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G9 and multiple flashes

Is anyone using the Canon G9 with Pocket Wizards and multiple flashes?

by Bill Putnam at Mon Mar 24 23:58:30 UTC 2008 (ed. Mar 25 2008) Washington, DC, United States | Bookmark this | Digg this |

I was going to ask the same question about the M8.

by Paul Treacy | 25 Mar 2008 02:03 | New York City, United States |
anyone? anyone? bueller? bueller?

by Bill Putnam | 25 Mar 2008 10:03 | Washington, DC, United States |
Do not know the g9 but: Does i have a flash-shoe or pc-connector and manual adjustments – it will work!

by Ty Stange | 25 Mar 2008 16:03 | Copenhagen, Denmark |
I have one and it will work with Pocket Wizards. It will also sync at high speeds although just how high depends on your flash and the aperture chosen. The problem for me is the camera’s screen brightness. Imagine you want to use it for moody daylight flash shots, the sky perhaps two or three stops below the flash lit foreground. You set up your camera, ask your subject (if you are talking) to stand up against the sky background… and then see that the camera has adjusted screen brightness for the (bright) background and you can’t see your (now silhouetted) subject anymore. Same if you are in an office and want to make a flash-lit picture of someone standing with a window behind them: the camera will darken the lcd and your subject will be a black against the background which makes composition (and sometimes focusing)pretty tough. Conclusion: you have to use it in flat light if you want to see what you are photographing.
Also, if you like working in manual mode because you can see the effects of your exposure settings in real time on the lcd (which I do – it’s one of the nicer features of digital compacts) you will be disappointed to find that the camera detects the presence of the Pocket Wizard in the hotshoe and sets the lcd to maximum brightness (ie you no longer see the effects of your manual settings.

by David Carr | 25 Mar 2008 17:03 (ed. Mar 25 2008) | Paris, France |

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