My first post to this forum, hopeing to find an answer.Had a photoshoot yesterday and ran into problems. Set up was 1DX with ST-E3-RT transmitter firing 5 remote 600EX-RT's. This was for headshots so all the speedlites were within 12' of the camera...
Thanks for your suggestion regarding the power cable. Mine only fails when on battery power. How does one "properly ground" a usb port? Mine is happening on a brand new MS Surface PRO 6. Purchased this for the purpose of shooting tethered to my 5D...
Just to follow up on my original post and question. After another long photo shoot; and being aware of the issues; I now realize that the ST-E3-RT will not fire if a speedlite is not ready to fire; so if batteries are low and cycle times are long o...
Agreed, I would want the system to stop firing alerting me to a flash failure or dead battery. I just find it odd that this isn't mentioned anywhere. When you have 6 remote flashes scattered around a set up, and the system stops working; it would be...
Had kitchen photo shoot yesterday and that was using my 5d Mk III. Ends up I had the same issue. Maybe I never noticed it before. But it seems that when one of the flashes is dead or batteries are slow to recharge; the ST-E3-RT won't fire the rest...
diverhank, I'll double check that, but I pressed the manual fire button on the transmitter, then tried cycled the 1DX shutter. Back and forth a few times, went around and reset all the flash sync's and channels (even though they appeared to be worki...