Wired – AlienBees has released yet another consumer-level radio-controlled flash trigger, but this one is a little different. The name – Cyber Commander – might give you a clue. While other solutions can fire a bunch of strobes when you click your camera’s shutter, allowing you to work wire-free with a whole nightclub’s worth of flashing lights, you still have to walk around to set the things up.
The Cyber Commander is a cheap (in remote trigger terms) box which interacts with the AlienBees’ Cybersync recievers to let you control the actual flash from afar. Aside from simply triggering the light, you can adjust power output levels using a graphic interface on top of the camera and group sets of lights together using real names instead of just confusing numbers. The setups can even be saved out out to Micro SD cards.
The transmitters work on the 2.4GHz band and AlienBees claim up to 400 feet of range. And because these use radio signals, you don’t need line-of-site to use them.
