Do I need remote control or not

[sbp]

I have bought two Alien Bee. Which has come with cord as well.
If I connect that cord to one bee and my camara then when I take picture both strobe fires up no problem.

I have 550ex which has setting off-master-slave.
Question: If I set 550ex to master and do not connect cord to bee should bee fire or not?

I have try this didn't work. I was woundering if I am missing something.

Thanks

[srwatters]

Why do you need the 550? The studio strobes will give you all the light you need.

The problem is most likely the way the 550 is operating. If it does any pre-flashes, that will fire the Bees early and they won't be in the exposure. Do you want to fire the strobes wirelessly? Then go to EBay and buy the $35 slave trigger (search on wireless slave trigger) then leave the 550 for away from the studio.

[sbp]

Originally Posted by srwatters

Why do you need the 550? The studio strobes will give you all the light you need.

The problem is most likely the way the 550 is operating. If it does any pre-flashes, that will fire the Bees early and they won't be in the exposure. Do you want to fire the strobes wirelessly? Then go to EBay and buy the $35 slave trigger (search on wireless slave trigger) then leave the 550 for away from the studio.

SO if I have wireless slave trigger. I pulg a trigger to a strobe's sync port. Put sender in to hot shoe on my d20. Take picture within 20-30ft of strobe and both strobes will fire. Am I correcrt?

Thanks

[CaptainTom]

Yes

[sbp]

Originally Posted by CaptainTom

Yes

Ok Thanks.
One more help.

Is this correct one I am looking?
Why are there so much price difference between ebay and other standard company.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Slave-Flash-Wire...QQcmdZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.com/Radio-Slave-4-ch...QQcmdZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.com/4-channel-Radio-...QQcmdZViewItem

From B&H
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/cont...goryNavigation

[brad]

I don't know enough about how the bees are triggered, but if they are like mine and are triggered by another strobe flashing, then you may have a problem if you get the bees too far apart... the one that isn't wired may not detect the one that is going off. I ran into this problem at my first wedding... was not a pleasant experience.... I'm taking wireless triggers to my next one. LOL

[sbp]

Originally Posted by brad

I don't know enough about how the bees are triggered, but if they are like mine and are triggered by another strobe flashing, then you may have a problem if you get the bees too far apart... the one that isn't wired may not detect the one that is going off. I ran into this problem at my first wedding... was not a pleasant experience.... I'm taking wireless triggers to my next one. LOL

That is eaxcetly what I was thinking to do. tonight I will check my bee to see how far they can go and still trigger. But I still have to have wireless incase if I decided to put that in main hall because I don't want to run with cable in main hall.

[srwatters]

Originally Posted by sbp

Ok Thanks.
One more help.

Is this correct one I am looking?
Why are there so much price difference between ebay and other standard company.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Slave-Flash-Wire...QQcmdZViewItem

This is the one that I currently use.

Impact is more of a name brand and their unit may have better performance. For my small studio the EBay unit works well.

YMMV.

[dminton]

The "Off/Master/Slave" switch is for the Canon Infra-Red wireless triggering system. It will only trigger another IR enabled Canon Speedlite (550, 420, 580, 430 etc) and nothing else. And it works for crap in direct sun, the worlds largest IR source. And only if they are pretty much pointed at each other. One of the few lemons from Camp Canon.

[DEMDeepEllumMusic]

I have a Quantum set up and it works great!
http://cgi.ebay.com/Quantum-Flash-Ra...QQcmdZViewItem
Be sure to note frequency that unit is set on this one is D, you can buy more receivers on EBAY since they come up all the time. If you do a little google work on Quantum you will see that they are well respected.

My units were picked up on Ebay and are a couple years old but work flawlessly.

I don't know about that off brand that you linked and if it went bad if you could even get service for it but for $30 I guess you would just toss it.
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/cont...22&Submit.y=12

[sbp]

I did test my bee. game room is about 18feet diagonal.

I place both unit opposite with each other use cord to fire one and both fired up. I even try putting one on side where wall is blocking view of other Bee(around 21ft) and still worked. I think I will buy cheap wireless as I am running tight on money this time.

[Stephen]

I had a group shot of about 100 people last weekend and the strobes were about 20 feet apart and they would not fire so i would suggest getting a wireless setup going.

[sbp]

Can I buy Wireless Trigger that is looks like only available on ebay locally ?