Thanks for all the suggestions. I will try them later. The flash works perfect on the camera but when I hook the receiver to it it goes into rapid fire mode and wont stop. I believe Daniel is correct about the interference issue.
mh2000 wrote:
why not just use the 383? if you are using the 430EX for multi flash maybe the optical trigger will work with that... just a thought.
Does the 430 have a built in optical trigger? or do you mean use a seperate one. I have a seperate one that I was going to use, but if the 430 has one built in that would be even better.
Well, the batteries and changing channels didnt help. No biggie though. I am going to use the 430 on the camera and run the transmitter off the pc socket. I am getting good results like this.
I tried using my optical slave on the 430 and it will fire one time and then locks up. I thought that was very strange. It does not seem to like being used anywhere but on the camera. It is a real cheap slave, I figure it is causing some type of electrical interference causing the electronics in the flash to freeze. This slave works fine on the 430.
no, what I meant was that many photos using a multiple flash units radio to their main and use optical triggers for the others. If I was only using one of the OP's units on radio trigger it would be the 383 anyway, but if you want to add the 430 as a secondary and it didn't work with the radio trigger I thought it might work with an optical... but I see that that doesn't work either... buy a second 383... and use the 430 for what it was built for...
