Problem with your X1TN and your Nikon D750? I can help.
When I started out my professional photography career I was purchased a set of Pocket Wizards and 4 Nikon flashes and thought I was set for life - it seemed all of the guys I looked up to had been using the same core lighting gear for over a decade and I should be able to as well. Time and time again I was frustrated with mis-fires, blocked signals or the occasional gremlins that seemed to plague me at critical moments. As a rapid paced wedding photographer - quick portable off camera lighting is the most important thing in my kit. After a particularly frustrating wedding I went to BNH and ordered one of everything.
Among the varying solutions in the box that was brought by the UPS guy was a set of V850s and the accompanying triggers. I quickly fell in love with the Ving (Godox / Cheetah / Flashpoint) system and immediatly ordered several more to complete my kit.
When they released the X1TN I was probably the first in line to give it a try. I was thrilled that the same great trigger functionality was still there and that they had added not just greater range and also focus assist on the trigger! It was a perfect upgrade to my run and gun system and the focus assist made my work at dark receptions so much more accurate.
Sounds too good to be true right? Well a couple of weeks ago Godox released a new version of their firmware (v19 as I am writing this) but it broke the focus assist functionality. I tested this one all 4 of my Nikon D750 camera bodies and all 3 of my triggers... I was crushed. I had become quite reliant on that focus assist and didn't want to go back to what I considered to be the "dark ages".
I have spent the last 3 weeks digging to see if I could revert my X1TN firmware but they don't have an archive on their site and no one else seems to have a copy as well... so when I stumbled across v15 of the firmware sitting in my downloads folder I couldn't believe it.
Two of my triggers were first gen - I downgraded them from v19 to v15 and the focus assist works again. I purchased a 3rd trigger hoping it would have the correct firmware on it (it is a new version) but it came with v19... good news it downgraded just fine to v15. As I type this the whole kit is running V15 and focus assist it working perfectly.
Here is a link to download the v15 of the firmware for the X1TN.
I hope this helps - good luck and happy OCFing! :)
EDIT: I was hosting the firmware on Google drive but I moved it so that accessing the archive should be easier.
A celebration that contains mini-celebrations.
Weddings are massive celebrations that contain smaller much different micro-celebrations. Sometimes it is when two people, who have been separated by distance for a long time, finally see each other again and other times it is a profound moment of thankfulness like this one of our groom Trey right after he was officially declared husband to his wife Jessica.
We feel you Trey.
Engagement session at the Kookaburra.
Lindsay and Geoff canoodle at the Kookaburra
A couple times a week I get an email asking me if we do couples / engagement sessions. I always respond with "heck ya" but I figured I should start posting more of the awesome images we get to capture on these sessions - like this one of Lindsay and Geoff. Their favorite hangout is the Kookaburra here in St. Augustine so we stopped by, enjoyed the best cup of coffee in town and snapped a few awesome photos. I can't wait for their wedding next month!