My search for reliable and affordable wireless controllers led me to the CyberSyncs. It all started back with my ebay radio poppers (poverty wizards), which worked just fine in house, but when they failed me once on location...it was bye, bye. So then the search began. I was thinking about the pocket wizards, which are the industry standard, but I knew there had to be more options out there at better prices.
I was first attracted to the Skyports (http://www.elinchrom.com/), they where tiny, cool looking and you could group strobes into separate categories. But they just wouldn't work for me, apparently their triggering time is so quick they wouldn't reliably trigger my gear, so back they went.
I then came across the cybersyncs (while searching for solutions to my skyport troubles), and I'm very glad I did. First off, they were even cheaper than the skyports (score!), and they are smaller than the pocket wizards (not to mention way cheaper... double score!). To get them to work on my Sigma and Sunpak flashes (since they don't have any ports) I got the hotshoe adapter from http://www.flashzebra.com/. They fire all of my strobes, every time, and that is what I was looking for.
The receivers run on 2 AA batteries, which is nice since the are easily replaced when needed (skyports run on rechargeable lithium's). The transmitter works on a little watch sized battery. The transmitter slides onto the hotshoe and is very snug, there is no way to secure it in place, but it doesn't seem like it would go anywhere by accident (it's hard enough to remove when I want to).
It says that they will work up to 400ft, which is much shorter than the Pocket Wizards 1500ft but I can't image a time that I will ever need that. I haven't had a situation that they didn't work for me, through walls, etc.
They do have a couple millisecond "recharge" time between firing them, which might be a problem in some situations but I haven't ran into one yet. The Skyports could fire boom, boom, boom.
The down sides for me, so far are: no on/off button. Once you hit test, they go on and stay on for about 2 hours and then auto power down. In one sence it's nice since I will never forget to turn them off, but if they accidentally get bumped on in my bag, they will stay on for 2 hours. It would also be nice to be able to power them on and off and have to option to leave them on for as long as I want and not have to worry about them turning off. Next, and last down fall, no lanyard! This is such a simple add on I don't know why they didn't include one. I have had one fall and bust open from about 5 feet onto a hard wood floor, fortunately I put the batteries back in and it works fine (passed the drop test), but this shouldn't happen in the first place... with a lanyard.
Overall - I am very happy with these. Price is right and they haven't failed me yet.
I was first attracted to the Skyports (http://www.elinchrom.com/), they where tiny, cool looking and you could group strobes into separate categories. But they just wouldn't work for me, apparently their triggering time is so quick they wouldn't reliably trigger my gear, so back they went.
I then came across the cybersyncs (while searching for solutions to my skyport troubles), and I'm very glad I did. First off, they were even cheaper than the skyports (score!), and they are smaller than the pocket wizards (not to mention way cheaper... double score!). To get them to work on my Sigma and Sunpak flashes (since they don't have any ports) I got the hotshoe adapter from http://www.flashzebra.com/. They fire all of my strobes, every time, and that is what I was looking for.
The receivers run on 2 AA batteries, which is nice since the are easily replaced when needed (skyports run on rechargeable lithium's). The transmitter works on a little watch sized battery. The transmitter slides onto the hotshoe and is very snug, there is no way to secure it in place, but it doesn't seem like it would go anywhere by accident (it's hard enough to remove when I want to).
It says that they will work up to 400ft, which is much shorter than the Pocket Wizards 1500ft but I can't image a time that I will ever need that. I haven't had a situation that they didn't work for me, through walls, etc.
They do have a couple millisecond "recharge" time between firing them, which might be a problem in some situations but I haven't ran into one yet. The Skyports could fire boom, boom, boom.
The down sides for me, so far are: no on/off button. Once you hit test, they go on and stay on for about 2 hours and then auto power down. In one sence it's nice since I will never forget to turn them off, but if they accidentally get bumped on in my bag, they will stay on for 2 hours. It would also be nice to be able to power them on and off and have to option to leave them on for as long as I want and not have to worry about them turning off. Next, and last down fall, no lanyard! This is such a simple add on I don't know why they didn't include one. I have had one fall and bust open from about 5 feet onto a hard wood floor, fortunately I put the batteries back in and it works fine (passed the drop test), but this shouldn't happen in the first place... with a lanyard.
Overall - I am very happy with these. Price is right and they haven't failed me yet.
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