Hiya everyone. I hope you are all off to a flying 2011 and having lots of fun along the way. This is just a quick little blog post tonight for the purposes of sharing a video I created the other week about how to use the new PocketWizard Mini TT1 and Flex TT5 ControlTL (i-TTL) triggers with your Nikon cameras and flashes. Without further ado, have a look at the video...
So there you go. It's all pretty straight forward in principle, and the triggers are accompanied by the most concise, straight forward and logical instruction manuals that I have had the pleasure of reading. Nice one PocketWizard.
All in all, there's some pretty cool technology here. In fact, it is a little easy to use the triggers in i-TTL mode all of the time, albeit at the expense of potentially frying your flashes if they are working hard to overcome bright sunlight for long periods of time. It is for this reason that I am hanging out for the AC3 Zone controller to be released.
I probably should preface that a little bit first. You see, what I meant to say is that instead of leaving the flashes in i-TTL mode all the time on a bright sunny day, the more efficient and friendly thing to do would be to set the flashes to manual mode, meaning that they do not have to work nearly as hard during the shoot due to the fact they no longer have to emit all those power sapping, flash-tube heating pre-flashes all the time.
This would usually entail walking over to the flashes, setting them to Manual output and then play a little dance up and down the power scale of the flash until you get the output correct for your camera's exposure settings, all the while walking backward and forwards from flash to camera position to keep re-checking the images before you are satisfied. The AC3 allows you to do all that right from your camera position. Cool.
But this is supposed to be a quick blog post so I think I'll leave it there for now. We got a few interesting projects coming down the pipeline so I'll keep you all posted about them as they occur - I don't wanna jinx myself!
Take care for now, keep shooting what you love and I'll talk to you soon.
