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I mean the camera sends the signal to fire the flash before the shutter closes and that's all the flash needs to do.
In ettl mode, the flash sends the command signals with the low-power pre-flash before the shutter *opens* - it probably tells the slave flashes "wait this time, then fire with this strength". The pre-flash isn't only for flash power calculation, that's why you need to have a pre-flash in optical mode even if all flashes are set to manual - and the new rt mode seems to be a 1:1 copy but with radio transmission.
But it is indeed a bit mysterious why slave flashes would need a dedicated "2nd curtain sync" capability for this, probably their fw doesn't allow them to wait for a longer time than 1st curtain sync (mere speculation)
Well, the flash must support second or rear curtain sync too, or it isn't there to use.
Pixel soldier triggers don't support rear curtain, hss, etc. Your trigger needs to support it, and so does your flash.
You'd need Pixel Kings, YongNuo 622c, or similar triggers that have that capability. If you're on a budget, I suggest the YN622c trigger set. It's cheaper and you get more bang for your buck than the kings, and with the right flash, supports menu setting flash changes.
Keep your pixel soldiers though, in case you want to remote trigger your camera/flash chain (i.e. Your pixel soldier plugs into only the shutter release port, tells the camera to fire remotely, which fires the YN622 or pixel king or whatever trigger in the hotshoe, which sets off your flash(es).
(Especially considering how much money I threw at this problem by now)
Am I the only one who thinks $10 a month is a pretty good price for PS?
In response to other postings regarding Scott Kelby's Q&A - Scott says that at some point in the future if you don't like an increase in price you can simply stop paying. This is utter nonsense since you then lose access to your data!
That is utter nonsense. If you decide to stop your subscription just batch convert your PSD's to an open format.
Adobe and many other companies have to say this in their product agreement for legal purposes but it doesn't mean it'll do that. Can you think about the reason why Adobe may not like you, a customer who pays money buying their products, and terminate your account? It just doesn't make sense. You drive your car and police may give you a ticket if you fail to follow the rules. That's the same here, do you job, have fun editing your images for personal or commercial purposes and everybody would be happy. It reminds me of my neighbors who talk over Skype but are concerned that FBI would listen to their conversations. Come on!
P.S. I hope I'm not too naive
I bet if you read the license agreement of most of the other software, you'll be very surprised to know it's not only Adobe who owns you.
Yeah, but 99% of the time, the software is on a disk and is virtually in-enforceable. Thus, gives the end user's the power but adobe CC reverses all that.
Well, as an already registered user I don't mind this, but why are you not implementing a Q&A process? Ask a specific question during the sign-up and tell the users that the answer is on your help site and not on the register page. Anybody answering that question correctly will have been a human and not a bot. Should weed out quite a bit of the bots. (Got rid of 99.99% of all SPAM accounts on my two forums)Those who sign up must answer two questions. Robots unfortunately know this and have a ton of questions and answers programmed in to them. They are always one step ahead.
There are huge halls full of people working for spam companies who do nothing but create accounts. I mentioned Robots, but its those human assisted robots that are the issue.
They concentrate on the larger web sites because that's where the exposure is.
We have other measures taken that keep them from posting, but they are loading up the server with almost 1/2 million user accounts, and 90% of the online users were spammers. That's already down to 10% or less.
Only Pixel's "King" triggers support E-TTL which is required for 2nd curtain sync. For those you would just need to set "Wireless Func." to "Disable" in the flash functions menu on the camera, same as with yongnuo YN622C. But the pixel soldier is not a "TTL" trigger so AFAIK it can't support 2nd curtain sync.
The very good and extremely reasonably priced Yongnuo radio triggers also do remote 2nd curtain sync, though with some constraints imposed by the old Canon ettl2 protocol - but it does work, so that would/will be my personal choice (until Canon comes up with a ettl3 protocol with remote zoom and 2nd curtain sync...)
