Trigger unhappy!

[fifiD]

Hi, I have recently brought an interfit infra red trigger. The intention was to use it to trigger my 4 lights and create that studio high key look. Trouble is it hasn't worked! It was very temperamental-at times triggering one, then none, then very very occasionally actually doing what I wanted it to and triggering all 4! Very frustrating! Has anyone else had this problem? Am I doing something wrong? Please help. FifiD:bang:

[kfridge]

don't know much about flash set up...but are all the transmitters/recievers pointing at each other? Infra red receivers need to be able to see each other to work effectively

[hepburn]

You may do better with the IR trigger set to one strobe and the other 3 strobes picking up the first flash to trigger them.

[Garry Edwards]

The first 2 answers are right.
Infra red needs line of sight to work (although the better ones have enough power for the signal to bounce off of other, reflective surfaces, I doubt whether the Interfit ones can)
2. Your lights can act as slaves, reading the flash from 1 light - so just set up your infra red to work with 1 flash and forget about the rest.

Just a word of warning, when using a flash to trigger other flashes, the flash that triggers the others must be a broad light source, e.g. not honeycombed, snooted or similar.

[MartinM]

I have one of these and would add that if your ambient light levels get too high, it will stop working!