The Phottix Laso triggers can help your flashes do HSS to 1/8000th. When using these triggers and the flashes in high speed sync mode, you’ll need to remember just how battery draining HSS is. It’s great as it the flash exposure compensation and the manual flash control. So how is the TTL quality? I’ve always believed that Phottix has nailed TTL with Canon even better than Profoto has, and that statement still stands. Once that is done, you’ve got full control over the flashes with no real problems. Setting the flashes manually is also a possibility if you set them to be so via the transmitter. However, they worked fine with these triggers. Then I remembered that a very long time ago, I dropped my Canon flashes so they were a bit wonky to begin with. In fact, I only changed the settings on these once during the review period.ĭuring the review, I thought that I ran into a reliability issue involving transmission and the flashes instead popping at full power instead of the TTL that I set it to. The receivers have a much smaller screen and much less to fuss about. It just means you need to pay more attention to the screen. You’ve got buttons that accomplish specific tasks but you also have buttons designated to new functions depending on what menu you’re in. The new settings and controls look very much like what Phottix did with the Indra500 TTL monolight. Ease of UseĬontrolling the receiver can be done via the transmitter. To that end, even the buttons feel nice and the layout of everything is simple to navigate. These triggers are built overall incredibly well and there is very little to complain about. Squeeze the triggers as hard as you can, but you won’t feel any sort of emptiness or cheapness to their build. This screen displays lots of information pertaining to the way that the information is being transmitted to the flashes. It has buttons that function to do different tasks and also a giant LCD screen. The transmitter is much more complicated. Phottix doesn’t offer many firmware updates though. On the other side of the receiver is a USB port that lets you do firmware updates to the receiver. Below this area though is a cold shoe with a lock to secure it onto a light stand. On one side of the receiver is a DC in port and a flash port. Below this is the LCD screen, buttons and that’s really about it. The receiver has not only the Phottix Laso branding prominently displayed, but also has a hot shoe to hold your Canon flash. One is dominated by a massive LCD screen while the other has a smaller screen and mostly functions to do what the other tells it to do. The Phottix Laso triggers consist of a transmitter and a receiver. Specs for the Receivers taken from B&H Photo for $99.95 Exposure Control Specs for the Transmitter taken from B&H Photo for $159.95 Exposure Control The Phottix Laso triggers were tested with the Canon 580 EX II, 430 EX II, Canon 6D, Sigma 35mm f1.4 Art, and the Canon 35mm f1.4 L II. They look much more high end but share the very simple ease of use that the previous triggers from Phottix did. These triggers are much different from what the public is used to seeing from Phottix. But this year, they announced the Phottix Laso triggers: specifically designed to work with Canon brand flashes with Nikon support coming. The company built its name starting with the Odin triggers, and from there they expanded to flashes, light modifiers and most recently monolights. Phottix for years now have been known as a company that offers much of what Nikon and Canon do at a more affordable price point and with pretty good build quality.
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