Though luck with Elinchrom, if tehy werent that expensive they could get away with it but now...

When the cactus v4 of my work it does sync down to 1/180 without a problem but when it doesn't work 1/15, it does however fire everytime, I must give them that

It seems it's quite an isolated problem, just a bad product so hopefully some new ones will solve it.

Thank you Paul, good to see they work great for you.

I can try it out on the KX a Tuesday so will do that, but like you said I don't trust them anymore and I've reports of other K10D users that they work correctly for them so will get some new ones.

And yes will take my camera with me to show them the problem and so that I can test the new ones.


btw, The problem does seem to be the temperature.
Here in the computer room it is slightly warmer and they work perfectly here but in the living room where it's 19 degrees Celsius, (I think two degrees colder) they don't work.

19 degrees is just such a high temperature that it is really silly, so can't except that... will make sure they are cold when I try them in the shop or else they might work

Skyport is expensive though.
Falcon Eyes RF 425DHS is a tiny bit more expensive then Cactus.

You can also use other trigers without a hotshoe, if you have the right connector.
If you can't do that with you flash there are hot shoe adapters for that, where you simply can plug in the cable, they aren't that expensive.

It seems my problem is quite rare so will just switch the set over for a new pair of cactus v4, I bought them a Friday so shouldn't be a problem.

Like greytops says.

They are always the "pro" lenses, so wider aperture better optictical performance etc. and you pay for that.

Nope, but congratulation for the 10,000 member PU forum.
Btw most of the time there is a gift involved if your member 10,000 right? ... k7 maybe?

Yes the flash does work as it should Pink, every mode.

It's a complete set so will return the TX & RX for a complete new one just to be on the save side.

I did call the shop and they know about the wrong tripod but they said that I could used it till I return it so don't think it will be a problem, I bought them a friday.

Thank you James

Explain me this, at the beginning it flash at 1/15 and i lay it down for 15 minutes and then it sync up to 1/180, didn't touch or moved anything.

About temperature i'm sceptical, they haven't been out of the house for 48hours and if 19 degrees Celsius is too cold for them then I don't want them since they won't be usable.

Also the strange thing is if I press the test button it fires instantly and if the batteries are low it should indicate that by flashing the led on and off.

I think the TX doesn't read the trigger of my camera correctly, with other triggers/flashes I never had a problem.

No they ain't from Ebay but from the shop I also got the wrong light stand from
They are cactus v4.

Here there are uncompressed samples you can download link

Of course Bret simply search for it.

http://www.vimeo.com/7496240
http://www.vimeo.com/6909971

No I don't think it would replace your camcorder, with the lens control that you have with the DSLR and the lack of AF makes it feel very different.

I've tried the movie mode on the KX of my uncle.
It surely is fun to do but it's much more just for creative then simply recording that you do with your camcorder.

It's a bit like comparing a point&shoot with a DSLR.

ps. this also a very nice movie, don't forget to watch it at fullscreen size and that HD is on.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vesXmMeI8o

You can keep photoshop CS3 if you shoot in DNG, another solution would be is to get a rawconverter like Silkypix, lightroom, phaseone, etc.
Those are cheaper and enables you to do what you need to get a good finished photo and you can keep CS3 for the special/creative imaging stuff.

I myself use Lightroom 2 with CS4 and those two work very well together, with one command you can open the file from lightroom in photoshop and do your thing there, surely if you convert the RAW file to DNG it works splendidly in photoshop, it's like using a PSD file, you don't need to convert your file to PSD or TIFF like you would sometimes with PEF if you do HDR stacking for example.