Name: Morris DS-1 Digital Slave Trigger with Camera Flash Bracket
Brand: Morris
SKU: MRDS1BK
Price: 47.95 USD
Availability: Discontinued
Rating: 1.57 (7 reviews)

Morris DS-1 Digital Slave Trigger with Camera Flash Bracket

Morris DS

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Morris DS-1 Digital Slave Trigger, Camera Flash Bracket

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Optical Triggers

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Morris Camera & Flash Triggers

Morris DS 

Buy: Morris DS-1 Digital Slave Trigger with Camera Flash Bracket Compatibility: Universal, Connection Type: Hot Shoe, Kit Style: Bracket Kit, Trigger Type: Optical Triggers

Digital Flash Triggers for Digital & Traditional Film Cameras. Digital Flash Triggers work as ordinary slave sensors, which will syncronize immediately with a master flash. This model includes a tiltable Bracket for Camera & Flash.

The product worked the very first time I turn it on and has never worked since.  Tried some of the things other reviewers have tried like battery change etc.  Just appears to be a bad product.  Did not work in any mode. Strongly recommend DO NOT BUY THIS Product.

Does not Wor as Advertised

bought 3 units. tried them all with a nikon sb-800, sb-28x and an sb-28dx. i tried triggering them with the onboard flash of the D700 as well as an SB-800 using various setting in the rpt mode as well as manual at 1/1 changed flash sync speed etc the only way i could get it to trip the slaved flash was if i was less than 12 inches from the unit and then only if it was in the #1 setting for film. it did trip using the 2000 watt dynalite in the studio but i was hoping to use on location with just portable flash units. i'm sure others have had better luck but that's the last Morris Co product i'll buy

don't waste your money

Did not work in any mode.  I changed the battery (weak construction) and it still did not work. [...]

Does not work with Nikon Coolpix L110

I got this digital slave as part of the Morris Camera flash bracket.

Out of the box, the slave would only work in film mode.  I thought it was the battery.  Opened it up.  Battery is buried inside.  Very delicate wires.  Replaced battery.  Now the flash triggers everytime I turn it on or off, but not in film or digital mode.  It's worthless.

Canon SD880 and Vivitar 285HV

cheap construction, digital doesn't work

I have a handful of these things, and I use them all the time.

Most common use is portrait photography with multiple Nikon SB600 and 800's- usually 5 or 6 total flashes.

They will NOT work using any of the Nikon CLS modes.  These rely on preflashes to communicate with between the camera/flashes, and the poor little Morris doesn't know how to talk that language.

However, I am not a big fan of the Nikon CLS for portraits (I get results that are too eratic)- so I do all my portraits with pure manual exposures.  (Not the CLS-MANUAL setting, but pure manual).  This means I manually dial in the flash power on each unit, and let the Morris units trigger from a single flash on my camera- usually the built-in flash on my D70 is enough to do it.

The whole setup works great.  

They seem cheaply made, but have held up to quite a bit of use.  Definitely a much better deal for me than the Nikon SU-4 since they are half the price.

Since they don't rotate in as many directions as the SU-4, it can sometimes be a bit of a challenge getting the flash and sensor in the right direction, but it usually works out.  They are fast enough to daisy chain.

Morris DS-1 Digital Slave Trigger with Camera Flash Bracket

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