WhyNottMe?

I used to love IR

Sunday, May 15th, 2011 | Uncategorized | No Comments

recently I purchased some new flashes.  Which flashes you ask?  well, some Travelite 750’s.  by some I mean 2.  All this thanks to my older brother Mark who told me is father in law was getting rid of his for a ridiculously low price!  well, they are awesome slave flashes, one little issue I have is, I have 2 sb-600 flashes which don’t slave, they only trigger from hot shoe or IR (infrared).  So the 4 of them couldn’t play fair with each other.  than, I started looking into rf trigger.  I first looked at pocket wizard, the current leader here in the US, but at $150+ a unit I had no way of justifying that cost.  I found one by Alien Bee, which is a company that I had considered buying slaves flashes from in the past.  but again, the price was just too high.  so I looked into the chinese brands, which have been lovingly nick named the poverty wizards.  I was basically sold on one called the cactus 5.  it had all the features of the pocket wizard, but lacked in the review.  sure people were saying it did ok, just a few mis-fires here and there, but at $50 a unit, I could almost justify it.  And than I accidentally came across one on youtube.  The Yongnuo Rf-602.  it seemed like a decent unit, great review, so I went to price it out.  The price wan’t bad, but it also pulled up one called the RF-603.  so I did a google search.  Not a single bad review.  in fact, the forums boasted that it was more reliable than the current pocket wizard (I don’t know which model that would be.)  at a price tag of 2 for $40, it was worth a shot.  3 weeks later, they arrived and I have to say.  I’m very impressed.  I have yet to have a mis-fire, they sync up all my flashes’ very nicely, and I would never have tried my sb-600 in manual mode if it wasn’t for these little beauties (PS. i love manual mode on my sb-600).  In conclusion, IR is great for indoors, close range photos.  I’m far from done with it.  but RF (radio frequency) has become my favorite way to flash those I’m shooting!