Paul C. Buff, Inc. Technical Forum

Hello,

I have a Cyber Commander and 2 Einstein strobes.

On my Cyber Commander:
All > CH 01 > CH 02

When I test, in hand, that is when I press the right joystick down, everything works just fine. "All" triggers both flashes, CH 01 only flash 1, and CH 02 flash 2.

But, when I put the Cyber Commander on camera, flash 1 is triggered even though the controller is set to CH 02.

This does not make sense. Would you consider this normal?

Yes, this is as designed performance. This allows you to make changes to a light, without having to scroll all the way back to ALL before continuing taking photographs.

If you would like to take a photo using one light, but not the other, I would recommend using the GROUPS function (click once to the left of ALL. You will see GRP8). You can place one light on GRP8 and one on GRP7. When a "GRP" is selected, only the lights assigned to that group will fire via the hotshoe.

So If I want to take a picture with no flash at all, to measure ambiant light for instance, I must go to an empty group, right? If i set the CC on any of the 16 channels available, or the All option, the flash will trigger. Correct?

Thanks for the quick reply BTW.

To meter, you can go to an empty channel. If you spec a channel as OTHER>UNDEFINED, you will get a meter marker like you do with the channels with lights.

To take a test shot with no lights firing, then you can go to a Group with no active lights.