Product Description

User instruction: 1. Make sure the transmitter and the receiver are at the SAME control channel. On the transmitter, the blue DIP switch of channel setting is on bottom side; on the receiver, the channel setting switch is inside the battery compartment. By channel setting, you can group the flash equipment into channel 1, 2, 3 or 4, and then switch the transmitter into channel 1, 2, 3 or 4 to control the different lighting group. 2. Press the TEST button of the transmitter to confirm operation of the flash equipment in the chosen configuration before taking photography. 3. Connect the transmitter with your light meter by the X Sync Cord. Press the metering button of the light meter to meter light. Please make sure the shutter speed is not more than the max Sync speed of your camera. Adjust the light output of the flash equipment if needed, then meter light again. Disconnect the transmitter with the light meter. 4. Mount the transmitter on the camera hot shoe. If your camera does not have a hot shoe but have a PC terminal, then connect the transmitter with the camera by the X Sync Cord. Feel annoying by connect and disconnect the transmitter with the light meter or the camera? We strongly recommend you buy an additional transmitter. Thus you can have one transmitter for the light meter and on for the camera! 5. Set the camera into M mode, and then set the desired shutter speed and metered aperture value. Now you can trigger the flash equipment by press the shuttle release button of the camera to take pictures. Package Includes: 1x Transmitter 1 x Receiver 1 x Receiver battery 1 x sync cord In the list, the flashgun is not included

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #37563 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: BV & Jo
• Dimensions: .66 pounds

Features

• This wireless trigger is control discreteness for camera to trigger hot shoe flashgun synchronously.
• It can be used for other one pin contact hotshoe flashs as well, such as Nikon Sb-600,Sb-800,Sb50, S
• This principal works by one transmitter and one receiver.
• The signal transmitter can transmit the wireless signal that is being encoded,
• the receive work with a CR2/3V battery, and decode with a microprocessor

Customer Reviews

Don't bother
Works only when connected with the cable provided. And seeing as it is advertised as being wireless makes it a bit of a waste of space and money. I would return it but the return postage would cost nearly as much as the cost of the product.

Cheap alternative to Pocket Wizard
I have had one of these kits for a while now and so far I have been very happy.

At the time of writing this there is only one other review and I would first like to correct what that reviewer has said. These devices are advertised as wireless and they *ARE* wireless when it comes to the signal between the transmitter and receiver. You _may_ need the short wires when connecting the transmitter to your camera or receiver to your flash.

I have Canon cameras and hot shoe flashes (not studio strobes). The transmitter sits in the hot shoe of the camera perfectly, no wires needed here. The flash sits on the hot shoe of the receiver, again no wires needed. However, if you put your flash on a light stand with an umbrella or softbox then you may find that the size of the receiver raises the flash head too much, causing the hot spot of light to miss the centre of the umbrella/softbox. In that case you can use a short PC cable to link the receiver to the flash, sitting the flash directly on the light stand. If your flash does not have a PC connector (like the Canon 430EX II) then a small (and cheap) PC-to-hotshoe adapter can be used.

If you have studio flashes then of course they have no hot shoe connector and you must use a short PC cable to connect the receiver to the trigger input of the strobe.

When using a short PC cable with either the studio strobes or hot shoe flash I have found using some sticky Velcro very useful. I have a small square of the hook Velcro on the receiver and square of the loop Velcro on my flash. That way I can just stick the receiver to the flash rather than have it dangling on the PC wire. Not sure how sturdy the PC cables and connectors are but a couple of bits of Velcro has to be cheaper than trying to get a new PC socket fitted to a flash!

In use they are very reliable. I have seen some misfires, but not enough to bother me. Range is fine too for use in a small studio. Not tried firing flashes through windows al la Joe McNally, but I suspect you may need something a little more powerful for that. Given that Pocket Wizards cost about 20x what these cost I would expect there to be a difference in range! The build quality is also not the best but at this price they are almost disposable.

I probably will buy Pocket Wizards eventually, but for now I am very happy with these and have in fact ordered some more so I can trigger multiple flashes.