Does anyone have any experience with the new 600EX and PocketWizards? Wondering if the new flashes emit as much RF interference as the 430EX/580EX/580EXII or play nice with the PocketWizard frequencies like the 430EXII?
klam wrote:
Does anyone have any experience with the new 600EX and PocketWizards? Wondering if the new flashes emit as much RF interference as the 430EX/580EX/580EXII or play nice with the PocketWizard frequencies like the 430EXII?
are you talking about the RT version or the version for markets that dont allow the radio?
If your talking RT then I cant for the life of me think why I'd spend that amount on a flash who's system has been shown to work well and then stick anything like PW's on it
Mostly as a backup. I ordered two of them, but if one breaks on a job I want to be able too use my TT5s to finish. Also, If you want to include strobes or older flash on jobs it might be necessary to still use pocket wizards at times.
I found PW Flex to be unstable - bought Phottix Odins instead. Half the price, better performance.
And, if you have other manual flash utnits you want to use/throw in the mix, you can mix and match with the cheaper Strato units. Phottix are on the 2.4Ghz frequnecy band which is less affected by Canon RF noise. Still haven't tried with the new Canon flash units, but would prefer to use the Canon RF system whenever possible. Think it will be hard to beat, with audio feedback and all. If you want to mix with other flash equipment then I would try the Phottix Strato which has a hotshoe that lets the signal through so you could probably place the Canon ST-E3 on top of the Strato transmitter and have the best of both worlds.
The new 600EX does not play well with the ETTL PW units, maybe PW will have a firmware update to address the incompatibility soon. Until then, nobody can tell if the RF interference is still an issue. If you need an answer right now, maybe contacting PW support is the best option.
Thanks all. Anyone try them with the regular PW Plus II? I had trouble getting even those to work reliably even with the 580EX. When I get my 600EX-RT I plan to get rid of my PW Flex, but I still use the Plus II for various work.
Get another 600 and sell your PW's....problem solved. I do mix systems with mine...one
600 on camera, another 600 slave and a photix strato on hotshoe to trigger my remote
qflash...works like a dream and I can dial my ratios independently
