I've bought three old Bowens strobes with the intention of doing some studio style portraits. I'm wondering what the best way is of firing them.
I'm a little worried about connecting them directly via cable as the firing voltage is 30v. That's fine for all my old film cameras but 30v is the listed maximum for the *ist-D. If I have three strobes connected does that remain 30v or am I suddenly dealing with 90v or three times the current? The other options appear to be simple optical slaves, infra-red optical slaves and radio slaves. I could just buy optical slaves for all three but I wonder whether I will run into trouble using the onboard flash to trigger everything, especially as one strobe will be hiding behind a 4 foot square softbox. I can get a Chinese made radio slave set for $25 but would have to buy three complete sets if I wanted to fire them all that way. Alternatively I could fire one via radio and use optical slaves for the other two. So for those people that use multiple strobes, what setup do you have and why? Thanks, Paul Ewins Melbourne, Australia -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
