Hi Everyone!
I am fairly new to using the canon speed light system and have a question. I recently bought 2 ST E3 RT transmitters for each of my camera bodies and I have 3 canon 430 ex III RT and 1 600EX RT. I tried setting up my flashes last night with my transmitters by doing the following.
I set up both transmitters to be in radio wireless mode, on channel 1, set up groups on each one in manual mode. My link light is green on one of my transmitters and my speedlights and the other transmitter is orange (which is supposed to mean its' the 2nd master in the group). However, when I take a picture with the camera that has the 2nd master it does not trigger the lights, and the one with the original master does. What am I doing wrong? Any advice is appreciated.
Thanks!
Sometimes having multiple commander units will bump one off the system. You can try to hit the test fire button to wake the system up. If it doesn't work, simply switch the commander off and on - this re-establishes the link. Also, there are some custom functions you should check-out, make sure your commanders or flashes are not going to sleep on you. I shot for many years using the Canon 600EX-RT and the YN 600EX-RT speed lights. Its a very versatile system.
I think you can only have one transmitter controlling one group of speed lights (using the same ID and Channel number), it would cause issue if two people were trying to fire them at the same time and might take shots whilst the flash is recycling.
Cant you just use one transmitter and swap it between the cameras?