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<blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 590943" data-attributes="member: 13090">Well, to put it simply, you can take the flash unit off your camera and attach what's called a wireless receiver to it. Then you attach what's called a wireless trigger to the camera's hot-shoe. The trigger and the receiver are able to communicate with one another to fire the flash as if it were attached to the camera. This being the case you can position the flash pretty much anywhere you want it, up to several feet away from you. When you press the shutter button the flash fires just as if it were attached to the hot-shoe. As I'm sure you can imagine being able to position the flash anywhere you want, instead of just top of your camera, opens up a lot creative possibilities. Slave units are simply additional flashes that fire when the primary flash, called the Master, tells them to fire. That's a gross oversimplification but there you have it. Using slaves allows you to have more control over how much light there is and where that light comes from and all that.See? Easy-peasy, lemon squeezy!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Horoscope Fish, post: 590943, member: 13090"] Well, to put it simply, you can take the flash unit off your camera and attach what's called a wireless [I]receiver[/I] to it. Then you attach what's called a wireless [I]trigger[/I] to the camera's hot-shoe. The trigger and the receiver are able to communicate with one another to fire the flash as if it were attached to the camera. This being the case you can position the flash pretty much anywhere you want it, up to several feet away from you. When you press the shutter button the flash fires just as if it were attached to the hot-shoe. As I'm sure you can imagine being able to position the flash anywhere you want, instead of just top of your camera, opens up a lot creative possibilities. Slave units are simply additional flashes that fire when the primary flash, called the Master, tells them to fire. That's a gross oversimplification but there you have it. Using slaves allows you to have more control over how much light there is and where that light comes from and all that. See? Easy-peasy, lemon squeezy! [/QUOTE]

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