Finally!
PocketWizard is happy to announce they have received a file on record with Industry Canada for the legal sale of the MiniTT1 and FlexTT5 in Canada.
What does this mean?
PocketWizard MiniTT1's and FlexTT5's are now available for sale in Canada.
From: http://www.pocketwizard.com/news_events/news/canadian_approval/
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If you read the manual, you’ll find out that there are several modes of operation where a 580EX must be in the hot-shoe of the on-camera PW, for no other role than as a data input device. This applies regardless of the camera underneath, so it’s safe to say that there are a lot of improvements yet to come.
The range issues are disappointing, no doubt, but PW would shoot themselves in the foot if they jumped to a frequency that didn’t work with their classic units. The classic units had a distance advantage since they weren’t hot-shoe mount, and from the sounds of it Canon has been letting the RF noise emissions climb upward with new products. Who’s fault is that?
Ed, you are aware that radiopoppers require the existing E-TTL II infrastructure to be in place. ie, regardless of the camera there must be a commander unit, be it a ST-E2 or a 550EX/580EX I or II with a radio popper transmitter attached to it attached to the camera either in the hot shoe or via TTL cord. As such radiopoppers do not have any compatibility problems, they’re just more expensive, though they are more effective, better range and slightly better reliability.
I believe the now released firmware for the pocketwizards have fixed the compatability with the 5D mk II
The big difference between them is that the pocket wizard reads the TTL signal from the camera. The radiopoppers read the IR signal from the commander unit converts that into radio signal and the radiopopper receiver at the other end reconverts it into IR signal, the radiopopper system sortof tries to impersonate a camera at the other end, and has to read the electrical signals from the camera, which varies some body to body (apparently).
I think that Canon needs to design for a lot less RF noise in their next flash model unless they want to loose additional customers to Nikon. Some shooters out there would really like to have the freedom of wireless ETTL (wedding photogs for one I guess), but wrapping their flashes in mesh or settle for 30 feet doesn’t seem like an option to me.
For Canon to be ignorant of the problems between their products and the new Pocketwizards looks to me like a bad idea. After all Pocketwizards are still the main choice for professional shooters and cameras like the 5D and 1D MK X are targeted at those people in general.
my guess on this is quite the opposite actually. the newer 430 does not have this issue and i would assume that future canon flashes will not as well…
Canon designed their flashes years ago, long before PW came along and selected the wrong frequencies for their units. When they were mounted off camera, the intereference was minimal, now with on-camera mounting, its very bad. This problem doesn’t apply to Radio Poppers which is better engineered.
As a electrical engineer, I do know that the frequencies and type of modulation play a big part in getting a clean signal thru a world that is full of electrical noise.
I would not put the problem on Canon, or at least, not all of it.