Paul C. Buff, Inc. Technical Forum

How do you use the Alien Bees Cyber sync transmitter and receiver. When I use it on the Nikon d300 the flash is mounted on the camera and the transmitter is velcro on the flash and plugged into the camera's pc connection. The Nikon d600 has no pc connection. Please check and advise how to make the transmitter / receiver work .

Updated details - Nikon d300 with a Nikon SB 800 flash not a problem. I now am using the Nikon d600 with the Nikon SB 800, note the Nikon d600 has no pc connection, how can I use the flash with the Alien Bees Cyber sync transmitter and receiver. I need to trigger secondary light, the Nikon CLS system will not work in a wedding situation. Need to use radio system.

Thank you

Jim

Hi, Jim

I think you may mean the Nikon "SB600" speedlight. In that case you are right: the SB600 has no PC connection, nor does the SB700. I believe PCB Technical Support will suggest one of their hotshoe adapters found here: http://www.paulcbuff.com/hotshoeadapters.php Without one, you cannot connect a Cybersync to an SB600.

If you don't want to mess around with using hot shoe adapters to use your Cybersync transceiver, then your other options are:

1. Let your SB600 fire via SU4/slave mode. This means it fires when it sees the flash from your built-in pop-up flash, or any other flash. This does not work well if you are around others using flash since theirs will set yours off, and is also is a bit of a compromise to true off-camera lighting.

2. Use Nikon's CLS system if your camera body supports it (D300's do), but you can run into line of sight problems, and this method still relies on your camera's pop-up flash.

3. Buy a flash that has a PC sync port or a 2.5mm or 3mm sync jack. If you want to use your PCB transceivers and have the advantages of radio triggering (no line of site problems, great distance/range, no interfercence from other flashes, no pop-up flash reliance), then you don't have to spend $500.00 on a Nikon speedlight like an SB900 or SB910 just to get an on-board PC sync port. The LumoPro LP160 speedlight has a PC sync port and everything you need for around $160.00. I have two, and use them in combination with Einstein e640s, and fire everything with a PCB Cybercommander and CSRB+ transceivers.

Hope that helps

Craig

http://www.craigwasselphotoart.com

This device is designed to provide a PC terminal when using a speedlite http://flashzebra.com/products/0266/index.shtml, However, I cannot attest to the usability of this device (my Sony version works fine).
You can also use the PC terminal in the speedlite if it has one (Nikon systems).