Help with Godox Trigger settings: I Need help understanding a setting on my Godox Trigger. Under the "Shoot" function, there is an option for "One-Shoot", or "Multi-Shoot". I've...

Magaliaman Loc: Magalia, CA

I Need help understanding a setting on my Godox Trigger. Under the "Shoot" function, there is an option for "One-Shoot", or "Multi-Shoot". I've attached a screen shot of the applicable page in the manual. What in the heck are they talking about here? How is a triggering signal optimized for Single Person or multi person photography? I'm missing something in their explanation. I Love the Godox system, but the manuals are less than stellar.

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tcthome Loc: NJ

I have to tell you I don't know. Adorama sells a lot of these units if you can't get an answer from Godox. I get the impression they are talking about more than one photographer at the event. Also you could try asking the Angry photographer. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVcxJ9k14bi__-uA1cGkEcA He owns some Godox equipment & pretty tech savy when it comes to equipment.

Godox support where you can ask a ? http://www.godox.com/EN/Q&A.html

Brian S. Loc: Oak Park, MI

Magaliaman wrote:

How is a triggering signal optimized for Single Person or multi person photography? I'm missing something in their explanation.

The manual is referring to "One Additional Flash (Slave) being triggered" or Multiple Slaves being triggered. It has nothing to do with people.

Magaliaman Loc: Magalia, CA

tcthome wrote:

I have to tell you I don't know. Adorama sells a lot of these units if you can't get an answer from Godox. I get the impression they are talking about more than one photographer at the event. Also you could try asking the Angry photographer. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVcxJ9k14bi__-uA1cGkEcA He owns some Godox equipment & pretty tech savy when it comes to equipment.

Godox support where you can ask a ? http://www.godox.com/EN/Q&A.html

I May have to go that route, Thank you. I just figured with all the people using Godox Speedlites and triggers on this forum someone had a quick answer.

Thanks again, Gary

Magaliaman Loc: Magalia, CA

Brian S. wrote:

The manual is referring to "One Additional Flash (Slave) being triggered" or Multiple Slaves being triggered. It has nothing to do with people.

Brian, you might be correct, although to me that's NOT what the manual seems to be saying. Even that doesn't make sense to me, why would that mode take more power? Its still only sending out 1 triggering signal to fire multiple speedlights.

(to quote Monty Python, " My Brain Hurts")

Thanks for your reply though

-Gary

gwilliams6

Brian S. wrote:

The manual is referring to "One Additional Flash (Slave) being triggered" or Multiple Slaves being triggered. It has nothing to do with people.

This is correct , it refers to one flash or many flashes being used together. I own nine Godox/Flashpoint strobes and love them and use them often in multiple flash setups.

You should google it, there are countless good youtube tutorials on how to set up these flashes and triggers. here is one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1yOtzOu5R4

Rob Hall has many youtube tutorials on how to set up and use Godox/Flashpoint strobes and triggers:
https://www.youtube.com/c/robhallphoto/videos

Also you can call Adorama Camera and they have a Flashpoint hotline to answer any questions. Flashpoint is the Adorama naming for all their Godox strobes and triggers.

Cheers

Magaliaman Loc: Magalia, CA

gwilliams6 wrote:

This is correct , it refers to one flash or many f... (show quote)

Thank you so much. I love the godox system as well, in addition to the V860II, I have an AD600 and 2ea of the AD200's. They work GREAT, but I cant seem to see any difference regardless of how I set this option. Oh well, I Appreciate your response, I guess I have to work a bit harder at understanding this.

-Gary

Magaliaman Loc: Magalia, CA

gwilliams6 wrote:

This is correct , it refers to one flash or many f... (show quote)

A Followup. I Found a Rob Hall video from the links you sent. Specifically this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bbwv_e4W3k It TOTALLY explained the feature I was confused with. Thank you so much for shedding some light (pun intended) on this issue.

Problem Solved.

-Gary

M1911 Loc: DFW Metromess

It can be set for multiple groups of flashes. Say group a is ttl and b is at 1/16 power. You can turn on one or more groups at a time. That may be what it is talking about. Someone needs to publish an Englsh-Chinglish dictionary.

Somewhere I have a Nikon S instructions manual that says, "To picture take, down push here."

I think Godox writes manuals for Carnack the Magnificent or other psychics.

Magaliaman Loc: Magalia, CA

M1911 wrote:

It can be set for multiple groups of flashes. Say group a is ttl and b is at 1/16 power. You can turn on one or more groups at a time. That may be what it is talking about. Someone needs to publish an Englsh-Chinglish dictionary.

Somewhere I have a Nikon S instructions manual that says, "To picture take, down push here."

I think Godox writes manuals for Carnack the Magnificent or other psychics.

After looking at a few videos here's what I found. Basically its if you have multiple shooters. In the 1st mode the trigger only sends a trigger to the strobes leaving the power settings at their last setting. In the multi-mode, the trigger sends power settings before the actual trigger allowing 2 shooters to use the same lights with different settings. Thankfully I'll never use that feature, and it also explains why it didn't matter which mode I set it on.

You are definitely correct about the authors of the manuals. Sheeeeeeeesh, although most imported electronics are about the same level of English.

Thank you for your reply, but I think I have a good understanding of that feature now.

-Gary

sscnxy

M1911 wrote:

It can be set for multiple groups of flashes. Say group a is ttl and b is at 1/16 power. You can turn on one or more groups at a time. That may be what it is talking about. Someone needs to publish an Englsh-Chinglish dictionary.

Somewhere I have a Nikon S instructions manual that says, "To picture take, down push here."

I think Godox writes manuals for Carnack the Magnificent or other psychics.

The problem is due to different languages being "lost in translation." Whoever wrote the Godox or Nikon S instructions in English were likely composing sentences without knowing that the order of words may be different in the English language when compared with their native, original Japanese or Chinese sentence, even for expressing the same idea.
Until English fluency becomes more universal in societies whose languages are not based on an alphabet, we will continue to see translation incongruities. For now, why be so provincial in understanding?

NMY

M1911 Loc: DFW Metromess

The use of an alphabet runes pictographs or some other form of writing should not matter if you're marketing internationally. A company should be able to hire Tech writers to write cogent instruction manuals in whatever language is necessary.

I don't think that that is being provincial.

I mentioned that the Nikon example because I thought it was funny and I still think it's funny 50 years later.

Paraphrase Foghorn Leghorn stand up boy stand up I say the humoris going right over your head.

sscnxy

I see. You haven't made it past grade school jokesterism.