Canon 6D Sync Speed with Elinchrom Skyport

Hi

I have a the Elinchrom D-Lite RX One set and I am thinking of buying a 6D for Product photography.

Does anybody please know what Sync speed you can get with the 6D and the Elinchrom Skyport trigger?

Thank you,

D.

dcooper wrote in post #16914507
Hi

I have a the Elinchrom D-Lite RX One set and I am thinking of buying a 6D for Product photography.

Does anybody please know what Sync speed you can get with the 6D and the Elinchrom Skyport trigger?

Thank you,

D.

Max is 1/160 to 1/180 on 6d

Sync speed shouldnt matter for product photography, but yes 160 is max on the 6D. The triggers should keep up.

Thank you for your help guys.

My main concern if I buy this camera is the 1/180 Sync speed. Which as you said, should sync with the Skyport at 1/160.
If however, I can only get the perfect Sync at 1/125 (without any dark Shutter curtain areas in the frame) is 1/125 sync enough to block out ambient light in a room with curtains, but isn't pitch black, even if I stop the Aperture down?

The reason why I am asking is because up till now I have only used continuous lighting and window light, and when I bought my strobes, my camera wouldn't fire the Skyport. Which is one of many reasons why I am upgrading my camera.

To test it take a shot without the strobes at the sync speed. Unless you are pumping the ISO for no reason its unlikely that f8 at 1/100 would give much ambient contribution. if it does, then you have other things to work on, namely better curtains.

I have a 6D and use it with Elinchrom Skyport speed/BXRi lights. With the Skyport in standard mode, 1/160th is fine. 1/200th produces minor banding. Speed mode is no help on a 6D.It still produces banding at 1/200th, although less than in standard mode.

To get a 6D to operate at 1/180th I have to use a Canon speedlite. The 6D recognizes the speedlite and will change 1/200th to 1/180th automatically. I have no idea how to select 1/180th otherwise, particularly with 3rd party manual triggers like the Skyport.

With the 5D3, which has a similar-sized sensor, 1/160 is the fastest I can go with the Skyport Eco (and the Cactus V5, for that matter). 1/200 results in banding.

Except for shooting outdoors on a bright day, it's not an issue. ISO100 and 1/160 is enough to kill most indoor ambient unless you're using a very wide aperture.

In a room with curtains, you'll be fine even with a moderately wide aperture.

Thank you for your help guys.

To get to 1/180th with manual triggers, you have to change from 1/3 stop settings to 1/2 stop settings.

btweller wrote in post #16919042
To get to 1/180th with manual triggers, you have to change from 1/3 stop settings to 1/2 stop settings.

Yup.

I see very little banding at 1/200 with my 6D and YN 622 II triggers. No black at all, just a bit of grey that takes up maybe 1/20th of the frame or less.

I was set up with a white board in front of my camera and with my 580 EX II and Nikon SB-28 in Qboxes, so I went ahead and did this little test. The pic pretty much explains it, except that the first of the 1/200 tests was the last shot before the batteries in the on-camera 622 died. When I replaced them the banding was actually a bit worse, weird.

I use one 75 watt incandescent bulb over my desk while shooting and there is a tiny bit of outside light coming in from 3 windows that have cardboard blocking most of the light. I also have a laptop and big external monitor on for tethered shooting. That gives plenty of light to move around and enough to read/write a few notes at my desk. At 1/160 f/8 ISO 200 (proper exposure for the current flash set up) I get pure black on this board. My desk is no more than 8 feet from the board but the light is basically on the same plane as the board (ie, not in front of it)

to tell the truth, even with my overhead fluorescent lights on, the board is still pitch black with those settings.

lighting board "hat trick" !!!

dcooper wrote in post #16914903
If however, I can only get the perfect Sync at 1/125 (without any dark Shutter curtain areas in the frame) is 1/125 sync enough to block out ambient light in a room with curtains, but isn't pitch black, even if I stop the Aperture down?

Did one more test for you, I don't see any sign of light under the shooting conditions outlined above until 1/60 f/1.8 ISO 200

dcooper wrote in post #16914903
Thank you for your help guys.

My main concern if I buy this camera is the 1/180 Sync speed. Which as you said, should sync with the Skyport at 1/160.
If however, I can only get the perfect Sync at 1/125 (without any dark Shutter curtain areas in the frame) is 1/125 sync enough to block out ambient light in a room with curtains, but isn't pitch black, even if I stop the Aperture down?

Once again, easy test for this. Take a shot at 1/125 at your expected aperture in the room you are going to shoot in. Is the frame dark? If yes, no problem. If no, work on better curtains. Twisting yourself in knots over sync speed in the studio is pointless, just drape a blanket over your windows and do your thing.

hes gone wrote in post #16919477
=he's gone;16919477]lighting board "hat trick" !!!

Did one more test for you, I don't see any sign of light under the shooting conditions outlined above until 1/60 f/1.8 ISO 200

Sorry, I haven't gotten back to you till now. Thank you very much for doing the tests for me. I really appreciate it.

Thank you all for your great replies and help.

D.