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I think I could do with a remote flash cord, but Canon's is rather short and over-priced.
In your learn<span class="Unicode"]éd opinions, which would be the most useful without being unmanageably long for packing and transport - the 10ft/3m cord or the much longer 33ft/10m one? Or perhaps the 5ft/1.5m lead? (I suspect this might be slightly limiting at times)
I use a 5ft cord and have not had a problem with length while in the studio, a 10ft might be more appropraite if you take your studio lighting to weddings.
Up front, I'm a big fan of the flashzebra site and I try to support them whenever I can. They have a good selection of TTL cables that are reasonably priced. However, just the other day David Hobby did a write-up on his blog about some coiled 10m TTL cords available on ebay. As the cords are coiled, yet can be stretched a great deal, they may offer the best combination of versatility and useability.
To be honest at this stage I'm not looking to use it for studio lighting as I have none, just for being able to move my 580EXII around and handhold it for more control, probably with my Lumiquest Pro Max attached. But I only ever like to buy something once so if I ever do start using other lighting equipment then I'd want this cord to be useful for that too.
I saw the link to the 10m cords on strobist myself, I linked to the same ebay seller above, but I've not been able to find out their coiled length. The trouble is that I'm not sure I particularly want a great long telephone handset-type cord in my bag getting tangled with itself and everything else all the time.
Feanor if your worried about it tangling in the camera bag store it in a quart sandwich bag before putting it in the camera bag.
So I take it then the conclusion is that longest is best?
Why not a CTR-301P?
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Originally Posted by Oren
Interesting thought, to be honest I didn't know such cheap wireless transmitters existed so thanks for the tip. But it doesn't support TTL so to keep the costs down I think I need to stick with wired remotes.
http://strobist.blogspot.com/2009/11/new-chinese-ttl-remotes-surfacing-for.html
http://strobist.blogspot.com/2009/12/first-look-pixel-tr-331-ttl-remote.html
I dunno how much they cost and the Canon ones aren't available yet, but just thought I'd let you know they exist.
In my opinion, get the longest (reasonable) cord, and leave the excess length wrapped and tied with a bread bag tie or something of that nature. The coiled ones look nice too. I'm in the market for a TTL cord also haha :)
-Rodger
gotcha, pocket wizard would be the most ideal situation then, but that is an expensive way to go.