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Pocketwizard Plus X - You can get 2 transceivers for like $175. They're practically the industry standard, and reliable. 99% of strobes have an optical trigger that works fine, so all you need is the 2. I've shot with upwards of 8 lights, never had an issue using only 2 transceivers, so unless someone is being super complicated (probably unecessarily so at that) there shouldn't be any issue.
Remember, you're renting these out. It shouldn't matter how you shoot (preferring not to use optical triggering)...it should be more "just in case" someone who rents doesn't have their own gear. In addition, if you're pairing these to your personal elinchrom setup, there's no point in cheaping out on triggers. You wouldn't rent out your Aston Martin Vanquish and supply renters with cheap chinese tires would you?
Plus, I'd rather rent out PW's than some cheap chinese stuff...regardless of what others think I've found in my experience (managed a rental studio just south of LA for 3 years) that the chinese stuff (and other cheap options) is really unreliable, and that's not a good way to keep renters happy (ie. charging them for something that breaks or doesn't fire every time). If you see yourself getting a lot of rentals, and those renters requiring the usage of your triggers, then eventually the cost of multiple sets of PW's would pay themselves off. We charged $20 per rental to use our PW II's for example.
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