Just thought I’d post a quick update to Skyport triggers. Shipping from Vistek was reasonably fast, taking about 5 days (over the weekend). I had ordered the universal kit, with one trigger and one receiver and the packaging actually included the hard shell case (contrary to some posts online and also contrariety to my inquiry with Vistek sales themselves!. I have a 580 EX II flash, and out of the box, the included cables don’t fit. The kit includes a PC sync cable to a 2.5mm jack, however the receiver unit takes a 3.5mm jack. A quick stop into The Source Circuit City resulted in a solution that cost me a total of 96c + tax! They had a 2.5mm to 3.5mm converter plug, and for some reason these were on clearance (unfortunately they only had the one left!). So my connection problems were solved.. or so I thought!.. It turned out the PC sync part of the cable wasn’t making proper contact with the 580’s socket. I basically needed to “apply pressure” on the connection to ensure a contact was made in order to trigger the flash. Obviously I needed a better solution, and thus turned to FlashZebra.com. I ordered a PC Sync “lock” cable and received it about a week later. The cable provided a 100% reliable solution, and on closer inspection, it looks like the inner pin of the connection is somewhat quite a bit larger (thus meaning it fit more snuggly) and on top of that the screw lock ensured it wouldn’t come loose!. Now to start playing with some creative off camera flash!
