Wein Peanut compatibility?

[jblaschke]

Okay, so I'm about to order a couple of Wein Peanuts and hot shoe adapters for a couple of strobes I have, and see that some folks are having compatibility issues, and that there's even a "digital" version available for Nikons, etc.

I'm intending to use these on an older, film-era Star-D SDG480 (Nikon mount) and an Achiever 260AF (Canon mount). Obviously I'm never going to use either of these on my XTi, and I don't *think* the compatibility issues raised various places on the web are relevant to these older strobes, but I wanted to double check with the brain trust here before I spent any money on these things. Thanks!

[fxk]

Most folks have problems with slaves (in general) because of ETTL preflashing. Current flash technology (Canon, Nikon, and others) use a small power "pre-flash" to meter the scene through the lens for the flash exposure immediately prior to the "exposure" flash, the power of which was varied according to the pre-flash information. There can be more than one pre-flash in some flash systems. For example, the Canon 580EX uses multiple pre-flashes when it is the ETTL master to communicate with the ETTL slave flashes.

Depending on what the master flash is that you wish to trigger your slaves with (i.e., the built-in flash on the XTi), if the master flash is not in manual mode, the preflash will pre-trigger the standard slaves, and when the full flash on camera happens, the slaves will have noting else to give.

The "digital" slaves get around this by their ability to ignore one or more pre-flashes and trigger only on the main flash from the master.

If you run the master flash from the PC port, then there is no ETTL, and no preflash to worry about, and the standard peanut slave should work just fine.

[gasrocks]

Boy, thought I just discovered a new lens called the Peanut.

[fxk]

Boy, thought I just discovered a new lens called the Peanut.

LOL! And you've been afound long enough to know better!