IMG_7039_RemoteKitchen

[inahandbasket]

IMG_7039_RemoteKitchen
Originally uploaded by rstrohmh.

I picked up a remote flash trigger off ebay for about $25 shipped from Hong Kong. It's basically a really cheap radio transmitter and receiver with a couple of dip switches and 2 AAA batteries. You clip the transmitter onto your hotshoe and the receiver to your flash, and voila! Wireless flash triggering up to 30 meters away!

I really want a set of pocket wizards which will do ETTL etc. wirelessly instead of just dumb triggering, but at 1/10th the price?
Yes. I think this will do nicely.

Now that i know it'll work I just might pick up a second receiver for my old Sunpak flash so that I can trigger two at once. Double the pleasure, double the fun!
(Naphotomo08 is up to 16. woot!)

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[inahandbasket]

is way fun, and totally cheap. I was toying with saving up for pocket wizards or something, but I think that $300 can go towards a nice lens instead. Maybe a 10-22... [/drool]

Getting my flash to work with it necessitated putting the flash into only one of its modes, a mode I've never used before. So I need to dig out the manual for my Sigma flash and do some reading.