Any one using Pocketwizard w/ Sigma EF-530 DG Super (Canon)

JazzyJak

I just got my Sigma EF-530 DG Super (Canon) and slid my Pocket Wizard Plus II transceiver on it with a Paramount stereo mini to female hotshoe adapter between them. Pressed the test button on the PW and... nothing.


Tried the PW on my other flash unit, worked great; put the Sigma on my 20D, worked great; PW with Sigma, nothing. Tried swapping adapter cords and using both ports on the PW and even tried using my other dedicated receiver PW unit, but the PW units won't fire the Sigma 530. I'm using the built-in optical slave mode of the Sigma for now, but would like to figure out this PW issue.


Any ideas?

ziggy53

I'm afraid you really must contact the slave manufacturer. That flash is extremely new, but I'll bet they can help:

info@PocketWizard.com

JazzyJak

ziggy53 wrote:

I'm afraid you really must contact the slave manufacturer. That flash is extremely new, but I'll bet they can help:

info@PocketWizard.com

Thanks for the tip Ziggy, I'll give PW a try.

dogwood

There should be a single contact that triggers the strobe on the bottom of the hotshoe. Are you going hotshoe to mini-phone to PW? Just a guess (I don't have one of the Sigma strobes), but Canon strobes have several contacts on the bottom-- only one is needed to trigger the strobe. On the ol' 550's, sometimes you needed to tape over the other metal contacts to make sure the PW could trigger the light. On the 580's, that's not the case.

Again, I realize you're asking about a different strobe... but maybe that helps.