I have a Sony Alpha 900 camera that I want to use with my studio shoots so I needed a way to trigger the flashes. The A900 doesnt have a popup flash so I couldnt use the Sony Wireless Flash system (I could use the HVL-F58AM to trigger the flashes but that would mean I loose my strongest flash just to trigger some other flashes). And I thought it would be cool to be able to trigger the flashes from great distances and from corners that wouldnt be able to work reliably with the Wireless flash system. Radio Triggers seems to be the way to go. You could get some ebay triggers but I read the distance they work are not so great and sometimes a misfire could happen. I dont want that limitation on my creativity so I got some Pocket Wizard Plus II.
The problem with the Pocket Wizard and the Sony system is that they dont work together out of the box. I found a article on flickr http://www.flickr.com/groups/alphastrobist/discuss/72157612003524269 that described a way to make your own cable to connect to the pocket wizards. So I bought the FA-MC1AM sony wire, cut it in half, soldered a 3.5mm mono male jack plug to it. And so instead of 1 original sony cable, I now have two `home made sony pocket wizard cables`. I am able to connect them to my F56AM and F58AM flashes without problems.
Unfortunatly the F42AM flashes dont come with an plug to connect the cable. So I was `forced` to buy the sony hotshoe that connects the the flash and has the plug. So I was happy that that worked out great. But another problem arrised, I couldnt trigger the F42AM flashes, but my other flashes worked great. Furtunatly after a while searching what the problem could be I found out that I needed to connect the flash to the camera first and fire the flash. Now if i connect the pocket wizard to the flash, I works perfect.
To connect a Pocket Wizard to my A900 I also needed a hotshoe, I got a ebay Minolta FS1100, and with it i am all set with the Pocket Wizard system.
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