Canon Speedlite 430ex Ii Wireless
Help with flashes and triggers?

Ok, doing a bit of research for my photography course school photography If you want to take fluids – As the fall of water droplets and popping water balloons, what kind of configuration I: when I'm using: a Canon EOS 550D with a Canon Speedlite 430EX II Flash I do not understand is about to fire the flash and wireless What is the difference between wireless, IR, and radio – which is best for me? Any advice? Thanks

There is a video on how to pull the drops of water here; http://strobist.blogspot.com/2009/05/how-to-photograph-water-drops-with-one.html In fact, the Strobist blog site is THE place to go for light camera information; http://strobist.blogspot.com/2006/03/lighting-101.html there is also a Flickr group members; http://www.flickr.com/groups/strobist/ wi-fi only means there is no physical connection between the camera and external flash. Wireless can be a simple optical trigger (firing an external flash for the same "see" the camera flash fire) or may be more complex as the Nikon CLS system, which the dosage information and output power is also transmitted to the flash through an IR signal. Your Canon can do this but need an additional Canon Transmitter ST-E2 if you want TTL flash metering (ie, the output power is adjusted by the camera based on light metering the scene). An alternative way Wireless technology is radio transmitters shot – they do not have to be expensive! Because we work in a radio signal and visual (optical) signal are much more reliable and does not need "line of sight" between the transmitter and the flash unit. Top of the range are Pocket Wizards. Several other brands as Cybersyncs (Paul trigger Buffs) and Skyports (Elinchroms version) are quite expensive. However, very hot right now with the community are Yongnuo Strobist RF-602 triggers. These operate at a frequency of 2.4 GHz (which is much less prone to interference than the 433 MHz triggers, which get a lot of misfires with Canon). A set of triggers (+ cost of a transmitter receiver 27 pounds). You can buy additional receivers as you add flashes when necessary. Yongnuo also make an excellent flash manually adjustable (460-II) for £ 41. These triggers are very reliable and have great variety (80 +). Your flash drive is also well built and reliable. If you buy RF-602, you will be able to start your 430EXII and YN-460-II, with his shoe Canon. The disadvantage of using a radio trigger is you will not have TTL metering will automatically trigger radio forms a Canon, but that's not a problem. Its much better to learn to adjust your flash output manually as TTL can be unreliable and unreproducible. Edit: no need to fancy laser trigger or rapid fire speed stop motion. If we look at link throw drops of water, you get a drop that falls on a regular interval manually release the shutter at the right time – with practice you can get the calendar down a treat! It costs nothing to shoot digital with a lot of pictures and choose the best. You have to focus manually where the drops fall well and have been deactivated AF and the AF delay taken into account. Example: This picture was taken with the drops stable at around one per second or less; http://www.flickr.com/photos/deepbluephotography / 3706630773/in/set-72157622773520191 / With the flash at 1 / 16 (more than enough) the recycle time was negligible.

Canon Speedlite 430ex Ii Wireless

Is a Speedlite 430EX II connected to a Canon Rebel XSI without a slave?

I have a Canon Speedlite 430EX II and learned they could log in wireless mobile transmitter or slave or something like that. Is it true? and so how can I connect?

Hey, I do not know You heard that, but it is not possible. The 7D has this option, all other EOS cameras do not. However, just look on eBay or Jianisi DealExtreme / PT-04TM Yongnuo, it costs $ 30 and it works very well, and I have for my 430EX II.

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