Originally Posted by BrendanPK
THe PW actualy have been tested to over 3/4mi by some. Now Firing is not 100% and you have to be line of sight.
However I will tell you that my PW and others have no problem hitting 1000' or so and have set up in massive buildings w/ interference before too no prob unless low batt.
I want to try the radiopopper, they should work w/ Pentax.
These slaves you tested are very cool for the average guy and best of all they are not on the PW channels so you dont have to do the channel dance when at games etc.
If it is misfiring at those distances, then the claimed long range isn't very valuable ... especially at $360+ for a set of a transmitter and a receiver. Also, I wonder about those claiming 1000' of range. That's well over 300 yards ... where do you actually go test those distances? At an airstrip? How did you measure the 1000' of distance? And those claiming to have tested over 3/4mi? I do wonder about their credibility given not only 3/4mi (= 0.75mi) is well beyond the range claimed by Pocket Wizard (1600' = 0.3 mi) but again, where did that person test it and how did that person measure such a distance? At that distance, would that person even be able to see the flash light?
Pocket Wizard claim's 1600' of range. If it is successfully triggering at 1000', that's success at 62% of the claimed range. Flashwaves triggers at 120' and the claimed range is about 150'. So, that's success at 80% of the claimed distance, which is not too bad.
Anyhow, for an average guy who shoots portraits within a shouting distance, getting PW seems rather like buying an F1 race car for the purposes of commuting to an office 2 blocks away.