My flashes and my strobe, and....your comments

so check this out. I have 430ex2 and the 580 ex2...
I have the white lighting x2400
and the Calument Tx and Rx
also the St-E2

anyways long story made short....how can I ghetto rig all of this

so that way I can have 3 light setup....


YES YES I KNOW ALREADY that I need to pick up another flash and complete it like that, but that why i said GHETTO RIG....

I want the strobe to work with the two flashes, and I got the equipment to make it happen.

I THINK

come on people you know your shiiiiii..... help a playa out

all the views and no comments, wow... some people are just sorry lurkers .....

you can fire both your speedlites in master/slave mode using the STE2. those flashes will in turn trigger the WL thru optical triggering. I think WL has an optical sensor that will detect the flashes from your speedlite.

jeromego wrote in post #9198856
you can fire both your speedlites in master/slave mode using the STE2. those flashes will in turn trigger the WL thru optical triggering. I think WL has an optical sensor that will detect the flashes from your speedlite.

hmmmmm, alright, im hooking that up tonight then,

btw just out of curiosity is my 580 stronger then my 430 ? or just has more options but in reality the same ?

jeromego wrote in post #9198856
you can fire both your speedlites in master/slave mode using the STE2. those flashes will in turn trigger the WL thru optical triggering. I think WL has an optical sensor that will detect the flashes from your speedlite.

Nope, that's not going to work. As soon as the ST-E2 sends out the command signals to the slave EX flashes, the WL strobes will fire and drown out the command signal. So, the WL strobes will fire prematurely and the EX slaves will not, resulting in an unlit image.

But, you can hook up the WL strobes to the Calumet remotes (with the Tx unit connected to the PC sync port of the camera) and then fire the EX flashes, set to manual slave mode, with the ST-E2.

PacAce wrote in post #9198951
Nope, that's not going to work. As soon as the ST-E2 sends out the command signals to the slave EX flashes, the WL strobes will fire and drown out the command signal. So, the WL strobes will fire prematurely and the EX slaves will not, resulting in an unlit image.

But, you can hook up the WL strobes to the Calumet remotes (with the Tx unit connected to the PC sync port of the camera) and then fire the EX flashes, set to manual slave mode, with the ST-E2.

Sorry OP, Leo is right. I stand corrected.

Leo's suggestion is the way to do it.

ROAR wrote in post #9199047
Hey man,

you would be better off getting a real light set up. strobes are much more powerful!

check out alien bees .

OP has the white lightning which is the higher end brand of Paul C Buff (manufacturer of Alien Bee)

PacAce wrote in post #9198951
Nope, that's not going to work. As soon as the ST-E2 sends out the command signals to the slave EX flashes, the WL strobes will fire and drown out the command signal. So, the WL strobes will fire prematurely and the EX slaves will not, resulting in an unlit image.

But, you can hook up the WL strobes to the Calumet remotes (with the Tx unit connected to the PC sync port of the camera) and then fire the EX flashes, set to manual slave mode, with the ST-E2.

Im going to have to re-read this like 3 more times.
how about you give me the play by play dummy version D

PacAce wrote in post #9198951
Nope, that's not going to work. As soon as the ST-E2 sends out the command signals to the slave EX flashes, the WL strobes will fire and drown out the command signal. So, the WL strobes will fire prematurely and the EX slaves will not, resulting in an unlit image.

But, you can hook up the WL strobes to the Calumet remotes (with the Tx unit connected to the PC sync port of the camera) and then fire the EX flashes, set to manual slave mode, with the ST-E2.

so basically I am connecting my Calumet and the St-E2 together at the same time to the camera ?


that wont mess up anything ?

Eiro wrote in post #9199434
so basically I am connecting my Calumet and the St-E2 together at the same time to the camera ?


that wont mess up anything ?

Yes to the 1st question and no to the 2nd.

PacAce wrote in post #9199485
Yes to the 1st question and no to the 2nd.

hang on, I'm going to experiment that on my xti, dont want to mess up my good stuff,

Couldnt do it on my XTI, because of a thing thingy, Ill explain later didnt want to mess with my 5ds so I did it on my 50d WORKS LIKE A CHARM.

Thanks a bunch, but ideally I guess having a third flash would be better,