Elinchrom EL-Skyport Universal Receiver

Comments about Elinchrom EL-Skyport Universal Receiver:

It just what the doctor ordered. I have other and wold get more when needed

Comments about Elinchrom EL-Skyport Universal Receiver:

What a perfect addition to my already wonderful Elinchrom Lights and sky port system. Now instead of carrying to radios I can control,and group, my back flash and my room lights...what an improvement in quality and efficiency. Although the radio has failed with my Quantum lights it does work with my SB-800. I have not a chance to experiment why. One other minor complaint is the on/off switch is very easily pushed if not packaged away right and it could cause it to stay on and kill the battery. I found that out the hard way the first time I used it. As long as the switch is not in contact with any other object in its case, it will work all day and night with-out a problem. A great little device for your sky port system...A must have and a perfect five if not for the above design flaws.

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Fantastic! An excellent alternative to more expensive offerings (assuming the functions are what you require). I shoot Architectural photography and this is great as it is compact, lightweight AND rechargeable! For the price, it is near perfect.

Just needs to come with the one cord it doesn't and that I had to buy separately so it would function with my Novatrons - a household to mini cable.

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I use the product for triggering 3 strobes. Never had a misfire. Quality of the product is nothing but excellent and for the price you sure can't beat it.

Comments about Elinchrom EL-Skyport Universal Receiver:

Inexpensive professional trigger. I like that it is smaller than the PW's, but, I wish it locked on the hotshoe, and that they were both the trigger and receiver, and that they made an accessory case to hold 4-6 receivers (thus the 4 star rating). If you have a long shoot, plug up the transceiver and it will charge while shooting. I get consistent reliable firing at real life working distances so you cannot go worng for the price.

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Super glad I got this with the EL-Skyport Universal Radio Slave Set, it works without a hitch. It comes with a compact carrying case. If you get the set and this you can fit all the necessary parts in one case.

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When I go on location I want as much of my equipment along as I can take. My lenses and strobes are the bulk of the weight but these remotes can fit in my shirt pocket. No reason to do without these.

Comments about Elinchrom EL-Skyport Universal Receiver:

Studio and location
Very small and very powerful, has lots of settings for almost any setup you can imagine.
They include and you pay for lots of extra wires you will not use.

Comments about Elinchrom EL-Skyport Universal Receiver:

I purchased this as an extra receiver for my kit around a month ago, all I can say is wow! I am very happy with how easily it works, just plug and play nothing to really setup when using basic firing of flashes or lights. Also has really nice and easy setup to create groups and control them, if you are looking for a good alternative to PocketWizards then this should be your choice.

The case that they are enclosed in are a little soft, but as long as you are careful then they should last a while.

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I refuse to buy Pocketwizard on account that I can't find a justification to pay the price when Elinchrom makes such a great product that's easy to use for far less.

I use Elinchrom to trigger Nikon flash units and a Speedotron blackline setup and it goes quite a long ways on a full charge.

If you are concerned about jostling, get some velcro tape.

Comments about Elinchrom EL-Skyport Universal Receiver:

very convienent to use and cost efficient

Comments about Elinchrom EL-Skyport Universal Receiver:

Great for add on back light where optical sensors can be unreliable
Fires 1st time everytime in my studio

Comments about Elinchrom EL-Skyport Universal Receiver:

Is the best wireless device and the best price too!

Comments about Elinchrom EL-Skyport Universal Receiver:

I use for control of flashes Hensel Expert and power pack TRIA 1500 Speed.
This wireless radio slave is very simple in use.
Digital coding of a radio channel guarantees stable work at big distances and the "polluted" air.
Very easy weight. Energy of the built in accumulator has enough for long work.
AC battery charger with International adapters in complete set.
Use together with Elinchrom EL-Skyport USB RX Radio Slave Transceiver - will allow to operate flashes from a computer.

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These have always performed perfectly and never missed a shot. I'm using them with an sb-800 and sb-600, as well as some photogenic monolights. When used with the monolights however, you have to turn on the reciever, wait until it starts blinking, and then start shooting. If you don't wait, the receiver will turn itself off, which gets really annoying, but I'm sure is some safety feature or something. Does the same job as pocket wizard for less than half the price. Highly recommend.

Comments about Elinchrom EL-Skyport Universal Receiver:

This is very good for amature and high amature. I'm using 3 remote and Qflash. But sometime use lumedyne action pack, But its not good works for lumedyne flash head, couple time good fire the flash,but its turn off suddnly, Qflash is no proble, and other shoe maunt flash, but it can not use big flash head. If you use lumedyne flash system, you have to use PW is better.

Comments about Elinchrom EL-Skyport Universal Receiver:

I use these for shooting indoor or outdoor portraits with or without light modifiers.

These do not have the range of the mighty and awesome pocket wizards but they hold their own quite well.

I love how small and light weight they are.

They fit easily into a camera bag inside of the carrying case they provide. I haven't had any misfires (that weren't due to batteries not cycling flash fast enough) from these units at all. I'd highly recommend for the enthusiast.

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I own 3 skyport receivers and 1 transmitter. I use them with Canon flashes using Paramount hotshoe to miniphone adapters. I've used them for night football, volleyball, indoor cheerleading, studio work, school portraits, weddings, you name it. When they work well, they rock. Small, lightweight, unobtrusive little guys.

However, they failed me during critical moments...TWICE. Once during a wedding reception I had one firing at each side of the room to provide fill light for the dance floor. One kept turning off. After a full charge and further testing, it would flash once or twice then turn itself off. I returned it, and was sent a replacement.

Then yesterday, I had 3 speedlights mounted on the ceiling for a baptism at my church, each with their own receiver. Again, fully charged units. Worked fine for a while during the earlier services, then TWO of the receivers turned off, out of nowhere. I had one light firing. Nothing bumped it or anything weird like that (they were SuperClamped to the ceiling). Obviously, I couldn't go up there in the middle of the service and turn them back on.

I can no longer trust this system and I'm forced to go to PocketWizard. It only takes one failure at a critical moment to lose faith in your equipment. Unfortunately this time it took two failures (even the new replacement turned off on me). My suggestion: don't invest in a system that leaves no room for growth, or you'll find yourself abandoning it eventually and spending on the system you wish you had in the first place. I'll be getting PW MultiMax's as they are the only system that allow for integration of multiple cameras and flashes, and give me more control than any other unit. Even the Plus II's don't have the advanced settings I need so rather than wasting that $ now I'll spend a bit extra and in the long run I know it will be the right choice. It always has been.

FYI: These cannot be used for remote cameras and flashes simultaneously because there is no control for shutter lag. You sacrifice sophistication in exchange for price with these units.

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Tested these units at 300 feet and fires flash every time when you have direct line of sight. They simply work! And much cheaper than the PocketWizards. I brought these over the PocketWizards as they have the extra functions when using with Elinchrom RX studio strobes.

Comments about Elinchrom EL-Skyport Universal Receiver:

First of all it`s work very cool! No missing shots during a photo session. Remarks are:
1. Constructive may be better... Some plastics elements are enoth fragile.
2. The cords that support with EL-Skyport Universal Radio Slave Receiver don`t work with Canon 580 EX II build in PC jack. But you still can synchronize the flash using a Hot Shoe adapter like this: Hama Hot Shoe Adapter