Fuji S5 and lighting kits

[W00DY]

Hi All,

I received my set of the lights Poon is selling today and have only had a very quick play using the umbrellas.

One question - With the Fuji S5 (or any camera body I guess) should you put the flash setting on TTL or Commander?

On the S5 you can control external SB800's from the camera body (up to 4 channels I think) does this work with these lights as well or do I need to just leave the camera in TTL mode and adjust power on the lights?

I have a lot of learning to do with these things (Starting with how to put the softbox together )

Cheers,
W00DY

[Yi-P]

No, you put the camera to manual flash.

TTL or CLS preflashes is enough to set those flashes out and you won't get a proper sync with the flashes.

So, either put your SB800 on manual and smallest power output (1/128) or the S5's flash at manual output at 1/128 or 1/16 (whichever is lowest).

Or, simply attach the sync cable that came with the studio flash into the S5's PC Sync terminal (should be on the left side/front).

[gstark]

Use the radio trigger.

[W00DY]

He He...

After I posted I remembered that Gary told us to use Manual in the workshops, so I chnaged the settings and it was working much better

So if you use the radio trigger do you not need to have the inbuilt flash up? is that how it works?

[W00DY]

Since I don't have any AAA batteries I can't test the radio trigger but I assume that if I want to use both lights then I need to buy another receiver, is that correct?

If so , do I have to buy the same brand or will any receiver be fine?

Oh and it was nice to find the instructions for the radio trigger were in English (since the ones for the lights were not) so I worked out the transmitter sits in the hot shoe therefore you don't need the internal flash up.

[Oz_Beachside]

most radio triggers have two parts, a transmitter (sender) and a receiver. the transmitter typically mount in the camera hotshoe, and sends a signal when you release the shutter. that simple, no camera settings impact this pulse, just push the button.

the receiver typically has a lead into the flash light, and receives the pulse, and pops the lights.

the same applies to using a lead, in fact, there the only difference in way of working, is that the wire is wireless.