Will Cactus V6 get update to support Olympus FL600r

robjpugh

Will Cactus do a future update to the V6 trigger profiles to support the Olympus FL600r flash ? the flash works with full TTL pass through using the FL-50R profile but having a dedicated one would iron out some small bugs.

Is the hardware to handle such an update or do we need to wait for V7 ? 

Very impress with the units and build quality.

raychan

Due to the limitation of the hardware design, I'm afraid that the V6 is not going to have the flash profiles for Olympus FL600R.

pgfrancis

A couple of questions:

• Can you use manual training of the FL600R or do I need to control power on the flash unit
  
• If I use passthrough TTL to a FL600R on the camera can I control the power of a V6/Canon 430EX II via the V6 on the camera (i.e. at the same time as using TTL pass through)? This would be so I could control FL600R and Nissin i40 via pass through TTL and other non Olympus TTL flashes via Cactus V6 
  

Antonio

Hello @pgfrancis,

When you use the FL600R as an off-camera flash unit, you will need to set it M mode, so manually controls its power on the flash unit, and only wireless flash triggering, no wireless control.

Yes you can certainly TTL passthrough your Oly flash on a Oly camera, and at the same time wirelessly power control a 430EX mounted on a V6 (RX).   If you are using TTL passthrough, you can't "control" flash power outputs per se other than + / - EV.

Hope this helps!

whodareswins

Hello guys!!

I own a EM1, and a FL600R, and thinking about buying the Cactus V6. I understand that if I put everything on manual (the way I like it) then you CAN control the power output from camera, is that right?

More important even, does it support High Speed Sync (FP)?

I just need a transmitter and one receiver, since I will be using only one flash...

Thanks!!

Antonio

Hello @whodareswins

whodareswins said:

.. I understand that if I put everything on manual (the way I like it) then you CAN control the power output from camera, is that right?

From my previous reply:

Antonio said:

When you use the FL600R as an off-camera flash unit, you will need to set it M mode, so manually controls its power on the flash unit, and only wireless flash triggering, no wireless control.

So the answer is, no unfortunately.

In order to do remote power control, the flash must be in TTL mode when mounted on a V6 RX unit.

Despite the Cactus V6 can remote control TTL flashes, it is still just a manual flash trigger, so it does not support HSS / FP modes.

You may consider instead the Cactus RF60. It's got a built-in radio transceiver just like the V6, so you can it as a Slave flash as well as a Master flash to control other V6 or RF60 units:
http://www.cactus-image.com/rf60.html

It has a GN of 56 @ISO100, so much more power than the FL600R, at GN36 @ISO100.

At moment, only these Olympus system flashes are supported to do remote power control on the Cactus V6:
- Metz 44AF-1, 52AF-1, 58AF-2;
- Olympus FL-36R, FL-50R;

Thank you.