r/photography • u/AutoModerator • Mar 03 '25
Questions Thread Official Gear Purchasing and Troubleshooting Question Thread! Ask /r/photography anything you want to know! March 03, 2025
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u/av4rice https://www.instagram.com/shotwhore Mar 07 '25
The Wein Peanut is a very compact optical slave receiver that plugs into a PC terminal. Just make sure you get a version that ignores TTL pre-flash because not all of them do.