Cactus Image, manufacturers of the popular Cactus V5 radio triggers, have announced they have a new manual flash unit with built in radio transceiver and remote manual power control. The new flash is expected to be available around the end of the year. The new transceiver flash will act as...
The Canon 600EX-RT with built in radio system has certainly been a breakthrough for wedding and event photographers, but there are a couple of fairly big problems many people run into when trying to put together a flash system including the Canon RT flashes. The main issue – is...
While we are on the subject of petitioning manufacturers, with a little bit of remodeling in photoshop, I’ve put together a bit of a concept for what I would ideally like to see in a future Mitros + / Odin II interface design. Although the current Mitros and Mitros...
A group of Micro Four Thirds Olympus and Panasonic mirrorless camera enthusiasts have started a Facebook petition page entitled – We Want Radio Flash for Micro Four Thirds. Thomas Geist, initiator of the petition, contacted Flash Havoc asking for support to help spread the word and convey the message on...
Phottix have officially announced the new Mitros+ flash unit for Canon, with full TTL Radio Transceiver built in! Similar in function to the Canon 600EX-RT. UPDATE – Nikon and Sony version Mitros+ are also now available. The new Mitros + retails from around $399, making the Phottix system significantly more...
Phottix have announced the new Mitros + flash unit coming on October 3rd. Full details are to come later this week, but its quite obvious the “+” will add a built in 2.4GHz radio function to the current TTL capable Mitros flash. Likely similar in function to the Canon...
If news of the coming YN-622TX transmitter, YN-560TX transmitter, and RF-603 II triggers, all expected over then next few months, wasn’t enough. A reliable source has informed me that the “flagship trigger product” which YongNuo had been referring to (and expected this month) is not actually the YN-622TX, as...
PocketWizard have release their first hotshoe cord, with the new HSFM3 hotshoe cord to 3.5mm mono miniphone plug. The new hotshoe cord provides a way to connect speedlites without a PC sync port, to manual radio triggers like the PocketWizard Plus X and Plus III, which do not have a hotshoe...
The Pixel King Pro, and King X, ITTL and HSS enabled radio triggers for Nikon DSLR cameras, are now available from the Pixel Ebay store for $157 a set, and they should start reaching stores and Amazon etc shortly. The King Pro and King X are a major upgrade...
YongNuo have two great 2.4GHz flash and trigger systems on the way with the new flagship YN-622 TX, TTL and HSS enabled transmitter due next month, and the YN-560 TX remote manual transmitter to arrive a month or so later. But as promising as these 2 systems are looking,...
YongNuo will release a new MK II version of the very popular RF-603 manual flash trigger and shutter release next week. The new RF-603 II will have higher sync speed, locking rings, and improved flash/shutter control. Also importantly, the new RF-603 will work with other non Canon/Nikon and single...
With the latest firmware updates the Phottix Odin TTL triggers for Canon and Nikon now have a great new feature called Over Drive Sync, or ODS. ODS is a fast and simple, but also very precise, timing adjustment, allowing you to tune in the best results possible when using...
The Phottix Odin TTL radio triggers for Canon have received a major firmware update, adding a great new Over Drive Sync timing feature, and added compatibility with lightmeter use when using remote manual power setting. As well as Canon 1Dx Compatibility. This is actually mainly a firmware update for...
YongNuo have now confirmed a remote manual power control function is already built into the current YN-560 III manual flash units ! This function will be enabled via a new YN-560 transmitter unit with built in LCD interface, to be available before the end of 2013 EDIT – to...
The new Radiopopper Nano manual radio flash triggers are now available for $69.95 each, for separate transmitter and receiver units. The Nano are a super simple all manual transmitter and receiver, with very solid up to 500 metre range to rival the PocketWizard Plus series flash triggers. Features – Simple manual triggers...
YongNuo will release a new YN-622-TX controller unit with built in LCD screen and user interface for use with the current YN-622 TTL and HSS triggers. UPDATE – Now Released! The new controller will be a stand alone transmitter unit mounted directly onto the camera hotshoe, (not on top...
The impressive new Pixel King Pro and King X, ETTL, HSS, and Remote Manual, flash triggers are now available. Pixel really have stepped it up with the new 3rd generation King Pro Transmitter and King X receiver. This is a major change in the physical build, as well as...
NicePhoto have released a brochure showing their new TTL and HSS enabled radio triggers, the TTL-318 transmitter, and TTL-316 receiver, in Canon, Nikon, and Sony versions. The TTL-318/316 support TLL, Manual and Multi modes, as well as FP HSS to 1/8000th, 3 groups, 15 channels, plus an “ALL” channel...
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