Just sprang for the Poppers!

[Shea Design]

Just decided to step up to the RadioPopper Px system! 1 Tranz, 4 Receviers - $1,245 B4 shipping. I am so looking FWD to working wireless, and with decent sync speeds for strobist stylee.


I'll keep yall in the loop in terms of delivery, install and performance - unless I run off to the dessert. Oatmeal for dinner now.


-Shea

[Jarhead5811]

Cool!!! HSS seems to have great potential. I've just started tinkering myself.

[TucsonTRD]

Congrats on the purchase. Hopefully the transition to wireless is painless.

[Sean Setters]

I think we all look forward to seeing what you can do with your new toys. ;-)

[Shea Design]

RE: Delivery - Ordered after 5 pm Monday night, just got shipping conformation Tuesday mid morning! I bring this trivial news flash because when I was researching the product I kept reading about supply issues and delayed product. It would seem inventories are up now, shipping even faster than the 2-4 days indicated by their website at the time of my order.


$21.11 for 2nd day air should have me installing in short order. Oatmeal for breakfast, working the model boards... ABC = Always Be Charging those batteries too.


-Shea

[Shea Design]

Ordered Monday evening, operational by Thursday afternoon, not bad.. UPS got here @ 2pm & I had all 4 units and the transmitter working by 3pm. I've got a lot of experimenting to do with these babies so I will wait till I have more experience B4 posting any captures. Needless to say I had 1/8000 f1/8 ISO 50 (and several other settings) working no problemo.


I'm getting some random fires from the 'dual head' of my own design, one while handling the gizmo so I suspect some RF weirdness. That's all for now.


-Shea

[Sheiky]

Wow pretty cool settings you can use...much better than my "el cheapo" triggers [A]


Looking forward to some results!

[Jarhead5811]

1/8000 f1/8 ISO 50

Ok, now I'm drooling!

[Shea Design]

Ok, so as to not keep interested parties waiting.. my first strobist capture with the poppers:
f/2.8 - 1/4000th ISO 50





BTW I was distracted enough (@ the beach) to forget to re-install the transmitter antenna (warnings against this in manual). Lucky it did not fry the unit with the 3 or 4 test shots I took.


I was probably smart to remove it in a backpack application as it is rigid and exposed to leverage during handling... Let's just hope I have learned that lesson the easy way.


BTW - This was taken with the ST-E2 as a master, although using a 580exII as the master opens up control of 3 groups (levels) I knew I was on a full power HSS mission.


-Shea


P.S. I should note this was a spontaneous shoot in the 'Confessions of a Photographer' tradition. I just spotted these kids doing back flips off a beach ledge and asked them if they wanted to take a really cool photo. They needed just a little coaching on flash handling and took turns doing the flips. 2 helpers, 2 flashes.


EDIT: Here is the side shot:

[Sheiky]

Awesome, really cool stuff Shea!


Of camera flash with that shutterspeed is really cool!


Have fun!


Jan