I've got a case full of lighting accessory goodies including a small smorgasbord of e-bay triggers. They work pretty good but anyone would rather own PocketWizards or Radio Poppers instead.I recently came across Cybersync's from AlienBees and I'm pretty excited by the price. (As you can see it doesn't take much to excite me. Show me a price tag and I'm out of control!) They are half the cost of PocketWizards.
I purchased a White Lighting Flash Unit from a Paul C. Buff (owner of AlienBees) about 20 years ago and the thing still works so I'm confident that these Cybersync's will last a long time.
I decided to do a bit of testing of my e-bay triggers tonight to sort of convince myself that somewhere in AlienBees warehouse in Tennessee there were a few Cybersyncs with my name written all over them.
The test did prove that the e-bay triggers aren't too consistent and that misfires are frequent.
Now what about the loose screws?
After shooting 150 test images of myself (yeah with my clothes) I actually got an idea and shot the above image. Heck if I got that idea before I started I wouldn't of wasted an hour popping the flashes in my face.
The image is three different shots layered together and then some fancy post processing.
When I was done I showed it to my wife who looked a me as if I had some screws loose. I explained to her that I was performing a highly technical and controlled test of my 'junk' accessories yet that didn't seem to impress her. To her, I was just wasting my time!
It was also obvious that mentioning the fact that there were two Cybersyncs with my name on them in a Tennessee warehouse wasn't going to make things any better so I just shut up!
From the brighter side of the dark room,
Pierre
