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Test – Godox radio trigger for camera and flash

[EDIT - I've made a correction with the prize, which is 545 DKK instead of 500 DKK as I stated initially]

 

It's been a while since I've tested equiptment and photo related gadgets, so when this combined flash and camera radio trigger landed in my appartment, I thought to myself – let's get these reviews back.

The radio trigger from Godox (china) aqquired through flashogfotobutikken.dk for the cheap price of 545 DKK

If you visit the godox website, you can see a list of specifications – I'll do a fast copy paste here:

Transmit frequency: 433MHZ
Workable range: within 100m
Channels: 16
Battery for transmitter: 12V23A
Battery for receiver: 2XAAA
Sync speed: 1/250S

As many other of the cheaper triggers, sync speed stops at 1/250s, so nothing notable there.
There are 4 channel switches on top of both transmitter and receiver, and combining them will get you to the total number of 16 channels – for instance, switch on 1 and 4 at the samme time, and you have a brand new channel selected. I tested them, and they all seemed to work flawlessly.

When standing with a trigger in your hands, two of the most important things to me is workable range and consistency – will it fire every time and will it do it on a good distance?

I did the test of those two issues at the same time, since the consistency might change the further away I got.

At first I started up with a 3 meter measureing tape attached to the floor, and did 1 meters, 2 meters and 3 meters, where they alle fired every single time. Some triggers, have issues triggering when standing too close, but the Godox trigger seemed to handle that issue without any problems.

I then started placing the camera further away, and ended up testing with the trigger 25 meters away with numerous pavement walls in between – the trigger still fired without any missfires.

I haven't had the opportunity to test them outside and on distances exceeding the 30 meters, that they promise at the website, but I'll be sure to test that in a near future.

I did the same test with the trigger attached to the camera, and the the receiver attached to a flash, and the same flawless triggering continued. If I had to point anything out, It's a bit silly that you have to switch the trigger and reciever when using it to trigger Camera and flash - When triggering Camera, you use the remote control, and mount the receiver. When triggering flash, you mount the remote control on the camera, and attach the receiver on the flash. It's not a big deal, but it would have been cool, if you could have left the receiver on the camera and used the remote control as receiver on the flash.

[Edit - I have been told that it's the flash triggering part, that has a max range of 30 meters and that the remote camera triggering has a range of 100 meters - I haven't tested this yet though]

Conclusion:
As a remote camera trigger, this handy device from Godox works perfectly. The feel of the construction is a bit plastic like, but it works, so I'm not passing judgement on it's looks – my mom taught me that.

As a remote flash trigger, it's a good alternative to the equally prized triggers from other german or chinese producers such as walimex, interfit and boling. But this is NOT a Pocket wizard or Cactus trigger – the range is limited to 30 meters, and although you can combine trigger sets adding more receivers to trig several flashes (not tested, but doable in theory)
you are limited to low synch speeds, manual usage on the triggering and in general less features and programmable options, should one need that.