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[Shane uk]

Hi all, I have slowly gotten more interested in cameras over the last 2 years.
I currently own a Pentax K5iis, a Sony A6000 but after watching many tutorials and hearing about full frame cameras I just had to try one and now also own a Nikon D800e.
With the Sony I bought a Godox tt350s, Godox tt685s and a Hahnel Modus 600rt.
Hoping I could use these between both Sony and the Nikon I recently bought a Phottix Odin TTL Flash trigger for Nikon with 3 Phottix Odin TTL receivers for Nikon.
Thus far I have not managed to get even a test fire out of this mixture, I have watched multiple YouTube clips where another poster is asking similar can he use his Canon lights on sony etc but have yet to see this answered.
Hope so kind soul's in here can either point me in the right direction to get it working, or say too much hassle just buy Nikon lights etc.
Kind regards Shane

[Merco_61]

For TTL flash to work, everything has to be compatible. Both pinout and communications protocol differ between all the camera brands.

 

Your Phottix trigger system is one of the better cheap systems, but you need i-TTL compatible speedlights to get TTL control. I don't know if the system can be dumbed-down to a level where the only communication is to fire the flash. You might need to get adapters with only ground and the centre pin connected on both ends to run things the strobist way.

 

I use a couple of old Elinchrom Skyport radio triggers and adjust everything manually when I cobble things together using different brands of flash. For studio work, I have my equally old non-TTL but remotely controllable Broncolor system. For quick and dirty speedlight setups with TTL, I use the full Godox Ving rig with the pro control unit.

[Ron]

Yeah, what Peter said.

 

You're never going to get that mix-match to work in TTL. The flash connections and electronics are all different. That's why they make different flash units for different makes of camera.

 

I faced a similar situation when trying to use a modern iTTL Nikon flash with an older Nikon TTL flash. I had to use that setup in manual mode... which is not the huge pain that many people make it out to be. Yes, it's more work, but that little monitor on the back of your camera gives you a big advantage. You can experiment with lighting setups to your hearts content without spending a cent on film and processing. And just getting your flash(es) off camera will almost instantly make your pictures look better.

 

--Ron

[Dogbytes]

You can probably use them in with camera and strobe manual mode using radio triggers. I use the dumbest Pocket Wizards but all adjustments have to be done from the strobe's control panel. Frankly, it's not a bad way to learn to use flash anyway.

[Shane uk]

Thanks guys I thought as much, but after 2 evenings wasted after work trying to figure these out I had to forget about them for a few days.