The official announcement of the RadioPopper X system including the PX Transmitter, PX Receiver, JrX Transmitter, and JrX Receiver.
The official announcement of the RadioPopper X system including the PX Transmitter, PX Receiver, JrX Transmitter, and JrX Receiver.
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nice! looking forward for the price and spec.
Kevin,
Wow is just not enough. Please quit teasing and let us know price and when ordering is available. Being able to use with the Alien Bees is a nice touch. Didn’t quite understand from the video how the units attach to Speedlights like the SB800 and SB900.
Congrats.
Tom
Awesome!
I’m no longer a Radio Popper skeptic … these units were worth waiting for.
Can’t wait for pricing and availability info for Australia.
All I can say is WOW. I’ve been using my ebay systems for a while and I know very well of their limits. I was pleasantly surprised when I first heard about Radiopoppers but I held off jumping the bandwagon with the P1. But gosh, with the new PX and the JRX this will really open up a lot of opportunities and ease my frustration when I’m doing weddings and automotive shoots. Can’t wait to get my hands on them the first time… great work guys, you deserve a round of applause.
How about a receiver that will replace the vp-1 controller of the Vivitar 283. Seems simple, as it is merely a potentiometer. Just need some one to start producing the 283s again. Love the “knobs” concept on the Jr.
Also, I Bet Paul Buff’s shorts tightened a little when he heard about your remotes.
RP EDIT:
We’ve got tremendous respect for Paul, and we’re actually very excited to promote his lights. The new PCB radio trigger is a great solution for someone doing mostly studio work. Our system is designed mainly for on-location work – the sort of domain served mainly by hand held strobes. The X system will allow event shooters who lean toward ETTL type control to use the powerful ABee’s as background and fills. This should open up a whole new market for studio lights.
It’s clear the margin on an AB or White Lightning mono light is probably about the margin on a grip of triggers. It’s our guess that Paul and family show a net gain out of this. We hope so.
If it’s not clear already – we totally recommend his lights. I’ve shot them and beat them up for years and they’re awesome. Designed in a similar spirit to our own products.
Even better than the P1’s. I have used my P1’s and love them. I can’t wait to upgrade. The lack of the optics is a huge plus. I also can’t wait to see the pricing for the Jr’s. Nice touch hooking up the AB’s
In a country where major corporations are begging for government handouts to stay alive, Leap Devices is doing what the big guys should have been doing in the first place – innovating their butts off! Kudos to Kevin and the gang for surprising everyone yet again. The P1 blew me away, and seeing this video made my jaw hit the floor.
[...] forward to upgrading my old P1’s already. Four new units were announced today, along with a nice promo video that does a great job summing everything up as well. The new units are the PX Transmitter/Receiver [...]
Hey Kevin,
Quick question…
will the JRX’s or any of the others be able to fire cameras remotely via mono port?
Cheers!
RP EDIT:
With the correct cable this will be possible on some camera bodies.
I’m certainly interested in getting a set of JRX’s – hopefully the price will come in significantly under Cybersyncs in the UK, where they double in price (large postage, additional fees on top just because it’s an international order, then duty+VAT) – it basically makes them far more costly than they actually are.
Roll on February…
Will the PX be able to be triggered via PC cord for when it is used only with strobes? Be a bit silly to need to either fire the flash or buy a jrX transmitter just to work with strobes only for a PX buyer.
RP EDIT:
The PX has no electrical connections to the camera, so you will still need the flash. However, you can set your Master flash to “commander only” mode which will fire and send the signals to operate the PX Transmitter, but it will not fire during the open shutter and won’t contribute any light to the image. We’ll have a tutorial on doing just this prior to the ship date.
Kevin,
Looks like an excellent 2nd Generation. It’s rare I hit the lottery when it comes to equipment decisions, but looks like my choice of PBC lights and battery power is about to be rewarded…again. Many thanks for choosing to link with that line of strobes.
It’s quite obvious how the JrX transmitter will dial in the strobes, less so with the PX. Those three pots on the JrX, while they don’t appear to be indexed, do look to be quite handy, e.g. direct.
RP EDIT:
Thanks Tim. These dials are not indexed, and they do not necessarily provide a perfectly scaled f/stop by f/stop precision but they are perfectly usable for someone looking to essentially adjust the manual slider on the AB lights remotely – as you noted, they’re right there and handy. Make an adjustment, then give a quick tap to the button and the remote lights will update with the new power levels.
The PX Transmitter tabs through menus – 3 of which are power levels. You’ll index up or down with the buttons to specific exact settings (a bit more precise than the manual dials on the JrX). Each time the number is incremented, the change is immediately provided to the remote lights, so you can watch the model lamps ride up or down as they’re indexed.
More data sheets will be released prior to the ship date. Also, we’ll put up an orientation video for each unit that’ll tour you through all the features and how exactly they work so you’ll already know what’s up as soon as your units arrive.
I understand shipping to Europe is 6 weeks from initial release. What about the frequencies ? Are they exactly the same as the US ones ?
RP EDIT:
Jonathan- Short answer, no they won’t. They’ll be frequencies in the 869Mhz band specific to Europe.
There’s a note in a blog post from a few weeks back on this. Good question.
http://radiopopper.com/blog/?p=57 – scroll to the very bottom of the post “European Frequencies”
Hi,
I’m not clear about something. Can I now take some PX receivers to use with my Canon flashes in ETTL mode, and then use those same receivers with a standard studio flash (Bowens in my case) to trigger those in the studio (manually, obviously) ?
Thanks,
Tim
RP EDIT:
Good question Tim. You cannot use PX receivers to activate anything other than SpeedLite type flashes that receive a pulsed light signal. They have no electrical output to other gear. You can however use JrX receivers to attach to your Bowens, and either a PX or a JrX transmitter will then activate both sets of lights at the same time, and if you’re using a PX Transmitter, you can still have full ETTL / groups / ratios / of the SpeedLites controlled by PX Receivers, and that ETTL will not be fooled or affected by the studio lights.
Totally awesome. I just posted a thread on the strobist flickr page about wanting to mix CLS and studio heads and was looking at infrared triggering for the CLS with another radio system in the PC port for the other, and trying to dangle it from the side of the camera, etc, etc.
This is an awesome solution.
I am concerned, looking at it, since all of my SB-800 flashes have the 5th battery and I don’t believe these would mount on a flash with the 5th battery in place. Is this the case?
Is there any mounting capability on the pop-up flash on a Nikon body for the PX transmitter?
Thanks! Looking forward to it.
RP EDIT:
Monkey-
Good question on the 5th battery. Actually it will fit just fine. Take a look at the images posted for the PX here: http://radiopopper.com/blog/?p=61 Scroll down to the second from the bottom. This shows an SB-800 with the battery door off and the PX Receiver mounted for use. The 5th battery goes right over the opening shown. We will recommend semi-permanently mounting the receiver using some high strength double-sided tape, and using the 5th battery compartment to space the unit.
This makes for a very solid mount that won’t interfere with your SB-800 battery access. I’d also recommend trying PowerEx rechargeable batteries – we’re not affiliated in any way, just a note that the recycle time on your flash is significantly improved over standard alkaline AA’s.
Nikon Mount:
One way or another, we’ll have a mount available in the next few months.
[...] use flash a lot, and the ability to control my remote flashes from my camera is very important. The latest annoucement from the RadioPopper team now has me on the edge of my [...]
I am currently using a set of P1’s with a Sony a700 and 56AM flashes. The current transmitter mounts fine on the a700 pop up flash with velcro but if you are going to make a set up for Nikon think you could do the same with other mounts?
RP EDIT:
We’ll see how it goes. The Sony hot shoe is a bit odd. If we do manufacture our own mounts, we’ll take that into consideration as much as possible.
Totally awesome answer.
I will be in Phoenix during the weekend of that PPA show. I may have to drop $30 just to get ahold of some of those units.
Do you have to charge Sales Tax there? Maybe it would be cheaper to pre-order online? Do you think you’ll still have units available on Sunday afternoon? (the most likely time I’d be able to stop by).
RP EDIT:
We’ll have details prior to the show, but we should have units. We’ll work out the most beneficial arrangement regarding sales and delivery of items at the show.
Hi to all crew. I was waiting for some new gear. I have 6 P1 receivers, they DO work great, BUT:
Batteries too time consuming to change
Feels rather “fragile” …
I’m shit scared of these flimsy line of lives breaking: The fiber optics
And i was looking forward to start working cross lighting hardware.
I see you’ve addressed all these points in your new model.
Congratulations,
And thanks for the upgrade offer !
All the best for the new year