Digital Rebel and Strobes?

[Dallas]

I am very new to this so this question may be a stupid question. I own a Cannon 8.0 Digital Rebel. I would like to to create a small home studio to take pictures for family and friends. My question is how do I attach strobes to my camera? What is the cheapest and what is the best ways of doing so? Also, could someone recommend a good and inexpensive lighting kit. Thanks.

[Canuck935]

You can get an adapter that plugs into the hot shoe and has a sync port on it. You can also get a radio slave kit. This way you aren't attached to wires and more importantly you won't have to worry about triggering voltage. As far as lighting set up, you can get a couple cheap light stands and umbrella's, and throw in a couple old but powerful flashguns (make sure they can be set manually) that can be had for cheap on ebay.

[Photo-John]

Radio slaves are the slickest way to go. PocketWizards are the standard. But there are a lot of alternatives. And there are also infrared optical slaves. Wein makes the most common ones, I believe. Aside from using a cable mounted to your hotshoe, the Wein infrared slaves will be the cheapest way to do it. Wein also makes the most common hotshoe to strobe sync cord adapter.

[Dallas]

Thanks for the info.