Wein HS Hot Shoe Slave

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It did work the few times I used it for about a year or so, but then I tried it on the same old off the wall brand flash that I used it on before, and when the flash fired it was unusually bright, and that flash never worked again.
Then I had an old Vivitar 285 and it didn't work until I turned the flash off and with the switch off it fired three or four times, and that was the last. I threw the slave and both flashes in the trash. over

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The HS Hot Shoe Slave by Wein is the answer for adding as many additional pieces of flash equipment as you may wish. With this enexpensive, very easy to use device any flash can be converted to a slave flash in one or two seconds. No wires, no additional equipment, no sending unit, not even batteries are needed. It is hard to believe the device even exists, that it works so effectively even at a considerable distance, and that it is priced so low - less than $40 [...]! Good bye underexposed pictures!

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Don't waste your time and money
It worked when I got it. I reached for it a month later and the only way I could fire it was to point my SB800 directly at it but it had to be touching it. This was true in a well lit room and a dark room.

Actually 1 star is way too high.

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Wein has a decent reputation historically, but like the other reviewers have noticed, they seem to be slipping.I received a new unit DOA, no hot shoe or PC sync output no matter how I tried..[...]

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I bought 3 of these for use in some Vivitar 282 units that were sitting in a closet. One unit didn't always fire the flash, B&H replaced the unit and everything is good in my world. Combined with the 026 Swivel Umbrella Adapter (Lite-Tite) by Manfrotto I can use the units as kickers to add depth and sparkle to my interior photography. A very useful low budget, low tech solution that can be counted on.

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Tried this unit on a 550ex and a 580ex; didn't work on either one. It was also very hard to attach to the hotshoe of both speedlites. I used a Wein household plug slave on an old, old, Norman power pack for a year when I was first getting started and it worked great. Needless to say this one disappointed me.

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I was in NYC went to B&H and bought this unit. Yah sure they told me this little fella id just what you need. It will work no problem it will fire your SB-28. Nah. I got home and this Wein Hot Shoe Slave W940030 will not work with my SB-600, SB-28 or my old stand Rollie unit. It is a waste of time and money.

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This slave functions adequately, but the hot shoe for attaching a flash is a bit loose even when the hot shoe lock on the flash is engaged. The slave appears to be well constructed otherwise. The male PC jack is very handy.

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We use this product to sync up our Canon and Vivitar flashes when we are at weddings and portrait shoots. It works really well with the pocket wizards and syncs the flashes with the cord. We don't use it much with the eye slave, so can't speak to that feature.

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The hot shoe slave I received had a much smaller sensor inside of it than others that I had seen. I had to hold the slave 1 inch from the flash on the camera to get it to fire. The sensor would not read the flash or trigger if it were even 6 inches from the camera flash.

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I purchased a wein slave, when i received i it didn't work. Then I re-ordered, 2 of them just in case. When i received them, one worked at a short distance and one didn't work at all. I would suggest just getting a radio control for your flashes.

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Good contact cannot be made with the 580EX because the flash tightening wheel is larger in diameter than the slightly raised black 'ring' between the clear plastic sensor and the aluminum 'shoe' of the WEIN. (See photo)
I tried it with my 7D built-in flash and a professional ring flash at a range of powers, and because of the contact issue it fired the 580EX perhaps one out of five times. Unacceptable.
(The 7D wirelessly fires the 580EX, but I wanted this Hot Shoe Slave for non-directional use.)

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Just using the extra flash units I had, some light stands or tripods and two of these inexpensive hot shoe slaves, I made a great portable (very portable) studio lighting kit.

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Works exactly how you would expect with my SB-600 and D200. The only issue I had was I forgot to turn off TTL on the on camera flash. The pre-flashes that this used for TTL triggered the remote flash too early. Once I had that figured out/turned to manual, everything worked fine.

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I purchased the Wein HS Hot Shoe Slave to use with a Nikon SB-600 flash; however the Wein slave does not work with the Nikon flash. I believe it is because the SB-600 has a triger voltage (just 2.75 volts) which is too low to work with the Wein slave. The Wein slave does work on a LumoPro 120 flash, which has a triger voltage around 9 volts. However, as the LumoPro has a built in optical slave, the Wein slave is unnecessary.

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For the price you can't go wrong with this little guy. This baby has gotten me out of a few jams, I was glad I had it in the bag!
MGN Photography

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Absolute in my Lowepro Backpack!
It just help you in any situation to fire your flash when you have no wires or wireless built-in system working...

I just used that in 6 assignments around USA and CANADA, when I had to put my flash away from my camera / flash line. Long range capture signals...

It's small, really easy to setup and gives you 2 ways to fire your flash, one directly from the universal conector on the shoe and the other using the PC conector on the side.

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This is VERY sensitive but you have a very small range outdoors. Indoors, however, the product works great. Great low cost option to expensive radio triggers. VERY well constructed.

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This might be a great product but it doesn't work with the Nikon SB 800. The trigger voltage needed is too high for the SB 800 (slave needs 5 volts). It does work with the Vivitar 285 though which only needs 3 volts to trigger slave. The cheaper peanut slaves seems to work fine with the Vivitar 285 too. Had to return HS Hot Shoe as I thought I needed an optical slave for Nikon SB 800 so not sure how reliable it is. I then discovered the SB800 can be fired remotely so a slave is not needed at all!