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I am using IMPACT SCS-M18 (https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/586996-REG/Impact_8091020_Mini_Phono_Plug_to.html) - it was purchased at a local camera store....I have returned EF-X500 to the Fuji Repair folks and awaiting to find out their decision. In future I will hesitate to use my Pocket Wizard...my Canon EX500 has a direct connection port and I never had a problem..

I discovered that I have an extreme wide angle lens I did not recognise. It might be useful to know for anyone who has this lens.
 
I have the Samyang 8mm fisheye. A few days back, I noticed that Adobe Camera RAW has a profile for it on an X-camera. Clicked to see what would happen and it was rendered as rectilinear. It pretty much retains the short side, but crops a bit on the long side. No idea what focal length is the equivalent, but clearly all the problems of shooting super-wide are there. If the camera is tilted, the foreshortening is dramatic. With the camera straight with the world, lines are straight and perspective is profound.
 

Thanks for the update. Sorry about your flash. Hope it was just a bad flash that they can remedy for you. Were you using this connector? 
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1000498-REG

Hello...I am new to the Fuji X Forum. My photography journey started with a Canon in 2010 and I switched to the X-T1 in 2014 and now also own X-T2. Between 2010-2013 I focused on scenic photography. Since 2013 I expanded my interests and now enjoy wildlife, birds and cultural portrait photography...I have different lenses for different situations from street photos, portraits, birds and scenic.. (10-24, 23, 35, 16-55, 56, 50-14 & 100-400). I just purchased the EF-X500 Flash. I live in Orlando, Florida, USA.

In manual mode, flashes can be fired in one of two ways. You can attach pc sync cables from the camera to the flash, or you can use a wireless trigger. If you go wireless, then each flash needs either a receiver or an optical slave to fire the flash once it gets the signal from the trigger in the hotshoe of your camera. Some flashes have an optical slave built in - if not, you can buy a small attachment that has a slave cell in it. An optical slave reads the flash of a triggered light, and fires along with it.

If you are using speed lights as your lights, particularly when you are using lights from different manufacturers, it is worth it to invest in some basic, manual only triggers that have a hot shoe on them. That way you always have a method of connection if a speed light doesn't have a 3.5 mm jack or a pc port. I don't know much about the different Yongnou triggers and their comparability capabilities . But Phottix has some rock solid trigger/receiver units. So does Cactus. And the Cactus v6 triggers sync up to 1/1000 sec which is nice if you have a Fuji x-100 system which can sync at any shutter speed.

Hi Lee, Yes, just to confirm what you say in your second post: the only way (at present) that you can have TTL function in a remote X500 is to put a second X500 in the hotshoe as a commander unit: a rather expensive option! However I find that the little EF-X8 that comes with the XT-1/X-T2 works well as a simple commander. The remote X500 is switched to the Remote setting; if the EF-X8 master in the camera hotshoe is set to Commander or Manual, then the remote X500 must be in N mode. If the EF-X8 in the hotshoe is being used in TTL mode, the remote X500 must be in P mode.  
But I find it altogether simpler to use a set of cheap Yongnuo radio triggers, in which case the remote X500 is switched to the simple On setting (NOT Remote - that's for the optical (IR) triggering) and is of course in Manual mode.
I do like the X500, though: apart from its lack of a radio triggering system, I think it's a well-specified flash and easy to use.

I haven't seen an EF-X500, but if there is a pc port or 3.5 mm jack port, you should be able to connect a pocket wizard to the flash. But since pocket wizards are manual only triggers, your settings are dependent upon the exposure you want. You'll need to meter the flash and set accordingly, or take test shots and adjust using the histogram. You need to shoot in manual mode, with shutter speed at or below the sync speed of the camera.

Hello...I am new to the Fuji X Forum. My photography journey started with a Canon in 2010 and I switched to the X-T1 in 2014 and now also own X-T2. Between 2010-2013 I focused on scenic photography. Since 2013 I expanded my interests and now enjoy wildlife, birds and cultural portrait photography...I have different lenses for different situations from street photos, portraits, birds and scenic.. (10-24, 23, 35, 16-55, 56, 50-14 & 100-400). I just purchased the EF-X500 Flash. I live in Orlando, Florida, USA.