Optical Slave problem
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Crash10
Registered: Mar 01, 2009
Total Posts: 197
Country: Canada

Does anybody know why my Wein peanut slave will trigger an off camera 285HV with the pop-up flash but it now won't with any other flash? I've tried both on and off camera Sony and Vititar flash's from close and...nothing?? Touch nothing, fire the pop-up, and it triggers!

I'm perplexed!


cgardner
Registered: Nov 18, 2002
Total Posts: 8551
Country: United States

This may be the cause:

Peanuts come in two flavors: traditional and "digital". I suspect you have the "diigital" which ignores the pre-flash the pop-up flash is producing and fires in sync with the main flash. With manual flash the digital variety will wait for the second main triggering flash that never comes. The traditional variety are needed for manual flash.



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FYI - the Peanut is designed to either plug directly into the base of a Vivitar 283/285HV or into the end of a PC cord. I found using mine on the cord and taping it so it could best see my triggering 285HV on the camera bracket was more reliable than sticking in the base of the slave.

Chuck

pitou
Registered: Aug 25, 2005
Total Posts: 51
Country: Haiti

I have the same problem and actually I was going to ask for help here. I got the wein hot shoe slave, works fine with hot shoe flash but won't work if the flash is coming from my AB8000. Is there a fix to this problem?


Jean-Joseph


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