Why You Don’t Want Just a Wireless Trigger
You can buy inexpensive wireless triggers (like the Cactus triggers you see above, which run around $60 for the pair), which use a real RF (radio frequency) wireless transmitter system, and they will definitely fire your flashes wirelessly every time. However, they don’t let you control the brightness of your flash from right on top of your camera. So, each time you want to change your brightness, you have to walk over to the back of the flash unit itself and change the power manually. Now, you might have just read that and thought, “Aw, heck, I can walk over just a few feet and change the power—it’s ...
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