Flashpoint R2 PRO Trigger Demo - Pittsburg State University

This is a demonstration of the Flashpoint R2 PRO trigger. This was created for the Pittsburg State University Digital Media Emphasis students. The video is licensed under a CCBY 4.0 license.

[@kelsi6273]

Thank you Chauncey for this most helpful, no nonsense demo. You've made this old guy happy!😀

[@coledevore9011]

Straight to the point. Exactly what I needed 👍🏻

[@faithk9674]

Excellent and useful information, thanks.

[@rodzimmerman8436]

Excellent tutorial.

[@photozen8398]

You do not have to go to mode , just double click A button will make it active , double click it will turn it off.

[@markelovett]

Great job

[@FOTOESTUDIOEVOLUCION]

Thanks, big help

[@smalltalk.productions9977]

fabulous! thank you for the effort and the sharing. perhaps a future video about synching the flash trigger to a lighting instrument-V1, AD200, AD300 or something similar. thank you in advance. thumbs up.

[@markelovett]

Do you ever have any problems with Godox misfires? I recently started using several battery powered Godox flashes , 200’s and 400’s, with my Nikon camera, and I’m missing shots due to the controller or flash units sleeping. Really painful. Ever have this problem? And what is the solution?

[@chaunceyhuffman861]

Ugh, yes that's definitely a problem with these triggers. They will go to sleep and miss shots. At this point, I do not know a workaround. The manufacturers need to make the power system a little more efficient. They go to sleep to save power, yet they still drain the batteries. I have to constantly replace batteries because my students will accidentally leave them on, and even though they're asleep, they will drain the batteries quickly. I wish I had a better response, sorry!

[@markelovett]

@@chaunceyhuffman861 Thx, yea that’s one thing I learned, which is a pain, but take the batteries out when not in use, or they drain.

[@kazarian619]

Hi there, I recently purchased the flashpoint r2 pro and a R2 receiver. Upon testing the units I noticed that on highspeed sync my photos are coming out under exposed, even though I'm using the correct exposure. However when I shoot the same shot with the flash attached to the camera on highspeed sync the results are quite accurate. Do you have any suggestions? Thank you for your time and great job with the vid.

[@chaunceyhuffman861]

Thank you for the comment! There could be a variety of reasons this is happening. The first thing I would check is to see if you're using TTL or Manual with the flash. If using TTL, this could be a TTL issue of it not calculating distance properly when it's off the camera. Secondly, I would check to make sure that you don't have any sort of Flash Exposure Compensation settings active in your camera. For this, you would have to look up the specific settings for your camera. Third, I would double check your results by looking at the histogram and taking a picture of something completely white, like a piece of paper with a few dots drawn on it with a Sharpie. This will give you a baseline to know if it's the trigger or the flash. If the flash is actually overexposing the image, then it's probably a flash compensation issue or TTL issue. If the trigger is actually underexposing, then you might need to double check and make sure that when you change the power setting, you're going it on the trigger NOT on the flash. If you change the power on the flash, the trigger will override the setting and whatever the trigger is set to, that's the amount of power that will come out of the flash.

[@kazarian619]

@@chaunceyhuffman861 Thanks for the response. After doing a lot of research we discovered that it's a compatibility issue with the flash units.

[@BobbyDotNet]

looks more like the pro 2 model.