syncing 430 and 580 with 7d

I've recently bought a 580 exII to go with my 430 exII for shooting closeup sport shots in the dusk and sunset. I basically want to be able to get lots of light, one from each side of the camera. What's the best way to sync the flashes together, i've had a nightmare before buying the wrong pocket wizard for the job and sending it back.

The 7d needs to be shooting at about 1/800 sec so in high speed sync. Can i basically control everything with the 580 or do i need specific pocket wizards?

Thanks in advance, I find anything flashy very hard to get from the manuals!

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Go with Pocketwizard MiniTT1 and FlexTT5. You can get the TT1 to be on your camera and get two TT5s for each OCF and you are good to go with high speed sync.

I would do some research on the Pocket Wizard Flex/580exII problems before going with this option. They work great for some and blow up the flash for others.

If you have no aversion to using Canon's optical wireless system, you can wire the 580 as master with a long E-TTL cord and control both from the camera's menu. And you get HSS, which isn't possible using the 7D's popup. If the flashes are reasonably close together, there should be no problem with line-of-sight communication.

At 1/800 second and two hot shoe flashes, you're going to have to be really close to the action to get much light at all.

f/4.5 at 1/800, ISO 100, FEC +2. Sky metered at -1. Both flashes about 6 feet from Mr. Tree. And the setup was good for one shot every 4 seconds due to capacitor recharge time on the 580.

The 430 was 10 feet from the 580 master (580 on an E-TTL cord). No difficulty syncing the 430 from the 580 using Canon wireless. The Sun is in the frame bottom center.

Totally agreed. When I had and used the flex/mini, I used the 430EXII on the flex instead of 580EXII since there was no interference with 430EXII.