Bonjour,
finalement, le bug serrai confirmé, du à une freqhence trop courte (si j'ai bien compris). La solution : mettre un cono sur le fil de synchro. ca m'embete, j'ai 2 mains gauche pour ce genre de chose ...
l'explication ici :
http://photo.net/canon-eos-digital-camera-forum/00N2kfMerci
francois
They do work, and work well, as far as triggering one device goes. But if you want to trigger the 580 as a master, and the 430 as a slave, fired as a result of the optical signal from the master and not itself on a dedicated receiver, then you will come up against the same problem as me.
Don't worry though, it's quite easy to overcome, but involves a litle bit of soldering.
If you are using the 580EX2 as master, then it will only fire if the length of the trigger pulse from the Skyport is lengthened slightly. This is really a Canon bug, as the 580 will fire in ANY mode using PocketWizards, so the "required" pulse length is slightly greater in Manual Master mode than it is in all other modes.
The PocketWizards already ahve a slightly longer trigger pulse, so the 580 fires okay with them in any mode, but with the Skyport, the trigger pulse is only one-millisecond long. This works in any mode except Manual-Master mode (obviously ETTL mode won't work as you don't have a data connection to the body).
The way around this is to stretch the trigger pulse from the Skyport by adding a capacitor across the terminals - I did this in a hotshoe adapter, but I guess it could be done on a PC-Sync cable - By the way, the PC sync socket is disabled on the 580 when in Master mode, so you have to use a hotshoe adapter.
The value of capacitor I used was 22nF (readily available).
So bottom line is, if you want to use the 580 in Master mode you need to trigger it via the hotshoe, If you are able to put a capacitor across the cable terminals then you can use the Skyport, if not then you need to use PocketWizards.