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Vertigo · 29 Mar 2015 at 07:47

DeathStorm said:
Was kinda funny seeing all the amateurs setting off the flashes on stage, don't know why the guy there had the optical sensor on.

On the Bowens stage you mean? Yeah I was facing the main softbox at one point and it kept going off in my face which was very annoying.

-TA- · 30 Mar 2015 at 12:14

^ There was probably a lot of wireless triggering going on, Only so many channels and interference etc, Bowens wireless triggers are fairly basic!

Vertigo · 30 Mar 2015 at 15:21

-TA- said:
^ There was probably a lot of wireless triggering going on, Only so many channels and interference etc, Bowens wireless triggers are fairly basic!

Whilst systems like that in the Canon 600EX-RT units have an ID you can set in addition to the wireless channel to avoid conflicts, this is only really necessary or useful when using mobile flash "in the field". Stuff like Bowens is intended mainly for studio use where the likelyhood of interference is remote and thus a more basic system is more than adequate. Obviously doesn't help at a show with hundreds of 'togs snapping away though

-TA- · 30 Mar 2015 at 15:51

Indeed, Bowens system works fine for me, only once had some rouge triggers at one wedding venue, I blamed the DJ!

DeathStorm · 30 Mar 2015 at 23:51

-TA- said:
^ There was probably a lot of wireless triggering going on, Only so many channels and interference etc, Bowens wireless triggers are fairly basic!

Pretty sure it was just the optical sensor being triggered as most of the people at the Bowens stage appeared to have no experience of studio heads (so unlikely to be running around with a radio trigger) and it didn't happen later in the day.

Tysonator · 13 Apr 2015 at 12:33

DeathStorm said:
It's only an hour by train, you can barely make it from one side of London to the other in that time!

I think the cost with a discount card is apx £40 from Essex to NEC.
If there is more than 2 people going to NEC then best to drive.
What ruins it for the train is the cost, way, way to expensive :mad:

-TA- · 13 Apr 2015 at 12:53

DeathStorm said:
Pretty sure it was just the optical sensor being triggered as most of the people at the Bowens stage appeared to have no experience of studio heads (so unlikely to be running around with a radio trigger) and it didn't happen later in the day.

My point being using wireless triggering could have been worse, so using the simple optical might have been more reliable!

DeathStorm · 16 Apr 2015 at 00:09

Tysonator said:
I think the cost with a discount card is apx £40 from Essex to NEC.
If there is more than 2 people going to NEC then best to drive.
What ruins it for the train is the cost, way, way to expensive

It depends on when you book it and how you go about it, the ticket I bought in advance worked out to be £15 for a return, which isn't a million miles from the normal price if you don't mind the train ride taking twice as long.

If I'd left it to the last minute or gone from a more indirect station the price would have been a lot more.