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Anyone know if you can wirelessly fire a Yongnuo YN468 ii & Canon 430 ii together with a Canon 7D? I'm hoping to try some studio work. I do have a pair of Yongnuo triggers and can buy another if required.
 
landwomble said:
The trigger'll work on any flash so you should be able to..
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yeah but I guess I would need three triggers? One on camera and then the other two on the speedlites?
 
I use YN 602s. You have a trigger and a receiver or two. The trigger can either sit on the camera hotshoe and fire the remote triggers when the camera shutter goes off, or you can hand hold it and fire them. With the right cable this can also be a remote shutter release.
The 603s are tranceivers and so can all act as both recievers and triggers.
The 622s are the same but if you have an E-TTL flash they will use E-TTL as well.

If you go on ebay and look for 1x YN 602 transmitter and 2x recievers then you'll be able to get them all for around £35 I'd guess.

Some YN flashes have the wireless receiver built in - I have 2x YN 560 mkIII flashes for this reason. No E-TTL but both will fire using just the 602 trigger in the camera hotshoe. The flashes are about £45 delivered which is a bit of a bargain!
 
The YN468 will fire as a slave when it detects the 430


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which triggers? Just in case there's more you can do, if you have YN622's I'd recommend another (or 2 so you have a spare) and you can control all the flashes from the camera. That's not firing - that's controlling power levels. Manual or ETTL.
 
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I fire a Canon 560 EXII and a Yongnuo 460 II from my 7d using the Canon optical mode, 'ish'. The 460 is a dumb flash.

The 580 EX II is set to be a slave on channel 1. The 460 is set to S1, I have to select the power when I put the flash down. The 7d is then set to master mode/wireless flash. I can choose the settings for the 560.
This means that the 560 is fully controllable from the camera.
The YN 460 will see the pre-flash, and wait (1x the length of the pre-flash I belive, or something like that) and then flash at the same time as the other flashes (whether the 560 or the main camera flashes or not).
i.e. with this setup, I can disable the camera flash from being in the picture, I can disable the 560 flash from being in the picture, but the YN flash will always be in the picture.
I originally bought a really cheap RF trigger (when I had my 400d, which couldn't do optical), it fell apart quite quickly. If you get an RF trigger, go for a decent one (not a no-name brand, YN should be OK I would think).

However, I am now at the stage where I wish I could do more. The YN 460 is not TTL, and I find the lack of any RF trigger a little anoying. The recylce times on the flashes are great, but sometimes in a bright room it is difficult to get them to trigger.

The 'problem' with adding an RF trigger now, is that I would loose the ability to use the 7d onboard flash, which is quite useful, if just for a 'fill in' light to get rid of some of the bags under the eyes sometimes.
 
Obversely I would like to achieve this without buying anything else unless I need too. The pair of triggers Ive got are the Yongnuo RF-603 will have a play later today after those suggestions above-thanks!
 
Upgraded to the 5D3 now quite a spur of the moment purchase! But anyway if anyone can advise if the above is possible on the 5D3 that would be great!
 
Same as before, trigger on camera, rx on 430 in manual mode, yongnuo set to optical slave.
 
Thanks Phil I did try that and it occasionally worked...I think my Youngun flash might be faulty which is annoying :(
 
Be awRe of all the different slave settings on the YN flash, it can get confusing.
 
Phil V said:
Be awRe of all the different slave settings on the YN flash, it can get confusing.
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Cheers Paul, I will take a look I think there are two slave modes
 
I find that mine is most likely to work on S1. However, your results might vary (I am using the 7d). It occasionally works on S2.
 
coldpenguin said:
I find that mine is most likely to work on S1. However, your results might vary (I am using the 7d). It occasionally works on S2.
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Do you us the YN468ii and Canon 430ii ?
 
Canon 580 EXII, and the YN 430 II

From what I read the Canon 430 EXII is meant to work (almost, apart from commander mode) the same as the 580 EXII
From the manuals I have read on the YNs, the S1 should work the same on every model.
 
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