vivitar 383 to highspeed sync?

hey there
I have two vivitar 383s. little confused if I can get these to work in high speed over 1/200th. I have cheap cowboystudio trigger and receivers. if I ditch these and upgrade to some pocket wizards will they let me shoot high speed? I'm using a t1i by the way.

my second option is keeping the triggers and receivers and get a legit canon speed light. and use the vivitar 383s as slaves. they should still work at high speeds as a slave, correct?

any help, links, etc great appreciated.

Looking at the 383's specs, I don't think it supports focal plane or high speed sync either on-camera or as a slave.

ohhbekay wrote in post #14591663
my second option is keeping the triggers and receivers and get a legit canon speed light. and use the vivitar 383s as slaves. they should still work at high speeds as a slave, correct?

No.

The only thing that can do "high speed sync" (actually a series of very rapid pulses of light which emulate natural constantly-on light over a long enough duration - minimum 1/200 second) is a Canon Speedlite or possibly a clone that's designed to emulate Canon's feature. The 383s cannot do "high speed sync" either as main or slaves.

ah thank you. I guess thats why when I put it on camera I still cannot adjust it in the flash settings to high speed.

I didnt know thats how the canon speedlights worked.