2 things.
1. Do not get Gadget Infinity V2(s) Triggers (PT-04) or identical ones if you plan to use your flash on a light stand with a umbrella! 2. Do not get Gadget Infinity V2(s) Triggers (PT-04) or identical ones if you plan to use your flash on a light stand with a umbrella!
Yes I know I repeated myself but its stressing a point! If you plan on going wireless and to use an umbrella (kind of the point of going wireless\offcamera) do not get these triggers! Im not saying theres anything wrong with them they just arent your best option when it comes to cheap wireless triggers. 1. They break very easily 2. They put the flash way to high up when put on top of a lightstand+umbrella holder to be of much use. In the standard position your shooting over the umbrella, and to shoot into the umbrella properly you will need to move it downwards using the receivers, putting lots of strain on it. Often leading to broken receivers. Once youve tried them this way you will probably decide to just use the PC sync instead of the hotshoe, which defeats the whole purpose of getting them in the first place (cheap triggers that use hotshoes, as your flash may not have a PC sync). Besides being counter intuitive you have to rely on the pc port on your flash which to be quite honest isn't something I would trust. Unless of course your using a screwlock pc cable which helps but isn't really worth it.
So if you want to go wireless with the cheap radio triggers, get the 16 Channel ones (sometimes sold in a 4 channel version for less) off ebay. Theres a buyer in the US that sells them for under $20+shipping. Just make sure its the one that uses AAA's in the receiver instead of AC power and uses the 1/4" phone plug. The reason you want to get these is 1. They use AAA's in the receiver instead of expensive CR2's I believe (?) 2. They have a 1/4" phone plug. These plugs are built to last! Remember the good old switch boards? Guess what type of plug they relied on to get the job done? Not a pc jack anyway!
Now your probably asking how your going to connect that to your flash? With one of
these or
these. Depending what connection your flash has you would need one of those (or not if your using a studio strobe that has 1/4" jack). It would sit under your flash or plug into the pc port, plug into your trigger and hang it off your umbrella PW style. Now your flash is at the "correct" height on the umbrella holder, you dont have to rely on your trigger for moving your strobe around, you rely on the umbrella holder which was made do be relied on! Pop the transmitter on your hotshoe and your good to go!
Enjoy!
Thanks
PS. IMPORTANT - If you get the hotshoe - 1/4" plug adapter make sure that your umbrella holder can switch the standard hotshoe for a 1/4" 20 screw on thread to screw the adapter on where the hotshoe would normally sit. If your planning on getting a holder still I know the one FlashZebra sells has it, and Impact Adapter sold by B&H ($13.95 I believe) has it as well. But many of the ebay ones DO NOT so make sure.