Guest JohnGalway Posted September 13, 2008 Report Share Posted September 13, 2008 Hi folks, Large problem that's exercising my gray matter. I've two Bushnell 2.1mp trail sentry trail/game cameras. They take excellent photos, for what I need, in daylight. They would also take good night time photos if their flashes weren't absolutely dire. Here's a daylight photo of me... Oooer first pic of me on here :oops: I'm something like 15-18 yards away, can't remember exactly. Here's a a photo at night, I'm on the small hillock this time, you can see the beam of my torch (barely) just above the bottom of the slide. Here's a photo where I rigged up my Lightforce Blitz (not at full power) basically in the direction I thought the camera was pointing. See my problem? What I need is one of these two things (other better suggestions welcome, but please no hair brained stuff) below; 1. An independent light source that will flood the area out to 20 yards or so with light enough to take a good quality image. This presents me with two other challenges; I would want the light source and the camera synchronised to light up the area and take the photo at roughly the same time, synchronising two IR's could be very tricky indeed as I know SFA about them. I would need a power source, either battery or solar panel. 2. A much more powerful "slave flash" rigged up to the existing cameras, again I know nothing about flashes or how I would achieve synchronisation between when the camera takes the flash and when the slave flash would light up. Thinking hats on if you please. Answers on the back of a postcard by first post Monday All the best, John Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mattydski 560 Posted September 14, 2008 Report Share Posted September 14, 2008 John, if you can find a flash that works off a PC socket, rather than a hot shoe, you could rig a large flash to run off a slave device that plugs in to the flash its self. Its a shame you are in a rush, i have all the gear you would need. Both a big flash and this slave device. They are not expensive.. see here http://www.profilmgear.com/Items/12494?sck...0Shoe%20Adapter Like i said, if you can wait abit i can send this and a big flash to borrow. Matt Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest JohnGalway Posted September 14, 2008 Report Share Posted September 14, 2008 John, if you can find a flash that works off a PC socket, rather than a hot shoe, you could rig a large flash to run off a slave device that plugs in to the flash its self. Its a shame you are in a rush, i have all the gear you would need. Both a big flash and this slave device. They are not expensive.. see here http://www.profilmgear.com/Items/12494?sck...0Shoe%20Adapter Like i said, if you can wait abit i can send this and a big flash to borrow. Matt Hi Matt, Thanks for the advice and offer mate I have gotten similar advice elsewhere Now, I'm clueless on the subject (well a little less clueless than I was but getting into it slowly) but can you tell me about the difference between the PC Socket flash and the hot shoe please? My idea so far was to get some manual flashes (without power saving feature) and slave triggers and set them to cover an area I need to light up. Are you saying there's a better way for me to do this? I'm very open to listening to new ideas on this And as long as I can pay you for what you send me then I'm happy to accept your offer and very grateful for it! I'll PM you my addy ATB, John Quote Link to post Share on other sites
apollo 9 Posted September 14, 2008 Report Share Posted September 14, 2008 These are trail sentry 2.1 mp at about max distance, if you look on the bass pro or cabelas i think they do auxillary IR flashes but dont know if they are universal Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest JohnGalway Posted September 14, 2008 Report Share Posted September 14, 2008 Hi Apollo, Thanks for that I'm off checking those links now, my trail sentries are flash only though. But, I will be looking to do something sililar with my Moultrie, which does have IR, after I get this sorted out Some very tasty looking photos you got there lol! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
apollo 9 Posted September 14, 2008 Report Share Posted September 14, 2008 Hi Apollo, Thanks for that I'm off checking those links now, my trail sentries are flash only though. But, I will be looking to do something sililar with my Moultrie, which does have IR, after I get this sorted out Some very tasty looking photos you got there lol! I never use the normal flash, if that second pic of yours is with the normal flash there is something not triggering it at the right time.... If you need any IR illuminaters try here,,, http://shop.ebay.co.uk/?_from=R40&_trk...=ir+illuminator Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest JohnGalway Posted September 14, 2008 Report Share Posted September 14, 2008 if that second pic of yours is with the normal flash there is something not triggering it at the right time.... The second pic is the Bushnell internal camera flash only, it's only rated to 15feet anyway and is noted as a crap flash on every trail cam site I've been to Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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