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Got a tight deadline -- this weekend. Ordering extra receivers online won't make it in time.

Pacific mall maybe?

Cheers,

]{evin

Doubt pmall has them.

There is no Canadian distributor. There's one in the states somewhere, not that helps. I would consider calling vistek to see if they have any pocketwizards to rent out. I know for a fact that headshots has none.

Also try http://filmplus.ca as they also have rentals of radio slaves (direct link to slaves):
http://filmplus.ca/menu_lists/rental_lists/slaves.html

How many do you need?

why not rent them out from people in the forum?

just a note from AB website on those...keeping you informed, not saying it's bad

Trade In/Buy Back program for RFT1 customers

In an effort to maintain our hard-earned customer respect and confidence we are offering a full trade in/buy-back program for all prior buyers of our RFT1 Radio Tripper System. The reason for this is simple:
A well-established Chinese photo lighting manufacturer offered the RFT1 system to us in 2006. After intensive testing and evaluation we began to offer this low cost wireless tripper system to our customers. The first several thousand units performed extremely well and were extremely well received by our customers.
As time progressed, particularly during the past eight months, the design changed without warning or notice and we began to get increasing customer complaints of random firing of receivers, interference from adjacent receivers and short transmitter battery life. After extensively working with the manufacturer we found them unable to determine what changes had occurred in their production or to come up with fixes. Several intense cycles of supposed fixes, promises and continuing problems followed, so we set about to design an American made product that we could confidently offer to our valued customers.

Henry's didn't have, so picked up another pc cord connector, gonna see if I can make do with that...

I emailed that that Alien Bee fellow, thanks for the link. I'm triggering camera strobes, not studio ones, so I'd need to rig some trigger connector... so not likely useful at this point. That buy back thing is interesting.

Thanks for suggestions, y'all!

buy back only if you order cybersyncs 1 sync = 1 buy back, that's what I read on their website

For what it's worth to say (not likely anyone would also try this), but --

You can trigger two flashes with one receiver, with the V4 setup. That's what I used, and it worked well enough.

The receiver has a hot shoe, into which the one flash was. it also has a chord connector, for triggering regular strobe. I used that chord connector to trigger the second flash via pc chord cable. The receiver sent the trigger signal to both hot shoe and chord connector at the same time, so I was able to trigger both flashes with the single receiver.

Again, many other ways to kill this cat, but just fyi.

]{evin

additionally, the other flash can be triggered optically, if it has the capability

My two flashes are 580 EXs. I couldn't get the one to trigger the other reliably. The second wouldn't fire in time.

With the master 580 atop the camera, yes, I can get the slave to fire fine. But, with the 'master' being connected only to the trigger, e.g. no TTL or anything, I seemed unable to get the slave to fire properly.

Thus, I just triggered them manually.

The other gotcha I had to pay attention to is, the flashes would turn off after a few mins. They apparently felt they weren't connected to a camera, and would auto power off. This was also annoying.

However, all that said, it did the job it needed to in a pinch.

Cheers,

]{evin

Function 1 set to 1 to turn off sleep mode on Canon flashes.

There is a flash custom function (C.Fn 1) that you can set to disable flash auto power off...

Sorry this is for the 430ex. The 580ex I believe is Fn 14 set to 1.

I take it one 580 was set to slave and the other for master?

Both sensors of the flashes were aimed at each other?

Were you shooting in full manual mode?

Were you shooting above your camera's max shutter sync speed (not high-speed sync).

Oh were you shooting in bright sunlight?