Cactus Flash Trigger and Receiver V2

[poompy]

Has anybody had any experiences with these items?

http://www.gadgetinfinity.com/product.php?productid=16740&cat=0&page=1

http://www.gadgetinfinity.com/product.php?productid=16741&cat=0&page=1

Was thinking of using this with my old canon speedlight 299t

strobist seem to think they are ok
http://www.flickr.com/groups/strobist/discuss/72157600136709187/

[Wocka]

Hi Poompy,

Yes I have a pair of these triggers. I wrote a review here http://www.dslrusers.net/viewtopic.php?t=22156&highlight=.

The seem to work well, in fact I will use mine again tonight for some macro fun. I'm still on the same set of batteries that came with the units, but I haven't used them a huge amount. About 4 times so far.

I am about to modify mine to use an external battery supply as everyone says the stock batteries are expensive to buy. See this thread: http://www.flickr.com/photos/63856254@N00/348235820/. I have bought the items form DSE, I just need to get the soldering iron out to do the work. My only change is that I bought small micro 2.5mm stereo plugs as I still want to be able to use the stock batteries and not sacrifice the space if I don't need to. Will be a tight fit, but will work.

I'd check out Gadet Infinity's Ebay store, I think it's a little cheaper than direct.

Depending on how far you want to have your flash off camera it might be worth buying the Canon cord ( http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Canon-Off-Camera-Cord-2-E-TTL-TTL-for-580EX-430EX-30D-5_W0QQitemZ180108723263QQihZ008QQcategoryZ43443QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem ) and using that. This would give you full ETTL to the flash. There are articles on Strobist on how to lengthen these with CAT5 network cables. I think I should have gone down this path first.

Cheers

[poompy]

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Cheers

thanks a lot! that was a very helpful post