shutter travels - hence the uneven exposure.
 
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