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Dirt Cheap Lighting - A Buyer's Guide
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<blockquote data-quote="Mike D90" data-source="post: 216074" data-attributes="member: 17556"><p>I am, again, putting together a cheap/budget studio kit.</p><p></p><p>So far I have my Sunpak PZ40X unit, two Vivitar 265 hot shoe flashes, one Vivitar 285 (non HV) flash and will add two Vivitar 2800 flashes to this.</p><p></p><p>I plan to make the double flash holder piece to fire two flash units in each soft box and the others will be used as a hair light and/or back drop light.</p><p></p><p>I am buying the Cowboy Studios light stands, flash holders and umbrella brackets with two of their medium Speedlight soft boxes and probably one large umbrella.</p><p></p><p>I plan to make my own backdrop stand setup and probably use sheets or muslin fabric.</p><p></p><p>I do have a question here.</p><p></p><p>If I want to fire both flash units in each soft box can I use one radio trigger, per soft box, and use a cheap optical slave trigger on each of the second flash units? Should be enough light to trigger a simple optical slave trigger I think? This would keep me from having to buy five or six radio triggers total.</p><p></p><p>Also, using optical slaves on a second flash . . . . will this cause any flash delay that would be noticeable in the photo? Are they fast enough to fire in sync with the trigger flash?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mike D90, post: 216074, member: 17556"] I am, again, putting together a cheap/budget studio kit. So far I have my Sunpak PZ40X unit, two Vivitar 265 hot shoe flashes, one Vivitar 285 (non HV) flash and will add two Vivitar 2800 flashes to this. I plan to make the double flash holder piece to fire two flash units in each soft box and the others will be used as a hair light and/or back drop light. I am buying the Cowboy Studios light stands, flash holders and umbrella brackets with two of their medium Speedlight soft boxes and probably one large umbrella. I plan to make my own backdrop stand setup and probably use sheets or muslin fabric. I do have a question here. If I want to fire both flash units in each soft box can I use one radio trigger, per soft box, and use a cheap optical slave trigger on each of the second flash units? Should be enough light to trigger a simple optical slave trigger I think? This would keep me from having to buy five or six radio triggers total. Also, using optical slaves on a second flash . . . . will this cause any flash delay that would be noticeable in the photo? Are they fast enough to fire in sync with the trigger flash? [/QUOTE]
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