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Flash Sync off between 40D and external strobes

 
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Feb 08, 2009 13:18 |  #1

I bought a few Britek AS strobes the other week and am finally getting around to playing with them.

I'm a little frustrated.

No matter what I do, I can't get the flashes to show up in the picture when triggering them with the onboard flash. I have tried every shutter speed and I messed with all of the controls in "Flash Control" Nada. Poop.

The flashes trigger, but seems to be before the camera starts to capture. I have 4 strobes, 2 different models... all fire but none show up, so I'd think it's not a defective strobe.

Using a sync cable of course works just fine.

Any suggestions or ideas would be greatly appreciated.


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Feb 08, 2009 13:29 |  #2

ETTL preflash?




  
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Feb 08, 2009 14:47 |  #3

ETTL pre-flash is not allowing you to do that, but if you press FEC first, and then shutter, you'll be able to use external strobes. When you press FEC the pre-flash will fire (will also fire the external strobes) and you have to wait few seconds in order to external strobes become operational again, and then you press shutter.




  
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Feb 08, 2009 14:48 as a reply to  @ oldvultureface's post |  #4

You won't be able to use your onboard flash as a trigger...

The onboard flash cannot effectively be used as a trigger for off camera strobes which use an optical slave such as the Britek and most other studio type strobes.

However, all is not lost, you can trigger your Britek strobes using an inexpensive Yin Yan infrared trigger available on eBay. I have used this trigger for years to fire White Lightning WL-5000, Britek, and other strobes which fire through their built-in optical slave.

The Yin Yan is offered at intervals on eBay but doesn't appear to be offered at this moment. This is the item I am talking about:
http://www.trademe.co.​nz …ers/auction-197772835.htm (external link)

Another alternative would be to use a radio controlled trigger. However, the less expensive radio controlled triggers are not as reliable as the Yin Yan IR model. I have been using mine without fail for several years now and will buy a back-up unit as soon as I see one listed on eBay again.

By the way; you will of course need to use your camera on manual exposure and keep the shutter speed at 1/60 second. Although, you can sync hotshoe flashes at up to 1/250 second, you need to shoot at 1/60 second for studio strobes. This is no problem since the very short duration of the flash will freeze any movement.


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Feb 08, 2009 14:53 |  #5

ARadoman wrote in post #7281798 (external link)
ETTL pre-flash is not allowing you to do that, but if you press FEC first, and then shutter, you'll be able to use external strobes. When you press FEC the pre-flash will fire (will also fire the external strobes) and you have to wait few seconds in order to external strobes become operational again, and then you press shutter.

Sorry, it was FEL, not FEC.




  
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Feb 08, 2009 15:49 |  #6

Thanks for the info guys.

I will look into your suggestions... might be an excuse to pick up a 430EX


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Feb 08, 2009 16:08 |  #7

RPCrowe wrote in post #7281802 (external link)
The onboard flash cannot effectively be used as a trigger for off camera strobes which use an optical slave such as the Britek and most other studio type strobes.

However, all is not lost, you can trigger your Britek strobes using an inexpensive Yin Yan infrared trigger available on eBay. I have used this trigger for years to fire White Lightning WL-5000, Britek, and other strobes which fire through their built-in optical slave.

The Yin Yan is offered at intervals on eBay but doesn't appear to be offered at this moment. This is the item I am talking about:
http://www.trademe.co.​nz …ers/auction-197772835.htm (external link)

Another alternative would be to use a radio controlled trigger. However, the less expensive radio controlled triggers are not as reliable as the Yin Yan IR model. I have been using mine without fail for several years now and will buy a back-up unit as soon as I see one listed on eBay again.

By the way; you will of course need to use your camera on manual exposure and keep the shutter speed at 1/60 second. Although, you can sync hotshoe flashes at up to 1/250 second, you need to shoot at 1/60 second for studio strobes. This is no problem since the very short duration of the flash will freeze any movement.

Do you think this would work?

http://cgi.ebay.com …%3A1%7C293%3A1%​7C294%3A50 (external link)

Cheap enough. I'm not sure if my strobes can trigger via infrared? Britek AS-201's. I'm new to the lighting part of photography. :)


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