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            Optical Slave Trigger for Hot Shoe Flash / Wireless ( Not a hot shoe adapter )

 Optical Slave Trigger ( This item is not a hot shoe adapter )

This slave trigger might not be compatible with Canon 430EX and 580EX.  The problem is it fires the first time and then flash has to be turned off/on  or the device removed and re-attached to get it to work again.

• Up for auction is a brand new JPSlave remote optical slave trigger for shoe mount flash, compact and sturdy with a standard hot shoe seat on the top and a standard 1/4"-20 thread screw socket for tripod on the bottom. It mounts between a portable flash and a tripod. No connecting wire needed. Size= 30x30x30mm. Weight= 0.7 oz.

  Effective range: 60ft/18m

  Effective range expands if the main flash is powerful enough, the equation being: effective range = flash GN number divided by 2.

• This slave trigger gets its working power from the flash attached to it and therefore it is battery-free.

• This solid state slave trigger triggers the flash attached to it the moment it "sees" the first flash light from a main flash (either from a camera flash or a studio strobe). It is frequently used by both pro and amateur photographers to improve their flash shot.

• Simply slide a shoe mount flash (you will see a little metal nipple underneath your flash unit) onto the top of this slave trigger and you have a slave flash ready to be used as:

  Fill light -- to fill or soften unwanted shadows of the subject, or accent the subject.

  Hair light -- to illuminate the hair of the subject for great details to achieve artistic/dramatic effects.

  Background light -- to separate the subject from the background, often creating a halo effect around the subject.

Attention digital camera users:

Some digital cameras fire a pre-flash just micro-seconds before the main flash.

Deactivate the red-eye function if your camera uses pre-flash red-eye deduction mode. Or set your camera in Manual Flash Mode.

The two photos below are taken with a Sony Cybershot digital camera. The first one with only built-in flash fired*and the second one with a couple of external slave flashes triggered by our slave trigger.

* Digital camera's built-in flash is always underpowered and tends to give poor quality photos on indoor or dim light shot and therefore one or more slave flashes are always a must for serious amateur and pro photographers.