wireless or cable trigger?

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Hi all,

I have looked into the Elinchrom D-lites 2 head kit and think it is probably a good investment. I would, however, like to clear one or two queries up before I buy. Am I right in saying that the supplied sync cable with the D-lites just plugs straight into the camera as a trigger release (I have a Canon 20D) and there is a 2nd cable to slave the 2nd head with. Or, do I have to buy a seperate trigger cable? If so, is it worth investing in a radio trigger or are they much more expensive than a cable?

Also, is it worth me investing in a light meter so I can take readings from where the subject sits rather than using the reflected light from the on board camera meter? If so, are there any cheap but good models anyone can recommend. Thank you kindly for any advice people.

Paul
 
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My Interfits came with a cable from camera to first strobe. Second strobe is triggered from the first strobe (have optical sensor on the back)

The cable is a bit of a pain so I bought some wireless triggers on Ebay. Means I'm not tethered.

A lightmeter is a good idea. Sekonic L-308 is good value and fairly cheap. I have a L-358.

I use this with the sync cable plugged into one flash head, and the other has my camera wireless trigger plugged into it.
 
Thanks Andrew, I will check out the Sekonic L-308 and maybe a wireless trigger on Ebay.

Cheers chap

Paul
 
Hi I brought the d-lites a couple of weeks ago, they do come with 2 sync cables, but personally I brought the Elinchrom skyport triggers as well,off the top of my head about £120 and they are brilliant, the receiver is rechargeable and the transmitter takes one button battery. The other added advantage of wireless triggers is that you or anyone else will not fall over the sync cable, I have seen this done in the past on many occasions and at £70 for the flash tubes this can get expensive.
I also brought the Sekonic L-308 light meter, I just felt i was easier to set the lighting up from this than trying to do it from the histogram, as you can set the light ratio up a lot easier between the 2 heads.
As Andrew said the skyport fires one head and the built in slave fires the second head.
 
Thanks for the extra comments Dave...will take that on board but I don't think I can stretch to wireless at this stage.
 
for my flash trigger I use a tiny flash gun, a jessops one that doesn't do the ETTL preflash thing that the canon body's do.
the flash is covered by a high tech diffuser called paper. this cuts the flash down so it doesn't interfere with the image, but is enough to set the slaves off.
just my 2p..
 
Do the D-Lites support IR?

My interfit does, and with the IR sender onto the hotshoe it's a piece of .... !

I was too weary when I started lighting about sync cables and the possibility of killing my camera (red stories about polarity / voltage problems) so went with the IR. At least i'm not restricted to where I can go now.
 
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