Sony Alpha Tutorial – Setting up a Camera for Wireless Flash
Sony World Photogrpahy national award winners (Worldphoto).
Testing the Sony A7s with 4K at ISO 40,000 (PetaPixel).
April 18 A7II’s new machine Trial EVENT in Hong Kong (sony.com.hk).
Voigtlander 35mm f/1.2 Nokton II on a7R / a7S (SonyAlphaForum).
Shogun Firmware Update V6.2 (Atomos Support).
Mirrorless expert round-up (Mirrorlessons).
Contax G Sonnar 90/2.8 (SonyAlphaForum).
Eric: “Here is the link for some amazing aurora photos taken with A7R, A7S and Canon TS-E 17. You are very welcome to post this if you like it 🙂 https://www.behance.net/gallery/24366823/Chasing-Aurora. The full version of the entire Iceland journey in Chinese I posted on Mobile01.com”
Josh: “Not my pic, but if you haven’t seen it, here’s a nice meteor shot from a Sony RX100:
https://www.facebook.com/thehebrideanexplorer/photos/a.423808530971416.102928.156194614399477/968863493132581/?type=1&theater
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/meteor-over-loch-ness-this-is-how-the-photographer-captured-the-breathtaking-picture-10110765.html“
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There only advantage to using add on hot shoe flash as wireless trigger (instead of built in pop up)… is to trigger with bounce, in case on of the remote flashes cannot see the trigger flash.
In the mirrorless camera roundup one of the cons was that the A7 II had poor battery life. Well lo and behold so does its competition – the EM1 and the XT1 !!! Thats crazy highlighting only one camera for poor battery life and neglecting the rest. All of them have a CIPA rating of around 350 photos.
It is frustrating that we can’t use pop-up flashes as Wireless Commander anymore. 15 years old Minolta film cameras could pull this off.
Seems that this had an option to use popup as wireless commander. Dont know, i use nex7, it doesnt have this option, seems they have put it in a6000
As far as I know, it still doesn’t have it.
The video thumbnail clearly shows the menu saying “pop up the built in flash” in wireless mode. I would assume it does work in a6000.
Nope, A6000 doesn’t have it either. Wireless function only works if you have 2 flash guns with one attached to the camera acting as the controller.
I don’t get why Sony haven’t added this yet; even cheap/old m4/3 body like the E-PL1 can do wireless flash control from it’s popup flash.
I hope A7000 will have it.
I was mislead than. Thought it must have it, because when he got into wireless mode, the UI said “pop up the built in flash to fire”. On nex7, if i use popup, the wireless option is grayed out.
As of a7000, i hope it will have some radio trigger built in, that doesnt seem too hard, and would be much better than optical communication.
Maybe there is not enough room to bring up a capacitor to do these exact morse-like flash patterns to remote control the other flashes?
anyone know how to use wireless trigger ????? no option in drive mode anymore