Quick question, Do Alien Bees work with your normal flash triggers or do you specifically have to purchase cybersyncs? I have been considering purchasing an AB800 for inhome studio stuff, but wasn't sure if I would have additional investments into the PCB franchise with having to purchase the triggers as well. Thanks for the assistance.
Jayson
They'll work with any triggers. As long as you have a 1/8" miniphone cord, it'll work. My white lightnings have a 1/4" sync port, which means I have to use this adapter when using 1/8" cords. The neat thing about the adapter is that it will disable the optical slave cell when using the Cyber Commander and Cybersync CSRB+ receivers (it's necessary to disable the slave cell for optimal operation), so it serves two purposes--1) enabling the use of dumb triggers and 2) disabling the slave cell when syncing through the phone jack port.
Yeah, what he said. Pocket wizard has a video about using their triggers with the alien bee specifically.
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Originally Posted by Rocco
Can you share a link with us?
Mark
Can you share a link with us?
Sure thing. This is the page to their AC9 product overview with the video on it.
http://www.pocketwizard.com/products/transmitter_receiver/ac9%20alienbees%20adapter/
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