Kat's SB-600 Flash questions

[Vladimir Naumoff]

Get a Cactus V2s on eBay $29.99 works 8 out of 10 times inside and 9 out of 10 times outside for one flash works a lot better then with 2 flashes. Watch this on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5hTyVLYNZg
Chip and it works.

[Fortytwo]

The Cactus V4's are a little pricier, but are know to fail almost never. Where as the V2's would let you down sometimes, these don't. And much cheaper than pocketwizards still.

[kat]

Thanks. I've viewd the video and the V4 as well. Hoping I can get one when my hubby goes to vancouver next week.

[EJC]

Hi Kat

I bought Yongnuo CFR-301P radio flash triggers and have been very happy with them. I got 1 transmitter and 3 recievers. When I use the PC cord I have to wrap an elastic band around the cord plug in and unit to get a firm contact. Once I did this they are very reliable. Mounted on the flash hot shoe they are perfect except for one of my flash units which must have a wonky shoe. My flashes are Vivitat 283s. One of the reciever batteries died within a couple weeks but I had left the power switch on. Now I remove the batteries every time I'm done shooting (we really shouldn't leave batteries in for long periods of idlness anyway). They use the CR2 batteries which are about $17 each.

[Fortytwo]

Thanks. I've viewd the video and the V4 as well. Hoping I can get one when my hubby goes to vancouver next week.

You're waiting for him to leave the house so you can go out and buy one behind his back? You women are all the same...

j/k

[kat]

Thanks EJC!

Ha ha Fortytwo!

[F8&Bthere]

What about those little optical slave triggers sometimes called peanuts. I know they restrict position and distance to some degree of the slave flash, and the flash has to be manually set, but for playing around they are only $5 or less on ebay as I recall.

Like this one:
Optical Speedlight Flash Slave Trigger W/Hot Shoe PC - eBay (item 120514028121 end time Jan-09-10 19:20:39 PST)

Too bad about your camera body, Kat. The Nikon CLS is a very nice thing with a SB-600, 800, or 900 (or multiples).

Edit: realizing these peanuts are pretty primitive to use on modern full-featured OEM flashes, but they are so inexpensive. The reason I bought one was that I had a really cheap old flash for my Pentax DSLR and when I read into it, I learned that the sync voltage was too high for my camera body and could cause damage, so I bought this as an easy way to trigger it off camera.