PocketWizard Limitation ……

If anyone can break the unbreakable, it’s me 🙂

PocketWizards are amazing peices of gear. 100% reliable (as long as the cables and batteries are good) with an unbeatable range of operation.
They’re the gold standard for remote camera/flash triggering. But …. I’ve managed to find a flaw.

I was doing some testing the other day and I’d set up 2 strobes and my camera on a tripod with remote shutter triggering with my Phottix wireless shutter trigger as I wanted more flexability than using my wired Nikon trigger.

After a few test shots I realised one of the flashes had stopped working. I hit the test button on the camera PocketWizard, but all was well. A few more shots and I realised that the Phottix trigger was interfering with the signal that the PocketWizard was putting out.

I set the camera to use the 2second timer and hey-presto – all the lights went off as normal.
The Phottix wireless trigger is a really handy bit of kit, but worth noting that it introduces reliability issues with the UK PocketWizards