Hello again! Izzy from Digital Goja showrooms, and today we're going to take a look a t how
to work with 3 of the Altura Photo APC-958X professional strobes for Canon. We're going
to show you how to work with these wirelessly, which makes your life easier to light up your
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Alright, so the first thing we have to do is we have to get the
camera set up for wireless flash transmission. So, first of all, you want to set your Altura
flash on your camera, this one happens to be a Canon EOS 7D Mark II, again, this is
going to be very similar menu for most Canon cameras and, you want to set your camera to
manual 'cause you want to make sure you have access to all your control settings. Later
on you can switch it to even I-TTL if you choose to, but, activate the menu, go to your
first camera setting and scroll down to flash control. Enable, of course, flash firing,
I use evaluative E-TTL metering, it works for me and the flash sync, you can set it
to auto or anywhere from 160 to 260. I prefer working with a fixed flash sync, so I like
the 250th of a second which is usually fast enough for myself, but again you can vary
it yourself. Now, we want to go to external flash settings. First, if you're going to
do TTL, definitely activate it to TTL, so you have TTL, manual and multi. Right now
I have it to TTL, this is the one that's very important, this is the one that activates
whether you want wireless or not. So you obviously want to activate it to wireless, I'm going
to set it to zoom auto because I want the camera to automatically change the zoom head
as I zoom my lens. I'm working with a first curtain right now, I'm not doing high speed
sync and here is where you can actually change your exposure for your flash compensation.
And then, this is if you want to do exposure bracketing, that's become really popular now
so you can guarantee the shot and in here is where you're going to set the channel.
I'm going with 1, I want to enable my master flash to fire and I want to be able to control
all the flash groups, but you can switch it as you can see to different flash groups.
So now, that's set up, notice how the screen is set to master, channel 1, so now let's
go ahead and set up the wireless ones. So now that we have the other 2 Altura 958s I'm going
to set these guys up for wireless transmission. So we first turn it on and you press down
your zoom button, notice how that activates our wireless mode and switch it over to slave
and you can set it to channel 1, you can change it to different groups here, this is where
you can do all your adjustments and set it aside and now here's my second one, turn it on
and I'm going to do the same thing, hold on the zoom, switch it over to master in channel
1 and group A. So now, both of these guys are ready to fire off when I fire from the
one that's my main one and I'll show you how that works. Now remember, this works on optical
line of sight, so these sensor have to be able to see the light being emitted from here,
which is one of the reasons why I like that the flash can do this, so I can have this
aimed at my primary light source, but I can have the flash aimed in the direction that
I choose to. So this way when I fire it off, boom, they all fire off also, so this way
you can really control the way you want to light up your subject and you can do much
more advanced flash photography. I hope this helps you out. Happy shooting!