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I thought I’d put up a post about the triggers from Pocketwizard and Elinchrom Skyport used together on the same shoot. This question was something that was spinning around in my head for a few days now and I just didn’t have the time to see if they were compatible. The short answer is yes [...]
The idea of down on the beach was a simple choice. As the weather has been a little close to what one would expect in Siberia, naturally I jumped into Lightroom to see if I could warm myself up by working on some untreated photos which had a bit of warmth in them!
These shots [...]
Ranger sync test
The Elinchrom Ranger Quadra flash system is triggered by the new Elinchrom Skyport Speed, which has a sync speed of 1/250th second. I saw a few alarming posts on the Internet about people using this sync speed on their various cameras, Nikons and Canons, only to find that at [...]
This afternoon I took the Ranger Quadra outside for a little power test. I set up one flash head on a tripod and with a long piece of string, tied a figure of eight knot and attached it to the tripod. Setting the Ranger to ‘F/6′, which is the most powerful output at 400 joules, [...]
I took the Ranger Quadra out for a quick try this afternoon to see how it would handle. The ambient light at 3pm was a bit harsh, but as it couldn’t be worse, this would be a good test. My first hurdle encountered was the discovery that the Elinchrom Skyport Speed trigger, would not fire [...]
