Nikon SLR Cameras

What are other brands and models of Flash transceivers?

Joshua James
Joshua James

I'm looking for transceivers, because I'm planning to fire more than 1 flash wirelessly. A have a Nikon D7000, and Sb910, Sb-80dx.

I know that Pocketwizards are one, and also another is the YN-RF603 transceivers. I want you to please list down other brands and models of transceivers, because i'm looking for cheap alternatives, and no, don't push me on PW and the RF-603, PW is very expensive, and RF-603, well, not good of a performance.

Picture Taker
Picture Taker

I'm sorry for not answering your question, but PW is the only brand I can think of right now.

The reason I know nothing about them is because I use Nikon's Creative Lighting System (CLS) using the commander mode. So far, it has not let me down. I have not asked it to trigger the flash through brick walls or anything, though. You could do the same thing with your D7000 and SB-910. I don't know about the SB-80dx.

bluespeedbird
bluespeedbird

My pal swears by Cactus triggers which do appear to work well over a fairly long distance… I use Pixel triggers which allow wireless i-ttl metering with My D4 and SB-900 and slave the SB-800 off the 900.

Photographe
Photographe

I use the old Cactus trigger V4, the built quality is very cheap but they work great for me, no miss fire for me, unless the battery from flash get low. Some people had some issue with miss fire with them but I guess I'm lucky.

The Cactus V5 is a good quality/price ratio, but if money is involve you'll need a pro brand that is known to be extremely reliable, the PW.

The other cheap trigger that I know of are in the others answers.

IF you wan tan in depth review of the Cactus V5 you can read this one, it was done by a flickr member.

allonyoav
allonyoav

I use the Hahnell wireless receivers/transceivers with my D600 to my SB910 and SB700s. However, it doesn't carry TTL information so they have to be used in manual mode (not an issue for me since I generally use them in manual mode anyway).