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Anonymous
Sup /p/

I'm about to delve into getting some decent lighting for portraiture and was wondering what would be the best way to undertake the sync?
A lot of the wireless hot shoe adapters on ebay look pretty shoddy. Could someone post what they use in this instance?
>> Anonymous
My experience with the cheap hotshoe syncs on eBay has been... mixed.

They work great connected to my Vivitar 285HV. If I try to plug one into any other flash, it immediately kills it dead.

It's probably that my other flashes have an unsafe sync voltage, but it's something you might want to take into account depending on what lights you go with.
>> Anonymous
I generally just plug a sync cord from my camera into one of the lights, then let the built in slaves on the other lights do their thing. With a 20 foot sync cord, I have plenty of room to move around.
>> Anonymous
>>80144
>With a 20 foot sync cord, I have plenty of room to move around until I try to go a little too far and the weight of the cord brings my light stand crashing down to the ground.
Fix'd
>> Anonymous
>>80146
Perhaps if you have a really shitty light stand, which I do not. Plus I'm not fucking retarded, so I don't walk away with the camera in my hands.
>> Anonymous
>>80144
unfortunately my camera doesn't have a port for a sync cord, only the hot shoe
>> Anonymous
>>80260

get the Nikon AS-15 sync terminal. 20 bucks.
>> Anonymous
>>80262
ok, I need something like that but for a canon
>> des
>>80266
>>80262
It's not the TTL cable, it's just hotshoe to PC, it'll work on anything.
>> Anonymous
>>80289
Awesome
>> Anonymous
>>80223
The other day, I was wandering around my office taking shots for the website with a wire from my camera to my light stand. It was *extremely* annoying.

It might be fine for studio work, but if you have to move your camera and/or lights around a lot, the wire sucks ass. And the 16' cable I got (with hot-shoe adapter, since my camera doesn't have a PC Sync port) was about the same price as the Cactus PT-04 set that I replaced it with.