A quick warning about wiring to strobes directly... Once recently I had a DS wired by 10' cables to two flash units, but received some kind of radio frequency interference which actually showed up in some of the photos. Somebody was transmitting with a radio at the moment that my flashes went off, probably a high powered shortwave or CB radio nearby.
If you are going to do this, get a 'ferrite core' from the local electronics store and clamp it around your PC cable right next to the camera. We use them even with our flash brackets now. It's just a one inch long block of plastic case with ferrite material inside, which clamps right onto the cable. You find them built into many computer connectors like USB cables. You can get away with cables but radio transceivers really are nice. The fewer cables, the fewer chances for someone to trip over them and knock everything down and sue you. Light stand legs are bad enough. I gaffer tape them to the floor, but sometimes I'm tempted to wrap them in reflective tape with blinking LEDs added for good measure. The other thing is if it's on location for a client, then you really want a better connector to the flash units. The PC connectors get flakey at just the wrong time. Look for "Paramount" brand connectors which go directly from your hotshoe over to the connector you need for the flash units ( often a 1/4" or household connector). No PC connector to mess things up! The hotshoe connector slides on like a flash, with the cable going sideways. You choose which way you want to slide it on. Brian -- Brian Dunn Photographic http://www.bdphotographic.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
