topic Re: canon t5i and DigiBee 800 strobe not syncing in EOS DSLR & Mirrorless Cameras

canon t5i and DigiBee 800 strobe not syncing

kosmith124 — Fri, 02 Dec 2016 08:40:45 GMT

Hello. I bought a Paul C Buff DigiBee 800 strobe and my Canon T5i doesn't recognize it. How can I sync the two together? Is the problem in the settings if so what settings should I be using?

Re: canon t5i and DigiBee 800 strobe not syncing

Waddizzle — Fri, 02 Dec 2016 10:07:32 GMT

I doubt if many participants on this forum are familiar with that strobe unit. Have you contacted the manufacturer?

Re: canon t5i and DigiBee 800 strobe not syncing

ebiggs1 — Fri, 02 Dec 2016 12:17:58 GMT

"I doubt if many participants on this forum are familiar with that strobe unit."

You are kidding or are nuts?

Re: canon t5i and DigiBee 800 strobe not syncing

ebiggs1 — Fri, 02 Dec 2016 12:27:49 GMT

"How can I sync the two together?"

What do you mean? The T5i won't fire it or there is a problem with the resulting photo? How are you triggering it? Set the T5i on M and the SS to 1/60.

Re: canon t5i and DigiBee 800 strobe not syncing

RobertTheFat — Fri, 02 Dec 2016 13:51:38 GMT

@ebiggs1 wrote:
"I doubt if many participants on this forum are familiar with that strobe unit."

You are kidding or are nuts?

Mark me guilty too. I never heard of DigiBee. I'll google it later and see what I've been missing.

I'll say this, though: The flash units I use do sync on my cameras.

Re: canon t5i and DigiBee 800 strobe not syncing

ebiggs1 — Fri, 02 Dec 2016 14:43:32 GMT

RTF,

You guys don't do studio?

Re: canon t5i and DigiBee 800 strobe not syncing

Waddizzle — Fri, 02 Dec 2016 14:51:45 GMT

@ebiggs1 wrote:
"How can I sync the two together?"

What do you mean? The T5i won't fire it or there is a problem with the resulting photo? How are you triggering it? Set the T5i on M and the SS to 1/60.

https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/4035395

Re: canon t5i and DigiBee 800 strobe not syncing

RobertTheFat — Fri, 02 Dec 2016 16:31:53 GMT

@ebiggs1 wrote:
RTF,
You guys don't do studio?

Nope. By preference I'm a landscape and architecture photographer, and at work I did mostly events. So if the DigiBee is purely a studio flash, I guess that's why I never encountered one.

At family gatherings I still pretend to be an event photographer. Once you take the trouble to learn how to do it, it's hard to stop.

Re: canon t5i and DigiBee 800 strobe not syncing

diverhank — Fri, 02 Dec 2016 17:45:15 GMT

I've heard of Paul C. Bluff and the Alien Bees...very popular with studio lighting crowd.

My understanding of it is that it's more of a manual flash with built-in modeling light - more power and faster recycling time compared to speedlights.

Normally, you would need to either connect to the camera through wired connection (comes with the strobe) or using some sort of wireless triggers like the popular Pocketwizard...

Being manual, there is no ETTL or anything like that - which nobody uses for studio shoots anyway.