Originally Posted by bigben91682
The one advantage I could see from the Skyports would be the group feature. If you are shooting a wedding reception, you can select which lights to fire, or select all of them. That's appealing to me, but not a deal-maker....
I think one way to do this with any other system would be to throw more hardware at it. I think you can use a receiver to trigger a transmitter to create a relay on all the systems, so splitting the RF channels between flash groups seems possible.
For example, if you had five receivers, and two transmitters, you could have two pairs of receivers, two groups, each pair set up on a different channel, and one receiver hooked up to the other transmitter to create the relay.
On the camera transmitter, just changing channels would get you one pair or the other firing. To have them all fire, you would need to have the relay receiver listen to the channel the camera transmitter uses, the camera transmitter triggers one pair of flashes, and have the relay transmitter set to use the other channel, triggering the other pair. When the relay isn't needed just change the relay receiver to listen on a unused channel. I think even the Cactus V2 have four channels to work with.
Anyone ever tried this?
Thank you
Russell