I bought myself a set of 4 RadioPopper PX's (1 transmitter, 3 receivers) for my Canon Flash system. I've been putting them to use for all my off camera flash shooting and thought I'd give you a quicky review so far. I mounted the transmitter onto my Canon ST-2 and the receivers onto my Canon 580EX's. Gotta tell ya, I'm really liking these a whole bunch, I keep all the functionality of the Canon wireless flash system (e.g., High-speed sync, channels,groups, flash levels, .....) without worrying about maintaining line-of-sight between the ST-2 and the strobes. All of my work has been relatively close so far, but other reviews I've seen say these units are good out to beyond 100 feet. For this reason, I bought the RadioPoppers over the Pocket Wizard new MiniTT1™ and FlexTT5™ radio slave system just released for the Canon strobes, and so far, I haven't been disappointed. Only real negatives I can offer so far are the price (~$250 each) and the somewhat clunky mounting setup which seems to work fine so far, the positives significantly out weigh the negatives. Also for you Nikon shooters, the RadioPopper PX's are designed to work just the same, keeping the functionality of the strobe system. Well that's it for now, let you all know more later.
>>> David Gralian http://www.davidgralian.com/ and www.davidgralian.com/blog <<<
Monday, May 11, 2009
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Thanks Dave - this could be a good comparison. I'm planning on getting the Mini and Flex to go with my existing PW collection so we can compare notes. Fred
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ReplyDeletecan the minitti & FlexTTf trigger the old PW's
if so that would be great. Thanks David for the feedback on the poppers
Yes they can control the older PW, but keep in mind that it's only in manual mode....
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