Phottix Strato II Wireless Flash Trigger Multi 5-In-1 Set for Sony - Transmitter and Reciever (PH15655)

They made a huge mistake with this product. It claims to be a wireless shutter release, and according to the instructions, you can attach the transmitter to the camera and and then use the receiver to release the shutter remotely. Of course, you have to connect the included cable to the camera and the transmitter, per the instructions. There is just one little problem: the transmitter has no jacks where you can connect the remote cable! For this reason alone, the instructions are totally wrong on this issue. However, you can connect the remote cable to the receiver, which has the necessary jacks and connectors, and then the other end of the cable to the camera, which leads me to the other mistake they made: the receiver has no way to attach to the camera mount because the receiver does not have the Sony style mount to attach it to the camera. So the receiver has to be hanging off the remote wire unless you get an adapter to be able to mount it to the camera, even though this was designed for Sony style mounts. This way you can take the transmitter in your hand and release the shutter wirelessly. However, this is not the only problem I have with this product. The other problem is that it does not support continuous (rapid fire) shooting mode. My camera supports continuous shooting at 10 photos per second by holding the shutter release button on the camera. If you try to do the same thing with this remote, it only fires once. Lastly, it does not work with the BULB mode of the camera when used wirelessly. You have to press and hold the receiver shutter button in order to shoot in BULB mode, which means you are wired to the camera. If you press the shutter button on the transmitter it will just open and close the shutter right away even if you hold the button. This is a totally useless remote for me and it is getting returned. Very dissapointed.

Purchased with an additional receiver. The whole set under $150, and they work great with my A77 and A7 + F58AM and F43AM.For A77, it's very straight forward. Put the transmitter on A77 and F58AM/F43AM on the receiver.For A7, it's little bit tricky. The set works, just a few extra steps. I have a Sony's ADP-MAA adopter (Mi shoe to Minota shoe) on A7 and the transmitter on top of the ADP-MAA adopter. To activate the transmitter - Put the flash on the transmitter first, turn the camera on, make sure "fill flash" is ON in camera's setting, and turn the flash on. The flash should fire at this point when you take a picture. Keep the flash ON and remove it from the transmitter. Add the flash to the receiver. Now the flash should work wirelessly. Repeat the steps to reestablish the connection if the camera or flash is turned off.

These are amazing and paired with my Youngnuo YN560-II I'm able to pop off 8fps with my Sony a77. The triggers I got is the Sony/Minolta hot shoe mount and they fit perfectly and have fired on every attempt. My favorite feature with these triggers is that you're able to keep a flash mounted on your camera with the trigger on it as well plus if your flash supports TTL it'll still function on camera but from what I've read it doesn't support TTL on the off camera flash which I'm totally fine with. Get these while you can for the Sony mount because if you haven't been paying attention Sony is going to a "standard" hotshoe mount on all it's new cameras like the a77 mark II, a99, a7/a7 and the NEX 6.

It works, but not completely on the Sony SLT-A33 or Sony SLT-A55. Should work just fine with the higher models though. The Sony SLT-A33 and Sony SLT-A55 do not have the option to brighten up the live-view when a flash is not detected but the newer models do. The Strato II flash trigger is not detected on the Sony camera as a flash, so if you plan on taking pictures in very low light with the Sony SLT-A33 or A55 you will not see anything through the screen or viewfinder.

I had to return these as the "Sony" mount is for the old style sony/minolta mount cameras, and not the new style Sony. I have an A7ii and these were not compatible with that.I'm sure the units themselves work great and I'm disappointed that Phottix hasn't introduced a version for the new cameras.

Purchesed these triggers after researching them on line. I shoot with a Sony camera which has a unique flash mount. The Strato II triger fit perfectly. They also have a shoe release button which most of the other triggers do not have. No more of the trigger falling off the camera. They are well built, especialy when compare to most of the cheep trigers. They use "AA" batteries which is a plus. I have tried them at 200' and they fired perfectly every time. I plan on buying more receivers as soon as possible.

If you own a Sony Alpha DSLR.. buy this product. You Will need the little 2 dollar adaptor since Sony uses their specific mount, but this will take your low light, long distance, and portraits to the next level. Eliminating camera shake is really the secret most people don't tell you. If you aren't using remotes for your landscapes, or your portraits.. you are doing it wrong.

It came in today (1/24/15), opened it up, put in batteries, got my Sony F42 flash out and connected it to the receiver, connected trigger to my Sony A850 camera, turned everything on annnnd nothing happen.I set the receiver up as shutter remote with the proper cable, put the camera in "Remote Command" annnnd nothing happen.It could be a bad receiver, will be sending this set back.

Although Sony Alpha has an optical wireless system, it relies on an optical pulse system. That's fine most of the time, but it requires all slaves to be able to see the master pulse, something that won't happen if some of your Flash's are housed in softboxes or you are shooting in high ambient light outside a studio setting. That's where these wireless triggers come in. Wireless triggers also allow you to use non-Sony flashes, especially cheaper ones that fit the Sony mount but don't have the Sony optical system.Cheaper options (such as iShoot) perform the same function as Phottix for less, but the trigger casing is simply not strong enough to hold something as big as a HVL-F58 (I tried iShoots and they simply broke in half even with the smaller '43 - it's a good job they were cheap!), and they tend to be either too tight or too loose on the mount.So if you are on Sony and can't (or won't) use the Sony optical triggering system, then the Phottix triggers are actually your only quality, cost effective option. They work well, always fire (unlike the Sony optical system!), and are generally rugged enough for purpose (i.e. they are as physically strong as the Flashes you will be using them with, unlike cheap eBay no-name triggers).One very important feature of Phottix is that although the wireless doesn't send TTL, the transmitter does have TTL passthrough, meaning that you can place a Sony flash on top of the transmitter (its actually a straight through dumb pass-through because it works even when the Phottix transmitter is turned off). That passed-through flash will be able to transmit Sony optical wireless... which in turn means you can have Sony optical AND Phottix wireless working at the same time.Few additional points:1. The Flashes on the Phottix wireless won't see the TTL information so you have to set all those Flash power ratios manually.2. The test buttons don't work on the receivers (at least, not on the HVL-F43 or HVL-F58). Only the ones on the transmitter work. I'm guessing there's some Sony specific incompatibility/Phottix bug there, but not a biggie.3. The receivers don't have a Sony style connector at the bottom, so you can't use the stands that are included with most Sony Flashes: you have to use a standard tripod thread.4. The Phottix system works well with Eneloop rechargeable batteries (and so for that matter do Sony Flashes). A saving of millions in batteries!5 The Phottix system can be configured as a remote shutter release. A nice-to-have addition!So, for Sony cameras, the Phottix trigger is useful if you are using non-Sony Flashes (Nissin, Opteka, Yongnuo, etc) that don't use Sony's own optical wireless system, or when you are using Sony wireless and one or more Flash doesn't fire because it doesn't have line-of-sight, or when you want to use electrical signalling rather than Sony's optical signalling because it is simply more reliable over long distances or in outdoor lighting. Phottix is also useful if you have to use non-Sony mount Flashes, assuming you have bought some Nikon/Canon mount Phottix transmitters.** Setup used in this review **I use a Sony Alpha A77 with two HVL-F58s (setup as key and fill lights) and a HVL-F43 (setup as hair/rim or backlight). To trigger all three lights, I use the Phottix strato II set up with the transmitter off camera (via a cable), and one flash on an additional Strato II receiver that I had to buy separately. I also use Flashbender light modifiers on the Flash heads.My preference is to use Sony optical triggering (because it allows auto exposure and ratio control), and I use the Phottix transmitters only when I can't go optical because of distance, location or high ambient.

An sich ein super Produkt, jedoch kann es manchmal sein, dass es auf Seiten der Kamera oder des Triggers nicht zum Auslösen kommt und es nicht 'blitzt'. Man muss die Geräte dann einige Male neu koppeln bevor es wieder klappt. Bis auf den Punkt bin ich zufrieden.

E' difficilmente recensibile in quanto sulla carta è un ottimo prodotto ma non l'ho potuto testare nella funzione per la quale lo ho acquistato, ovvero il trigger flash. Purtroppo il fatto che fosse compatibile con la mia Sony A99 lo ha fatto preferire ad altri marchi, peccato non fosse specificato (o forse non l'ho letto io... boh) che non solo doveva essere montato su una Sony (ok) ma che pure il flash sarebbe dovuto essere Sony.L'ho solo usato in modalità "scatto remoto" e quello va alla grande. Ora però lo sto vendendo perché a me serve poter fare altro.

Great product. I can’t afford studio lighting. But over the years I have managed to obtain camera flash heads. This item will let me use all of the heads with a Sony camera. Plus there are threads on the underside of the receivers which allows them to be mounted directly onto a tripod or similar. This allows me to use a flexible tripod, (named after a jungle animal), with a flash head mounted to it via the receiver. The flexible tripod can be mounted anywhere with one of these tripods and so far by using the Phottix Strato I don’t see a need for me to buy studio lighting even if I could afford. Oh, the transmitter and receivers work a treat!

Irgendwie hatte mir meine bisherige Lösung (HVL-20AM als Blitzauslöser, und RMT1-IR als Fernauslöser) nur behelfsmäßig zugesagt.Von anderen Herstellern gab es bisher nur mehr oder weniger adäquate Lösungen mit Adaptern.Dieses Modell von Phottix hat die Sony proprietären Anschlüsse. Auf den ersten Blick verwunderlich ist am Empfänger unten der Gewindeanschluss mit Mittenkontaktadapter.Nachdenken - verstehen - klaro. Beim Blitzen schraube ich den Empfänger entweder direkt auf das Blitzstativ, oder (wie ich) auf den Schirmadapter des Blitzstatives, welcher eine Schienenhalterung für Mittenkontakt hat. Und für das Fernauslösen der Kamera muss man eh das Anschlusskabel verwenden, und kann den Empfänger per Schlaufe anhängen, oder im Falle von Langzeitbelichtung den Empfänger als Kabelauslöser verwenden.Auch sehr gut ist das "TTL pass through". Das heißt, dass bei aufgestecktem Transmitter der obere Kontakt auf dem Transmitter TTL Signale an den Blitz weitergibt, wenn man einen solchen aufsetzt.Hier meine Bewertung wie gewohnt in Stichpunkten:++ Verarbeitung++ Kodierbar++ Verwendbar für Studioanlagen (Klinkenadapter anbei)++ Kabel und Adapterset inklusive++ Batterien inklusive++ Fester und sicherer Halt++ Reichweite des Funksignals++ Erweiterbar mit zusätzlichen EmpfängernDaumen hoch!Anmerkung für Nutzer des Sony HVL-42AMDieser Sony Blitz ist sehr störrisch mit Adaptern und Funkauslösern. Einfach aufstecken, Blitz, Empfänger und Transmitter einschalten tat es bei mir nicht. Hier ist die beste Lösung, den Blitz bei aufgestecktem Transmitter aufzusetzen, testauslösen, und dann abnehmen und auf den Empfänger setzen. Das ist KEIN Problem des Phottix, SONDERN des Sony Blitzes.Ich habe es sowohl mit dem HVL-58AM als auch mit dem Metz 58 AF2 getestet - einwandfrei.