smokemeister25 Posted October 27, 2011 Share #1 Posted October 27, 2011 Advertisement (gone after registration) was wondering about using the camera with studio strobes. i can set it for manual exposure and i have a flashmeter, so how would it be best to trigger strobes? does using the on camera pop up flash as a trigger to set off the slaves work ok or how about using a hot shoe mount flash? or maybe just a wein hot shoe adaptor that has a pc cord connection? i don't want to mount anything on the camera that might wipe out the electronics. but it seems like there should be a way... just wondering what the safest way would be. i was toying with the thought of taking some studio lit portraits with the little devil and see how they came out. i usually just use it as a point and shoot and it does well. wondered how far i could stretch it and a nifty little back up that i knew would work would be kinda cool. although it would be interesting to watch faces when i pulled it out to shoot something with. i used to go through the same thing when i would pull out my little CL on a job. but those 40 and 90mm summicron lenses were no jokes and were extremely sharp just wondered if anybody had done any of this. i would think throwing on my nikon strobe might not be the best idea for the electronics.... thanks for any experience anybody has doing this Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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koray Posted October 27, 2011 Share #2 Posted October 27, 2011 Welcome to the forum. Using the pop up flash on your D-Lux 5 is a no go AFAIK since it throws small flashes first and takes measurements and then the main flash. This fools the studio flashes and causes them to fire earlier than required. Instead you can use a wireless flash trigger (cheap ones on ebay work pretty good). Or an old flash with known low hot shoe voltage, see this list: Photo Strobe Trigger Voltages For more information, see this webpage: Strobist Good luck! Koray Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
keith_lee Posted October 28, 2011 Share #3 Posted October 28, 2011 I have found that using a hotshoe>PC connector with a D-Lux 5 will fire a studio flash unit using a PC cord. You may also use a wireless trigger such as the Pocket Wizard brand as well. Both will work to trigger a studio flash unit. The downside is with either solution is that the hot shoe is no longer available for a viewfinder accessory such as the Leica EVF-1 or the similar Panasonic DMW-LVF1. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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