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09/21/2006 10:11:47 PM · #1 |
As always, when in need of help, I turn to the experts.
I am looking to go wireless and in my web search I keep getting drawn back to the Pocket Wizard Plus. The problem is I can not find a decent tutorial as to how this set up works. I see some set ups with two units, one a transmitter and one a receiver. Both are $185.00 a piece but for the life of me I can't tell if I need both or what I am supposed to do with them if I have them. Then there is the Poket Wizard MultiMAX that may take the place of both......but maybe not.
I can buy each piece separately or I guess I can buy both in a kit but in everything I can find online, not one review is clear about the set up and how it works. I found ten+ reviews that scream about how great this is but I need something to explain it to me "like I'm a six year old" (to quote Denzel Washington in the movie Philidelphia")
If anyone can explain in simple terms and in detail, how all of this works, or point me to a tutorial, I will be very grateful.
Thanks in advance for taking the time.
Jim |
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09/22/2006 05:11:03 AM · #2 |
Assuming you're using studio strobes, and not firing your camera, or any of the other interesting things you can do..
You stick the pocket wizard transmitter in the hot shoe of your camera, plug the trigger input on one of your strobes into the sync output of the pocket wizard receiver.
Set the camera to xsync shutter speed, set the pocket wizards to the same channel, meter your strobes to set apeture by pushing the test button on xmitter or receiver, and then fire away.
If you chuck some more money at your light beter you can get a pocket wizards xmitter for that as well, (Sekonic 358)
You can download the manuals from the pocket wizard site from memory, which should give you a good idea of what they do...
Cheers, Chris H. |
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09/23/2006 06:34:22 PM · #3 |
Thank you KiwiChris,
I am going for the manuals right now
Big help |
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