Shutterbeam alternative? (long)

ianmoff

New member
Hi all

If you look at my gallery you'll see some photos of Blue Tits in my garden. I've cranked iso to 1600 and shutter to 1/1000 to freeze wing beat but in my opinion the pix are too dull, dark and noisy. They wont take cropping without becoming unusable. The camera, a D40 with 55-200 f4.5 VR, was set on a tripod and fired remotely.

My new project is more light. I have an SB-25 that I can set remotely with a wireless trigger and onboard flash or SB-400 on the camera. But I'll still have to sit there and trust to reflexes. I'd like a remote trigger for all this so I don't have to sit there with my finger on the button, possibly scaring away subjects!

So looking around the net I was surprised when I could only find a Shutterbeam system. Perfect for what I want but £500 (yes pounds not dollars!) too expensive.

Is there a cheaper alternative?
 

Snap Happy

Senior Member
There is a lot of remote triggers on ebay, if you are willing to spend the time doing a search. Not sure if you have looked already as part of our looking around the net. :)
 

ianmoff

New member
There is a lot of remote triggers on ebay, if you are willing to spend the time doing a search. Not sure if you have looked already as part of our looking around the net. :)

Perhaps I'm looking for the wrong thing. I want an infrared trigger that will remotely fire a D40 when something breaks the beam. All I can find are remote triggers for the camera and I have one of them. Firing the flash is no problem as I have wireless or long PC cords.

If you've seen something please post an item number. Doesn't matter if it's outside UK, it gives me something to work from ;-)

Cheers!

Ian
 
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