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 Post subject: Yongnuo's back again
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For all you trigger happy dudes and gals...the RF-603 is shipping

Transceiver design sounds good
1/320 sync speed sounds good
incompatibility with 602's sounds bad
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Nice! I like that its a transceiver so that You can stick a flash on top of it. What I wonder is if the flash on top of the one you are using as the transmitter has to be in manual or if you can use it in TTL.

edit: TTL Passthrough, sweet!

http://www.lightingrumours.com/yongnuo-rf-603-wireless-transceiver-system-858
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Oh, just realized, because they are all transceivers, they all have hot shoes. No thread to screw them into light stands. This is a huge pain cause you have to ensure you use a hotshoe adapter that holds them tight without a lock mechanism.
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Oh, just realized, because they are all transceivers, they all have hot shoes. No thread to screw them into light stands. This is a huge pain cause you have to ensure you use a hotshoe adapter that holds them tight without a lock mechanism.


Really? That would suck, well you can still use them with swivels
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BaRTiMuS wrote:
Oh, just realized, because they are all transceivers, they all have hot shoes. No thread to screw them into light stands. This is a huge pain cause you have to ensure you use a hotshoe adapter that holds them tight without a lock mechanism.


I never use those threads anyway. I use a swivel or my bigger strobes. Without swivels I lose brollies and tilt. So no big deal as far as I am concerned. lack of compatibility with the 602 that sucks.
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My 602s do what I need them to do so no upgrading for me.
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the threads would be useful in case you wanted to put these on a softbox bracket or something. Looks like 602's are staying
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PotatoEYE wrote:
the threads would be useful in case you wanted to put these on a softbox bracket or something. Looks like 602's are staying


$6 fix

http://www.adorama.com/SVSHOE.html

I have a few that cam with my swivel. I do agree with James on this though...

Have you seen the RF-601??

http://cgi.ebay.com/RF-601-2-4GHz-Wirel ... 35ac54d539

the trigger does not have a PC port any more.
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didn't even know the 601's existed. Are these jack connectors for studio strobes?
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PotatoEYE wrote:
didn't even know the 601's existed. Are these jack connectors for studio strobes?


YUP useless in my mind. The 602 is the better solution...Unless you have a studio and the lights are always up I guess. But not for me.
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