Canon off-camera second curtain sync options in 2024
August 20, 2024 11:45 AM Subscribe
What's the best value way to do off-camera second-curtain sync (aka rear-curtain sync aka 2CS) on a Eos 5D Mk III in 2024?
Shot a music festival last weekend and was frustrated with my current 5D Mk III/Phottix Ares/Lumipro LP180. I usually just hold the flash/speedlight off with my left hand, so I'm not looking for a studio strobe set up. The TTL stuff is mostly gravy; I do fine with TV and manual flash setting.
Additional questions: I have a fair amount of film gear. My assumption would be that there should be some way to set a delay on a flash trigger (but not the Ares), but that I'd have to manually set it against the exposure time to make sure I was getting the same shutter-drag effect and not the reverse motion lines. I assume hotshoes don't actually communicate the shutter speed out; it would have to be set independently. Is there anything out there that would be useful like that? The only way I've learned to do it is with pretty long exposures (>=1sec) and I'd like to get something that could be used for more quickly moving scenes.
Shot a music festival last weekend and was frustrated with my current 5D Mk III/Phottix Ares/Lumipro LP180. I usually just hold the flash/speedlight off with my left hand, so I'm not looking for a studio strobe set up. The TTL stuff is mostly gravy; I do fine with TV and manual flash setting.
Additional questions: I have a fair amount of film gear. My assumption would be that there should be some way to set a delay on a flash trigger (but not the Ares), but that I'd have to manually set it against the exposure time to make sure I was getting the same shutter-drag effect and not the reverse motion lines. I assume hotshoes don't actually communicate the shutter speed out; it would have to be set independently. Is there anything out there that would be useful like that? The only way I've learned to do it is with pretty long exposures (>=1sec) and I'd like to get something that could be used for more quickly moving scenes.
Response by poster: I've seen that, it was part of what prompted this question.
Those are primarily aimed at using slaved strobes for wedding shooting, but require some specific models of Pocket Wizard triggers, and are only tested with some pretty expensive speed lights (the units he uses cost about $3000 each).
posted by klangklangston at 9:27 PM on August 22
Those are primarily aimed at using slaved strobes for wedding shooting, but require some specific models of Pocket Wizard triggers, and are only tested with some pretty expensive speed lights (the units he uses cost about $3000 each).
posted by klangklangston at 9:27 PM on August 22
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(I have a Nikon DSLR and Z system, so I can't directly confirm that it works)
posted by SegFaultCoreDump at 12:48 PM on August 20