Quantum FW8R FreeXWire Receiver

Quantum have a vast amount of experience when it comes to radio slaves, having been a leading supplier of analogue radio remote tranmitters and receivers for photographic use. The current generation is the FreeXWire, which comprises a number of radio slave tansmitter and receiver units, along with a selection of accessories and cables to allow them trigger almost any flash unit or camera that can be remotely released electronically.

The FW10w is a transceiver, meaning that it can act as a transmitter or receiver, depending on how it is set up; this maximimises its usefulness, as it can do either job as the situation dictates.

The FW8R and FW9T are a dedicated receiver and transmitter respectively, and are also available as a set.

The final member of the family is the FW7Q, a FreeXWire receiver dedicated for use with Qflash heads; it is smaller and lighter than an FW8R as it powered by the Qflash and requires no batteries.

As all the FreeWXire units use the same switchable frequency sets, all the units may be used in conjunction with each other to expand the system, or do different jobs without interference. e.g a transmitter (FW10w/FW9T) can be used hand held to fire a camera with a receiver (FW10W/FW8R), attached to it; and then a second transmitter can be used on a different frequency for the camera to trigger a remote flash with a receiver (FW10W/FW8R) attached. In the case of the flash being a Qflash, the receiver can be a FW10W, FW8R or FW7Q. In addition, the FreeXWire system can also carry flash TTL data to allow wirelessTTL to be performed with a Qflash head. The camera will have a Qflash 'D' TTL module on it, connected to a FreeXwire transmitter; with the Qflash at the other end equipped with one of the 3 receivers. This can also be done with multiple heads.

FreeXWire units are low consumption units, and conveniently run from 2 compact AAA batteries.

Useful Tip: FreeXwire units (FW8R/FW9T/FW10/FW10w) can be powered by a Bantam or QB1c battery via the XDC2 lead and by a QB1+ or QB1c battery via the MDC2 lead