Sunday, June 26, 2011  Why I'm Done with Canon's Flagship Flash
Canon 5D mk II & 50mm f1.4 lens For the past few weddings,
really ever since we've completely changed over to Canon a year
or so ago, we've been having some hiccups in our flash work
where the Pocket Wizards just aren't delivering reliability for
us for off camera flash work.  It took us a while to narrow down
the instances where we were having difficulty but finally we
figured out that when the flash was placed near the ground (or
on the ground) outdoors or far away from the controlling camera
especially when there were objects or people between the camera
and flash, the flash would often not fire.  It wasn't  a regular
thing, it would work once, then not again for 6 or 7 shots.
Canon 5DmkII & 20mm f2.8 lens  Our first instinct was batteries
and we made sure all our equipment had new, full charged
batteries.  Then we started to blame the Pocket Wizards.
 Yesterday we decided to bring different flashes and test this
all out and see what the iss