I love buying stuff from catalogs or online, it just brings packages to your door that you can open just like Christmas! This time the package was a set of Paul C Buff Cybersyncs! These are essential for my work since I cant afford to have PC cable all around, or ETTL cord, or the shady doing of IR systems outdoors. These things are solid! They work around 400 feet though walls and are much smaller than the competition from Pocket Wizard or Radiopopper!
There are cheaper alternatives out there from Chinese companies, but that is one of the factors I dont buy them and that is they are communist product. The Cybersyncs are also made in the USA and have top notch customer service and are a robust design. Compared to these cheaper triggers normally sold though international sellers on ebay of these Chinese imitations, they are a clear winner for all the above besides price. Again like I have said to many people, when you buy product for your camera, really this isn't a cheap line of work or hobby, in the long run these probably will last longer, but just for me, I love this country so why not support it and buy American made products? Anyway enough of this Nationalism! PHOTOGRAPHY!
These triggers don't support ETTL, and some have said, "Isn't that a bad thing?" NO WAY! When you do work like what I do, its really best to just have your flashes on manual and set them the way you want because you need to be in control, not your camera. Sure your camera can maybe figure it out from time to time, or more often if you spend big dollars on the top shelf camera, but it isn't needed. All you need is a camera that has a hotshoe or pc port to trigger flash's off camera,that has manual control, along with flashes with manual control and you can take consistent BRILLIANT shots once you know the basics. With these radio triggers triggers it gets them firing with no wires making things simple and awesome once you get the theories down.
To use these is pretty darn simple. For these guys, all you do is hook up the headphone jack to the pc port of your flash. If you camera does not have one, you need a custom PC to Hot shoe Adapter to make it happen. These Cybersyncs are also battery powered as they do have AC powered units for use with studio strobes and they last over 200 hours with alkaline batteries. So you kinda figure, i will be using Nimh batteries that last WAYYYYY longer, because heck, im lazy to change them. Once that is done, put the transmitter on, and you are pretty much ready to fire that flash on manual whenever you hit the shutter button!
More info will come to this entry later when I get the rest of the gear in! Hope you like the part one installment to these babies!
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