Studio photography question?
Alrighty then.
I have a canon rebel Xsi.I’ve had it for about a year now and I’ve decided to get a studio kit including 2 moonlights and flashes and 2 backgrounds. The problem I have is getting the flashes under the moonlights to go off with the camera shutter. I need some sort of remote the connects to the moonlights and the camera.I’ve seen one before I just don’t know what it’s called. Please help.
Thanks
I presume you mean monolights?? Not heard of moonlights in the studio!
You have various options – most monolights have a simple optical slave. If you have an on camera flash, set it to manual (NOT TTL) and fire it at the lowest power setting it will go. It will trigger the monolights. Don’t use it in TTL mode as TTL sends out a pre-flash which will set off the monos and they won’t recharge in time for the main flash.
Next option is to control them wired – you use a PC sync cord. If your camera has a PC sync socket, one end of the cord goes into it, the other end is a 1/4″ jack which goes into the sync socket on the monolight. If your camera does not have a PC socket, you have to buy a hotshoe to PC adapter, which slides onto the camera hotshoe and has a PC port in the side.
Best option is to use wireless radio triggers – means you can move about without trailing wires everywhere. Best at the moment for cheapness and reliability are the RF602’s. The transmitter slides into the hotshoe, the receiver plugs into the 1/4″ socket (via an optional 1/4″ jack).
Your camera will have a max sync speed (1/200 or 1/250) above which you cannot shoot, otherwise the rear shutter curtain will start to show as a black band across the image. You can shoot at or below the sync speed, depending on how much ambient light you want to blend into the scene.
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