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Forum: Flashes, Lighting, and Studio
12-18-2014, 06:37 PM
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Paul's Cyber Commander makes more sense if have his strobes too because of the integration. The commander can control the strobes power levels remotely and other things. You only get a subset of its features if you use it in a generic role to manage strobes and in that case pretty much any other brand can do that too.
His receivers are nice and he offers you some choices. The more compact and simpler Cybersync works fine and is much cheaper. But, again, there is no ON/OFF switch for the darn thing.
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Forum: Flashes, Lighting, and Studio
12-18-2014, 05:02 PM
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Don't get me wrong. It is still a decent controller. It has a built-in flash meter which can be handy for initial strobe balance. It takes 2 AAA alkaline batteries.
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Forum: Flashes, Lighting, and Studio
12-18-2014, 02:56 PM
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I have the Cyber Commander. It's okay but has a few design problems. One, there is no "ON/OFF" switch. It's in a sleep state always. Your battery will be dead next time you use if 3 months or so go by since last you used it. So you need to take the battery out. Lame.
Secondly, Paul has taken market of the millions approach to designing the thing. That is, save a few cents on a button and that adds up over millions of units sold. Well, that may be great for Paul Buff's profits but it's bad for the end user. There are too many controls that take a combination of button presses that if you remember them it's okay. But go some time without using it and you'll be fumbling around looking for the manual when you'd rather just be using it. So, IMHO, the Commander suffers from no ON/OFF switch and not enough devoted function buttons.
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Forum: Flashes, Lighting, and Studio
12-17-2014, 08:21 PM
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400WS is pretty good starting point. That should cover a lot what you'd want to do in a studio.
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