Ebay wireless flash trigger
Finally, my ebay wireless trigger arrived. I immediately went to the post office to pick the item up. When I got home, I installed the battery on the receiver and tested the setup. The first test didn't set-off the 430EX flash. I pressed the test button. Still no flash. Oops! I forgot to turn on the receiver unit. Tested it again. Still no flash. I pressed the test button, this time the flash fired. I removed the transmitter and mounted it the other way. It's now sticking out on the backside that it touched my forehead when I peeked through the viewfinder. Still no flash. Re-mounted the transmitter the right way and tightened the screw a bit more. Success! I mean the flash fired. But the image was almost pure white. The flash was set to 1/4 power. I lowered the flash output to 1/32. Flash is not within line of sight. I changed the setting of the shutter to 1/200. The image was half black. I decreased the shutter speed to 1/80. The image now looks ok. But sometimes the flash is ...