After an evening of playing some more with my Cactus V1 Triggers, I came to realize a few things.
First, you get what you pay for.
Second, there might be a way to fix this.
I’ve been frustrated in the past and more so tonight, by the seemingly random discharge of the receiving units. This happens when there [...]

Just wanted to share this link with everyone interested.
This guy has posted several mods for the Cactus V2 wireless triggers on his blog.
Very interesting stuff. For those of you who’ve got the imagination and skills, these wireless remotes are very mod-able.
The three mods he’s performing are (in order of difficulty):
- adding a lanyard
- adding an [...]

Well, here I am after a very long absence. For my comeback I have reviewed the Vivitar VP-1 Varipower Adapter. I’ve purchased a couple of these during my time off from photography and I gotta say, I love them. During my absence I also bought a LaCrosse Technologies battery charger which is another cool piece [...]

After ages of reading David Hobby’s excellent Strobist blog (and hopefully assimilating some of the stuff he teaches), I finally decided to participate in one of his assignments with a few shots of my own. In order to do that I had to perform the correct motions of registering on Flickr, joining his Strobist group [...]

The weirdest thing just happened. Well, I’d been warned that these eBay remotes might act up but as far as I knew, they only misbehaved with a couple of strobes, namely Canon’s 430EX and I believe the 580 (not sure about that). Tonight I had a photo session in mind and I shot a bunch [...]