Paul C. Buff, Inc. Technical Forum

Hi,

how do you optically slave an ALIEN BEE flash using another ALIEN BEE?

You just turn it on and make sure the slave eye can "see" the other strobe's flash. Indoors where light can bounce around this shouldn't be hard to accomplish even if the secondary Bee is more beside or behind the main one. Also, if you plug a cable into the sync port it disables the slave eye - so make sure nothing is plugged in the sync port on your slave Bee.