Remote slave trigger batch!

[owfotograaf 14]

BAD NEWS, :)

BECAUSE A PROBLEM WITH THE LAST ALU PART AL THE TRIGGERS ARE FOR TRASH!!!! THE "screw-thread" is wrong!

I AM NOT SO HAPPY WITH THAT AND WILL CONTACT MY SUPPLIER TOMORROW.

 

Photo after new threading but anodisation is gone so not for selling.

 

MORE NEWS SOON

 

KIND REGARDS,

HEDWIG

 

PS: all the orders that have been done, have been repaid with paypal.

Edited April 17, 2011 by owfotograaf

[owfotograaf 14]

Third and hoop fully a good batch off triggers,

 

The triggers where ready but at the last moment i noticed that the ALU part was not OK. (screw-thread was not good!)

 

So, the supplier of the parts promised me today that he will make the part again before the end of April 2011

I hope you can wait all another 2 weeks for the triggerfish.

 

Hedwig.

[owfotograaf 14]

So, the supplier of the parts promised me today that he will make the part again before the end of April 2011

I hope you can wait all another 2 weeks for the triggerfish.

Hedwig.

The triggers will be ready in the middle of next week, i hope

Edited April 29, 2011 by owfotograaf

[owfotograaf 14]

Finally the ALU part has arrived and is good now!

Triggers are ready to ship.

Kind regards | Hedwig.

triggerfish@telenet.be

 

Links edited and topics merged: Admin.

Edited May 19, 2011 by adamhanlon

[Panda 3]

Mine arrived yesterday. Many thanks Hedwig, I love it!

Edited May 19, 2011 by Panda

[owfotograaf 14]

An example of using the trigger in Scotland Eyemouth.

 

[Alex_Mustard 0]

Thats a great shot. Do you have one where the diver is a little higher against the green?

[owfotograaf 14]

Thats a great shot. Do you have one where the diver is a little higher against the green?

 

Thanks Alex

yes i have shots with the model i a different position, closer - upright position and with too bright divelight

but i have to use them for report in a Dutch magazine.

Spent 60' at the cathedral, water was 8°C and model was frozen

[errbrr 73]

My triggerfish arrived safely a while back and I took one for the first dive yesterday. The main problem I had with the HW slave sensors is that they would not fire the strobe in ambient light (or even in a cave with too many bright torches around). I was very happy to confirm that this wasn't a problem for the triggerfish. Even with green vis, there was lots of sunlight under this shallow pier, and the inon fired reliably throughout the test dive.

 

You can see the remote strobe backlighting the rock under the diver in the shot below. Thanks Hedwig! I'm looking forward to using the triggerfish on some wrecks, hopefully in nicer vis.

[serge.ego 0]

Did some testing in my pond... to be sure they are waterproof

 

Used the Sea&Sea YS-250 and YS-110a strobes. External flash (pointing to heaven...) on camera and turned off TTL in camera...

Next test will be in open water

 

 

 

[owfotograaf 14]

Did some testing in my pond... to be sure they are waterproof

 

Used the Sea&Sea YS-250 and YS-110a strobes. External flash (pointing to heaven...) on camera and turned off TTL in camera...

Next test will be in open water

 

Serge is little bit addicted to diving

Hope we can try them next Sunday at wrecks at the Nortsea, when the weather conditions hopefully are good.

[christianh 1]

I'm about to attach the triggerfish + strobe on a Gorilla-pod using ULCS gear, as I think others in this post have done as well.

My question is,what kind of ball adapter do you mount on the gorilla pod? ULCS AD-1420 female ball adapter, is that the one?

[owfotograaf 14]

I'm about to attach the triggerfish + strobe on a Gorilla-pod using ULCS gear, as I think others in this post have done as well.

My question is,what kind of ball adapter do you mount on the gorilla pod? ULCS AD-1420 female ball adapter, is that the one?

 

Yes, i think so, is has to be one with 1/4" male thread inside.

[owfotograaf 14]

An example of using the trigger in Scotland Eyemouth.

 

 

Triggerset used with the picture:

 

[owfotograaf 14]

Additional info for the triggers.

They not seem to work with the YS-90DX and YS30. I don't have them, but i think it is for sure a power problem.

With the YS250 they don't work on all strobes????? But the strobe itself is also not reliable, especially the last batch.

So be sure that you can draw the power out off the ready signal. (RDY)

 

[mo2vation 5]

Some recent shots with the Tfish.

 

 

Diver mounted back firing, plus ground mounted up-firing. Had her back into an impossible place - in the surge we got tangled up just a little bit as we shot this series...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TFish with my Fiber Optic Snoot

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Using TFish to trigger strobe beneath kelp to achieve light table effect on a Hermissenda

 

 

 

 

I take out 2 or 3 of these rigs on every dive. Done hundreds of shots with the TFish.

 

Love them!

 

 

 

-Ken

Edited August 10, 2011 by mo2vation

[owfotograaf 14]

Just back from Maldives.

Triggerfish use!

 

 

[leighdu 0]

Nice work!

 

I recently tried using my new triggers, I was shooting in a lake and it was freezing! so i didnt have too much tiem to play with them and move them around but here is 1 shot.

 

 

[errbrr 73]

Nice shots!

 

Hediwg, do you have any triggerfish left? On a recent trip I discovered my first problem with a triggerfish strobe - it's not attached to the camera. My remote strobe with triggerfish attached disappeared at the end of the trip, and hasn't been rediscovered...I'd love to buy a replacement.

 

Cheers,

 

Liz

[Chriso 0]

Nice shots!

 

Hediwg, do you have any triggerfish left? On a recent trip I discovered my first problem with a triggerfish strobe - it's not attached to the camera. My remote strobe with triggerfish attached disappeared at the end of the trip, and hasn't been rediscovered...I'd love to buy a replacement.

 

Cheers,

 

Liz

 

Hi Liz

If there are some left and if you are planning on getting some over please let me know, I will take a couple as well.

[mo2vation 5]

My latest batch from this weekend.

 

We dived the Yukon and the Ruby E in San Diego. I've been waiting on this trip for a few weeks.

 

Friday late afternoon, reports started pouring in of amazing viz on the Yukon. I was getting so excited, as I waited for the clock to strike 5:30 and I could blast south and prepare for a day on these wrecks.

 

My plan was to revisit the interior of the Yukon - just inside some of the big square hatches, and bring along 3 or 4 remotely triggered strobes ("pixars") to light the place up. it gave me a chance to finally try out the remote strobes for interior shots.

 

I've been doing exteriors with them for awhile - now I finally got to do some interiors.

 

I've built 4 remote strobe rigs, or "pixars" (named by my buddy for their resemblance to the movie company Icon) are standard Ikelite DS125's mounted to an aluminum Gorilla Pod, and fired via an optical sensor (Hedwig's amazing "triggerfish").

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This would be my first time using the pixars in a big interior space. I've been using them outside, mostly to drive my Fiber Optic snoots and for some cool kelp effects - but where these should shine is on a confined, dark, large space like the Yukon!

 

After preparing all the gear the night before, I give it all another run through prior to splashing. The plan is simple:

 

• Scoot along and find a suitable opening -hopefully one with cables, ropes or something near the outside that can serve as a hitching post for the scoots
  
• Crawl into the wreck at 100 FSW, laden with a camera, an AL40 and a lobster bag filled with Pixars - assess the situation, position Claudette, set up the strobes, take some test shots, tweek the lighting a time or two, take the real shots, then take down
  
• If there's NDL time and gas left, move UP to the Funnel (about 80 FSW), feed a pixar down the funnel, secure so I don't lose it, and light the thing up like a Christmas tree and get some shots.
  

 

 

Ambitious? Oh yes. But I'm not here that much, so I want to make the most of these dives!

 

 

 

Inferior interior from Dive 1 - a tiny pop from a pixar behind the box on the right, the rest is all on-camera strobe. The pixar on her back wasn't firing consistently - I have a bad sync cord on that one.

 

 

Funnel Test shot from Dive 1 - who knew this thing was split into two chambers?? So bogus. I'll light it next time with two remote strobes. Sheephead checking out the light! I didn't PS out the Pixar so you could see how I lit this thing.

 

 

Buddy into position against Funnel. I want to see how far away I can be and still make this thing fire. This is just a test shot so its overexposed, etc, etc... I'm sad I wasn't able to return on dive 2 and get these right. Oh well... its not the first time NDL has squashed one of my good ideas.

 

 

Yukon interior shot from Dive 2 using 5 strobes:

• two on camera
  
• one remote on the diver's back pointing straight up
  
• one remote (set right) using the floor (right wall) as bounce to fill
  
• one remote about 25 feet away, behind the diver lighting up the back wall and offering a halo to the diver.
  

Unfortunately, in this shot the Diver was blow up a little bit by the inflow surge right as I was shooting, so the far away remote is visible just under her. Still - I love this shot.

 

 

At the end of Dive 2, on our stops I grabbed a shot of Tom and Claudette getting their Glove on. No triggerfish... just a fun goofy shot.

 

 

 

The Ruby E was a dusty, surgey mess by the time we got there. This was a shot from the wheelhouse - two pixars free standing. One behind the hole in the wall on the left, one behind the door. Had to get buddy very close to the floor to try to get a halo effect in the dust cloud. I'm going to work on this a little more - but this could be a neat effect when I get it dialed in.

 

 

 

 

Fun stuff!

 

Thanks, Hedwig!!

[newmanl 15]

owfotograaf,

 

Brilliant work - very creative! I love the second image.

 

Lee

[errbrr 73]

I guess all the ocean stuff is nice...but the best place for a triggerfish is underwater, underground! I've had some great dives over the last week in the caves here. Every off camera strobe added to the mix adds to the complexity, but the triggerfish are firing the strobes much more reliably than the other slave sensors I've been using.

 

This one was with two strobes on camera and two strobes on my diver - one hand held and one on his back:

 

This was one of my first dives were I intended to put strobes down in the cave, then take the picture. Getting things positioned appropriately without stirring up enough silt to create a huge backscatter halo around each strobe was a challenge, but when it works the results are cool.

 

For reference, here's what happens when the strobe battery goes flat - yes, there is a diver hiding in the dark there somewhere. We were just under 1km from home, and I really needed some new batteries...

[owfotograaf 14]

I guess all the ocean stuff is nice...but the best place for a triggerfish is underwater, underground! I've had some great dives over the last week in the caves here. Every off camera strobe added to the mix adds to the complexity, but the triggerfish are firing the strobes much more reliably than the other slave sensors I've been using.

Great pictures Liz!

Hope to do some cave dives also, but first i have to follow a good course!

Edited October 3, 2011 by owfotograaf

[Adrian Schoene 0]

Hi,

 

I want one as well as the solution from subtronic is not working very good. Do you still sell them?

 

Thank you.

 

Best Regards,

Adrian