Canon 580EXll strobes on location

[draymorton]

Ah, so THAT'S why I see guys shooting with the flash swiveled backwards on their cameras.

So you're saying you can control the output of each speedlite as long as you have one in the hotshoe? I thought only Nikon offered that feature.

Cybersyncs were a good choice. That's what I use and they've worked flawlessly. A lot of folks seem to use Radio Poppers and swear by them. Never understood the advantages of the RPs.

[gahspidy]

So you're saying you an control the output of each speedlite as long as you have one in the hotshoe? I thought only Nikon offered that feature.

Cybersyncs were a good choice. That's what I use and they've worked flawlessly. A lot of folks seem to use Radio Poppers and swear by them. Never understood the advantages of the RPs.

Yup, i am able to control each speedlite, set them up in groups if desired, control zoom, output, manual or ETT-L, ratios all from the menu screen on the 5Dmkll The problem is the IR signal is lousy in certain situations. For this self portrait, I did not seem to have an issue with flash communicating with eachother. However, the other day i was in another location trying to set up a shot and was very limited as to where i could place my light because they were not connectiong very well. Turned out i had to have the light very close the the camera mounted 580. Frustrating, and so I decided to go with the Cybersync. Glad to know you have good experiecne with them. I did not want to plug in the super cheap Chinese made radios into my 3,000.00 camera body I heard some stories about having to resolder poor connections with some of these offerings. . .
Paul Buff (Alien Bees) has a new controller out called the Cyber Commander
http://www.white-lightning.com/cybersyncplus.html
This looks like a highly ambitious system but if it works as they intend it would be an amazing studio investment, I think.