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Err, please excuse my extremely noob questions, but I couldn't find any manual on how to do it anywhere.. I recently got a budget radio trigger, and I've managed to hook everything up--transmitter on hot shoe, receiver on strobe. The test button on the gadget works fine when pressed, meaning the strobe does fire and the receiver's red light blinks to indicate it "read" the firing signal. But when I actually press the camera button itself to take the photo, nothing happens. Any suggestions? Doesn't the camera's hot shoe work automatically when something is in it, whether it's a flash or radio transmitter? Also, do hot shoe transmitters need to be pc synch-corded to the camera? Can't it just work with the hot shoe cordlessly?

Thanks in advance, really appreciate any help this way...