Cheap flash with built in radio receiver (Page 2): I have Godox v850 flashes and would recommend them highly. They can be purchased in a package with a radio transmitter and receivers...

canadiaman Loc: Tallahassee, FL

I have Godox v850 flashes and would recommend them highly. They can be purchased in a package with a radio transmitter and receivers quite inexpensively. (Although I doubt they meet your original request of working with a pocket wizard transmitter.)

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00TYEWOB6/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?qid=1427893644&sr=8-3&keywords=godox+850&pi=AC_SY200_QL40&dpPl=1&dpID=51g3l6tYWIL&ref=plSrch

The best thing about these flashes is that they use lithium batteries so that you not constantly waiting to recycle. You can change the flash power and trigger the flashes with the remote. If you need TTL, the v860 would meet your needs. One quirky downside is that they require a seperately $30 transmitter to do HSS.

speters Loc: Grangeville/Idaho

lloydl2 wrote:

Good morning! I'm on the hunt for an off camera flash that has a built in radio receiver compatible with a pocket wizard transmitter which I would use on the camera shoe to trigger multiple flashes.. thanks..

If you get a flash with a build-in radio receiver, than you do not need a pocket wizard, if it does not feature a receiver,that's when you need a PW. Check out Yungnuo's new 600 EX RT's, they are selling for $160 right now (B&H)!

lloydl2 Loc: Gilbert, AZ

speters wrote:

If you get a flash with a build-in radio receiver, than you do not need a pocket wizard, if it does not feature a receiver,that's when you need a PW. Check out Yungnuo's new 600 EX RT's, they are selling for $160 right now (B&H)!

i would need a pocket wizard on my camera hot shoe to trigger the flash with the built in receiver and already have a pocket wizard just trying to avoid buying a receiver for each flash unit.

Reinaldokool Loc: San Rafael, CA

Gene51 wrote:

You can use the Yongnuo speedlight products - cheap, powerful, TTL or Manual, Optical slave and RF triggers. If you are looking for PocketWizard compliance - it won't be cheap.

If you are looking for a monolight, ditto.

More information will give you a better answer. What budget? Portable? How many? etc

:thumbup: :thumbup: The Pocket Wizards are great but very expensive. Yongnuo has produced some excellent RF triggers that do a great job but are relatively inexpensive. If you match the triggers with Yongnuo flash units with built in receivers, you get a good system.

I used to lug around a lot of flash gear for portable studio setup. On a shoot about a year ago, I needed to light up a good part of a barn. By the time I was done, I had five Yongnuo lights plus my SB800. I used three Yongnuo triggers. One to trigger my SB800; a second to actually trigger the shutter and the third in my hand to set off the whole thing. Each of the flashes had its own built in receiver. That's a lot of flash for very few $$s

For only a little more Yongnuo now has a much more sophisticated trigger that can control their lights and set them up in groups. Beyond my needs at the moment, but very impressive.

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Reinaldokool Loc: San Rafael, CA

lloydl2 wrote:

first thanks for all the feedback. Here is some m... (show quote)

This is why I stay away from Sony. They do everything with proprietary solutions that are incompatible with the widely accepted standards. The A99 hotshoe is incompatible with the later a6000 hotshoe which is incompatible the hotshoe on a Sony camcorder I was looking at.

lloydl2 Loc: Gilbert, AZ

years ago i had Minolta camera's my last one was a maxxum and thus the reason for my going with sony. Those lenses from years ago fit on my modern sony cameras with full autofocus capability so at least in this way they are compatible. the hot shoe that's another story and a sad one.Istill love my sony a99 and my little rx100 m3. both take extraordinarily good photos.

Reinaldokool wrote:

This is why I stay away from Sony. They do everything with proprietary solutions that are incompatible with the widely accepted standards. The A99 hotshoe is incompatible with the later a6000 hotshoe which is incompatible the hotshoe on a Sony camcorder I was looking at.