Will the El skyport plus HS transmitter(sony) be able to trigger the Elinchrome FRX400/200(sold in India) letting me use the High speed function. Shall remain grateful for your answer.
The Transmitter Pro is the same as the Transmitter Skyport Plus HS. But since firmware 2.1, the "Skyport Plus HS" is named "Transmitter Pro". www.elinchrom.com/support/firmware-release-notes.html#transmitter_pro
HI MILAN, Unfortunately, the FRX is not optimized for Hi-Sync. You can still go above your X-Sync but it might produce unexpected results depending on flash units, power levels and camera sensor size.
Hi Abhishek, what heads are you using? With HS technics, gradient is inevitable but depending the type of heads or units you use you can reduce that effect. For more information about this, please refer to this page: www.elinchrom.com/learn/hss-hs.html For compatibility please check this page: www.elinchrom.com/support/ELSP-HS.html#compatibility_chart
Is it possible to measure using a flash meter (I want to use the HS with a film camera and it is not possible to adjust the power by successive tests)?
On a budget, wondering if you could use an RX-4 powered by something like a Paul C. Buff Mini Vagabond to produce the same results as the ELB400 kit. I understand it's a bit bulkier but I wouldn't have to purchase the extra piece to mount large modifiers as I would with the Quadra heads. If so, I'll order a RX-4 kit with the HS trigger! :D
You need Elinchrom compatible units (with long flash duration): www.elinchrom.com/support/ELSP-HS.html Other option would be to attach the Skyport Plus Receiver and you could achieve Hi-Sync, but again you need long flash duration units/heads.
So I just decided that I might go ahead and buy a pair of the ELC Pro HD 500 Ws heads. I'm just a little confused whether or not having HS is better for sports photography such as motocross or is the older technology of short flash duration better (1/16,000 or so)?
I don't have experience with this. With HS you can choose 1/8000s on your camera, but the shutter will still need 1/250s to pass over the sensor. During this time your object move and you have kind of rolling shutter effect. With short flash you have >>>bam
Here are some steps to follow to sort this out: - Do not use silent mode, this may deactivate some flash features. - Activate in the flash mode setting of the camera fill-in flash or slow Sync. - SC Setup by the camera is normal because some Sony cameras can be controlled by the Transmitter. - HS mode is automatically activated with the Transmitter Pro version since firmware V.2.10. - Hi-Sync and other functions will work only when you use original Sony lenses. Workaround: use Sony with the original lens with the Transmitter switched ON and then change to a third-party lens without switching of the devices.
I'm new to Elichrom and just bought a ELB 400 with HS Head and ELS Transmitter Plus HS for Canon. Now I thought of buying a second light: the D lite RX4, which is said to be compatible with the HS-system. But I found out that the A a B port from the ELB400 have different optimal ODS settings. So now I am wondering how compatible the system really is. Using two ELB's in the same set, but with different output-levels (using different ports) can make it complicated to find the optimal ODS setting....... hmm. And how works the ELB together with the RX4 in terms of ODS? I really like to know that first before investing in more light-units!
han furnee this worries me too. i have a mix of d-lites at different powers, from 100-400 watt. is this system going to allow me to use all of my lights together?
Han, if you wish to use Hi-Sync with your ELB 400 you should only use the A output. You may use it together with your D-Lite 4 but at a certain point, probably at 1/8000 the results will not be the best due to the different flash duration of HS heads and D-Lite 4 heads. Jenny, if you need to use Hi-Sync, it will only be compatible with D-Lite 4 units, not the One or 2. www.elinchrom.com/support/ELSP-HS.html#compatibility_chart
Hi, i am Ravindra Patil Please help me Sync speed photography i have studio flash unit Elinchrom fx 200 ri Is speed light photography possible on this unit ? If yes, please send me video tutorial on it or some use full links.
Roberto, what unit do you use, please make sure it is compatible in Hi-Sync. www.elinchrom.com/support/ELSP-HS.html#compatibility_chart Hi-Sync or HSS mode for Sony cameras will be detected automatically. Once the shutter speed is above the normal x-sync of your camera, Hi-Sync or HSS mode will switch on automatically. Important, do not use silent mode, this may deactivate some flash features.
Actually, this is somewhat misleading. When the Xplor/ Godox 600 is in HSS mode, the power is much much less than the 600w/s. This is because the flash is firing in a strobe like manner so fast you can't tell. To fire that fast it has to be able to recharge fast enough for the next flash and keep flashing until the shutter covers the focal plane. To do this, the flash can NOT fire at full 600w/s. This is why you see BTS shots with those lights where the settings are 1/2 power, 3/4 power, or full power and the light is still fairly close to the subject. Or why you see such a tight crop on the subject, so you won't see the lighting. With the Hi-Sync system, it's just one long flash at the brightest part of the flash curve that lights your subject. The flash duration is longer than the shutter speed which allows the light to cover the entire focal plane. Since the strobe is only emitting one flash burst instead of multiple bursts as in HSS, you can effectively have more power and have the light a bit further from the subject so as not to clutter your composition which would need to be removed in post. Make sense or did I just confuse the issue?
Elinchrom it is so overdue. i also hate the overpriced power packs. will be forced to buy Godox, but wish there was an Elinchrom option. hate to say it, but I'm beginning to regret investing so much money in my lights and modifiers.
In my opinion, Studio Flash (which the Elinchrom flashes are) and TTL are not useful together. TTL is when you have to react fast and have different lighting situations or distances where the flash has to be adjusted fast and often. But you loose the exact control over the light and because of the pre flash, you get a time delay between pressing the shutter and the exposure. With manual flash and a light meter you can do much more with your light without needing TTL. I'd like to have a light meter which would be able to measure HSS. The new Sekonic can only measure the high speed sync....
How do I use the following set up: use the flash of one light but use only the modelling lamp from a second light, ie turn the flash off of second light, but just use the modelling lamp of that same second light, thus only using the flash of the first light.
can't get this to work with my Sony A6500. No matter my setting on ods i can't get an even light over the full frame. A lot of vignetting. Have the Quadra Hybrid living light kit.
joe, you also forgot one important advantage of higher shutter speeds, the abillity to hand_hold the camera, as far as motion blur, the faster the shutter, the less vibration gets to the shot. This also makes the shoot easier, NOT having to tripod mount the camera the whole time.
Just wondering how to shoot with wide aperture indoor and out door. Thanks to Elinchrom for HS. Bought one last week and tried some sample shoot with RX4 and RX2. Works well with 1/8000 even with RX2.
This is silly. If the HS mode captures SOME of the power, then each flash set to different outputs would all not be able to be measured with a light meter as each one is putting out a different amount of power based on the actually power output AND the sliver of light it’s capturing. How can you consistently measure that or practically use that in the studio? Using ND filters would be way easier and more effective. Plus, the system does make a gradation of the light, so you then have to fix that in post.
Before HS the flash heads had to be fast, the faster the better. And the Elinchroms (except the Dlite 2 and 4) are fast, very fast, even the small D-Lite Ones. But with HS you need slow flashes which have a long and even burn time. It has to be as long as the shutter needs to do his work (the duration is about the X-Sync-Time, so about 1/250s). During this time the flash has to emit light, as even as possible (or you have a light falloff, which has to be corrected in post production). And so only the ugly slow D-Lite 4 (1/800 t0.5, with makes about 1/250 t0.1) is the only flash head to do HS. Furthermore Elinchrom developed the HS-Heads, because it's outside where you need HS to overpower the sun. (If this stay among us: You can use the skyport HS with a skyport receiver and a cheap'n'slow chinese flash unit to do HS.)
Zack if you don't want to buy an expensive sky port, I've done the same with a yongnuo Tx controller and receiver plugged into a ranger quadra with a standard /pro head!
Can i high-sync with the quadra hybrid RX AS with s head? It's this kit: www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/907120-REG/elinchrom_el_10401_1_ranger_quadra_hybrid_li_ion.html Thanks
I purchased your skyport hs for my sony a7s and updated all firmwares and the HSS worked for literally two shots and it suddenly forced me out of the higher sync speeds. Are there currently bugs for your unit or do I have a faulty device?
It could be a fault on your camera or the Skyport. Are you in manual mode on the camera?Have you tied with another Sony camera? For support: www.elinchromus.com/customer-service/parts-service-info
how does this system different from the PocketWizard TT1 and TT5 high speed sync system I'm using the ELB 400 High Hi-sync with my pocket wizards for high sync already
Hi Hector, HyperSync is actually the same technology as Hi-Sync, the only difference is that it's build to work perfectly with our Elinchrom environment and you also have the ability to fine tune and select the precise moment of your trigger. More here: www.elinchrom.com/learn/hss-hs.html#hisync
I have an almost identical setup to him (ELB 400, 2 Quadra HS Heads, EL Skyport Plus HS, etc.), but with a Canon 5D Mark II. I have yet to be able to get sync speeds above 1/250 - everything gets substantially darker from there. HS doesn't appear to be working, although that's the mode that the Skyport Plus HS is in. Any thoughts?
Since this system does not have TTL, what are the tips and tricks to know what flash power I need to get a good flash exposure?
www.elinchrom.com/learn/outdoor-basics.html
MyNycable you need to use a light meter
is this Elinchrom Skyport PLUS HS sync with my frx 200?
Will the El skyport plus HS transmitter(sony) be able to trigger the Elinchrome FRX400/200(sold in India) letting me use the High speed function. Shall remain grateful for your answer.
I bought an EL- Skyport Transmitter pro for my sony and elb 400 HS. Should I have purchased this transceiver instead?
The Transmitter Pro is the same as the Transmitter Skyport Plus HS. But since firmware 2.1, the "Skyport Plus HS" is named "Transmitter Pro".
www.elinchrom.com/support/firmware-release-notes.html#transmitter_pro
I HAVE FRX MASTER IN INDIA .....WILL THE HIGH SYNC WORK WITH IT ????
HI MILAN,
Unfortunately, the FRX is not optimized for Hi-Sync.
You can still go above your X-Sync but it might produce unexpected results depending on flash units, power levels and camera sensor size.
When using Skyport HS, I am getting gradation in horizontal framing, Down part of the frame is lighter. Is there any way I can fix that.
Hi Abhishek, what heads are you using? With HS technics, gradient is inevitable but depending the type of heads or units you use you can reduce that effect. For more information about this, please refer to this page: www.elinchrom.com/learn/hss-hs.html
For compatibility please check this page: www.elinchrom.com/support/ELSP-HS.html#compatibility_chart
@@elinchromLTD Hello! i can use this SKYPORT PLUS HS on my canon 6D to control my ELINCHROM D-LITE RX 4? and then i can shoot in 1/4000 at F1.2????
Do you use the histogram to find the right power of the flashes since a light meter dies not work so well with hs?
Elinchrom team. How about Master RX 600 is this compatible with high speed sync?
Hi Manish, unfortunately not.
no its not... only 400 RX
Is it possible to measure using a flash meter (I want to use the HS with a film camera and it is not possible to adjust the power by successive tests)?
On a budget, wondering if you could use an RX-4 powered by something like a Paul C. Buff Mini Vagabond to produce the same results as the ELB400 kit. I understand it's a bit bulkier but I wouldn't have to purchase the extra piece to mount large modifiers as I would with the Quadra heads. If so, I'll order a RX-4 kit with the HS trigger! :D
That's exactly what I do. It works flawlessly. It has been working for me since 2014.
Sorry I'm new to HS & HSS, how would I use this with the Einstein 640 and my Sony HVL-F60M?
You need Elinchrom compatible units (with long flash duration):
www.elinchrom.com/support/ELSP-HS.html
Other option would be to attach the Skyport Plus Receiver and you could achieve Hi-Sync, but again you need long flash duration units/heads.
So I just decided that I might go ahead and buy a pair of the ELC Pro HD 500 Ws heads. I'm just a little confused whether or not having HS is better for sports photography such as motocross or is the older technology of short flash duration better (1/16,000 or so)?
I don't have experience with this. With HS you can choose 1/8000s on your camera, but the shutter will still need 1/250s to pass over the sensor. During this time your object move and you have kind of rolling shutter effect. With short flash you have >>>bam
dose this trigger work with fujifilm x system?
i have X-T1 Camera
Not for now. The Skyport HS is only available for Canon, Nikon, Sony and later Olympus.
I'm looking to transfer from canon to fuji soon, is there any hope for it working in the future or no?
I can't see sync Mode on my Skyport
Hello Mark. What is your cameda model?
Sony a7riii and Sony Skyport and flash ELB 400 (Pro)
Here are some steps to follow to sort this out:
- Do not use silent mode, this may deactivate some flash features.
- Activate in the flash mode setting of the camera fill-in flash or slow Sync.
- SC Setup by the camera is normal because some Sony cameras can be controlled by the Transmitter.
- HS mode is automatically activated with the Transmitter Pro version since firmware V.2.10.
- Hi-Sync and other functions will work only when you use original Sony lenses.
Workaround: use Sony with the original lens with the Transmitter switched ON and then change to a third-party lens without switching of the devices.
I'm new to Elichrom and just bought a ELB 400 with HS Head and ELS Transmitter Plus HS for Canon.
Now I thought of buying a second light: the D lite RX4, which is said to be compatible with the HS-system.
But I found out that the A a B port from the ELB400 have different optimal ODS settings. So now I am wondering how compatible the system really is. Using two ELB's in the same set, but with different output-levels (using different ports) can make it complicated to find the optimal ODS setting....... hmm. And how works the ELB together with the RX4 in terms of ODS? I really like to know that first before investing in more light-units!
han furnee this worries me too. i have a mix of d-lites at different powers, from 100-400 watt.
is this system going to allow me to use all of my lights together?
Han, if you wish to use Hi-Sync with your ELB 400 you should only use the A output. You may use it together with your D-Lite 4 but at a certain point, probably at 1/8000 the results will not be the best due to the different flash duration of HS heads and D-Lite 4 heads.
Jenny, if you need to use Hi-Sync, it will only be compatible with D-Lite 4 units, not the One or 2.
www.elinchrom.com/support/ELSP-HS.html#compatibility_chart
Hello,
I have the FRX400 version of the lights in India. Is this Skyport compatible with it for high speed sync (1/8000th)?
it is not
Hi, i am Ravindra Patil
Please help me
Sync speed photography
i have studio flash unit Elinchrom fx 200 ri
Is speed light photography possible on this unit ?
If yes, please send me video tutorial on it or some use full links.
Unfortunately, it is not Ravi.
Elinchrom team. How about Master RX 600 is this compatible with high speed sync?
Hi! i have the Elinchrom Transmitter PRO Sony 7AIII but i dont found the HI SYNC, some one can help me? thanks!
Roberto, what unit do you use, please make sure it is compatible in Hi-Sync.
www.elinchrom.com/support/ELSP-HS.html#compatibility_chart
Hi-Sync or HSS mode for Sony cameras will be detected automatically. Once the shutter speed is above the normal x-sync of your camera, Hi-Sync or HSS mode will switch on automatically.
Important, do not use silent mode, this may deactivate some flash features.
Is this HS the same as HyperSync that depends on a very long T1 Flash Duration ?
Edmund Dworakowski basically, yes!
which is more powerful elinchrom el 400 or the flashpoint xplor 600 ?
Explor is 600ws and Elinchom ELB 400 is 400ws but Elinchrom is a much better quality.
Actually, this is somewhat misleading. When the Xplor/ Godox 600 is in HSS mode, the power is much much less than the 600w/s. This is because the flash is firing in a strobe like manner so fast you can't tell. To fire that fast it has to be able to recharge fast enough for the next flash and keep flashing until the shutter covers the focal plane. To do this, the flash can NOT fire at full 600w/s. This is why you see BTS shots with those lights where the settings are 1/2 power, 3/4 power, or full power and the light is still fairly close to the subject. Or why you see such a tight crop on the subject, so you won't see the lighting. With the Hi-Sync system, it's just one long flash at the brightest part of the flash curve that lights your subject. The flash duration is longer than the shutter speed which allows the light to cover the entire focal plane. Since the strobe is only emitting one flash burst instead of multiple bursts as in HSS, you can effectively have more power and have the light a bit further from the subject so as not to clutter your composition which would need to be removed in post. Make sense or did I just confuse the issue?
I understand it make sense thank u
It is compatible with old BX500 and D-lite-2 400?
Unfortunately not the BRX 500, the D-Lite RX 4 is compatible: www.elinchrom.com/support/ELSP-HS.html
When is Elinchrom going to go TTL? Seems like they are way behind everyone else.
Would you like to have it?
Elinchrom it is so overdue.
i also hate the overpriced power packs. will be forced to buy Godox, but wish there was an Elinchrom option.
hate to say it, but I'm beginning to regret investing so much money in my lights and modifiers.
simply put yes :)
In my opinion, Studio Flash (which the Elinchrom flashes are) and TTL are not useful together. TTL is when you have to react fast and have different lighting situations or distances where the flash has to be adjusted fast and often. But you loose the exact control over the light and because of the pre flash, you get a time delay between pressing the shutter and the exposure.
With manual flash and a light meter you can do much more with your light without needing TTL.
I'd like to have a light meter which would be able to measure HSS. The new Sekonic can only measure the high speed sync....
How do I use the following set up: use the flash of one light but use only the modelling lamp from a second light, ie turn the flash off of second light, but just use the modelling lamp of that same second light, thus only using the flash of the first light.
What? Why
can't get this to work with my Sony A6500. No matter my setting on ods i can't get an even light over the full frame. A lot of vignetting. Have the Quadra Hybrid living light kit.
What heads do you use Ralph?
I have the Quadra Pro (EL-20121). I get a fairly ok result - but not one whitout "vignetting".
Exactly my issue. I’ve got the ELB 1200, hi sync heads and a Canon 5d3 and the vignette at just 1/400th is so overwhelming it’s unusable.
@@ZachGrayPhotography use wider angle or step back then crop out the vignetting
joe, you also forgot one important advantage of higher shutter speeds, the abillity to hand_hold the camera, as far as motion blur, the faster the shutter, the less vibration gets to the shot. This also makes the shoot easier, NOT having to tripod mount the camera the whole time.
Just wondering how to shoot with wide aperture indoor and out door. Thanks to Elinchrom for HS. Bought one last week and tried some sample shoot with RX4 and RX2. Works well with 1/8000 even with RX2.
what is mot ?
Not, sorry
This is silly. If the HS mode captures SOME of the power, then each flash set to different outputs would all not be able to be measured with a light meter as each one is putting out a different amount of power based on the actually power output AND the sliver of light it’s capturing. How can you consistently measure that or practically use that in the studio? Using ND filters would be way easier and more effective. Plus, the system does make a gradation of the light, so you then have to fix that in post.
Sad it only works with such a limited number of flash units (like not with BXRi and BRX....)
The Skyport HS works with all units, but the Hi-Sync feature is not optimized for all units.
Elinchrom so in other words the main thing we'd buy it for doesn't work?
Hi-Sync was developed only recently, our flash units where out long before.
Before HS the flash heads had to be fast, the faster the better. And the Elinchroms (except the Dlite 2 and 4) are fast, very fast, even the small D-Lite Ones. But with HS you need slow flashes which have a long and even burn time. It has to be as long as the shutter needs to do his work (the duration is about the X-Sync-Time, so about 1/250s). During this time the flash has to emit light, as even as possible (or you have a light falloff, which has to be corrected in post production). And so only the ugly slow D-Lite 4 (1/800 t0.5, with makes about 1/250 t0.1) is the only flash head to do HS. Furthermore Elinchrom developed the HS-Heads, because it's outside where you need HS to overpower the sun.
(If this stay among us: You can use the skyport HS with a skyport receiver and a cheap'n'slow chinese flash unit to do HS.)
When the HS came out I sold my pocket wizards and bought it. It is so much better and easier to sync with my various flash heads.
I did the same 🙂
Zack if you don't want to buy an expensive sky port, I've done the same with a yongnuo Tx controller and receiver plugged into a ranger quadra with a standard /pro head!
Can i high-sync with the quadra hybrid RX AS with s head? It's this kit:
www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/907120-REG/elinchrom_el_10401_1_ranger_quadra_hybrid_li_ion.html
Thanks
Yes you can, www.elinchrom.com/support/ELSP-HS.html#compatibility_chart
Tip: 30 second video for when you are on set and in a pinch would be great! #sendhelp..
I purchased your skyport hs for my sony a7s and updated all firmwares and the HSS worked for literally two shots and it suddenly forced me out of the higher sync speeds. Are there currently bugs for your unit or do I have a faulty device?
It could be a fault on your camera or the Skyport. Are you in manual mode on the camera?Have you tied with another Sony camera? For support: www.elinchromus.com/customer-service/parts-service-info
how does this system different from the PocketWizard TT1 and TT5 high speed sync system
I'm using the ELB 400 High Hi-sync with my pocket wizards for high sync already
Hi Hector, HyperSync is actually the same technology as Hi-Sync, the only difference is that it's build to work perfectly with our Elinchrom environment and you also have the ability to fine tune and select the precise moment of your trigger.
More here:
www.elinchrom.com/learn/hss-hs.html#hisync
gotcha and thank you very much. I'll have more questions soon
i read that i can get possibly get one up to one extra stop of light using the Elinchrom trigger. how is this possible?
I have an almost identical setup to him (ELB 400, 2 Quadra HS Heads, EL Skyport Plus HS, etc.), but with a Canon 5D Mark II. I have yet to be able to get sync speeds above 1/250 - everything gets substantially darker from there. HS doesn't appear to be working, although that's the mode that the Skyport Plus HS is in. Any thoughts?
An obvious question but needs asking. Have you tried adjusting your ODS ?
Change that music please
Used the Elinchrom Skyport HS with a Ranger RX AS Speed over the weekend, great results!! th-cam.com/video/qvrn9HzG_J4/w-d-xo.htmlm35s
Throw in some hiphop commercial vibes as music. Would be way more chill
why dident you show any picture from the utside?🤔or did you?
A bad video that only was just confusing😯 Yes! It was really really bad 😯😔