Godox Xpro-N TTL Wireless Flash Trigger Transmitter for Nikon, 1/8000s HSS, TTL-Convert-Manual Function, Large Screen, 5 Dedicated Group Buttons,…

I’ve been using this trigger on my Nikon cameras and the Fiji version on my Fuji cameras for years. They have never failed me.

Now here’s the little know trick. Either the Fuji or Nikon triggers work with all manner of Godox flashes. I can put Nikon and Fuji speedlights on stands, along with my higher power 

Godox AD200

 and 

Godox AD600 Pro

. It doesn’t matter, and I can mix and match as I like, and they all work together, shooting with a Nikon or Fuji and the appropriate trigger.

UPDATE 09/25/18 – I was sent a replacement unit by Pergear, and the new unit works as advertised. I had one of my AD600’s set to low power and triggered it rapidly for 40-50 flashes and it didn’t drop a single flash.

I would strongly recommend testing the unit when it arrives, and if faulty request a replacement before you plan on taking it on a real shoot. That said, I look forward to using this on my next photo shoot. The interface improvements over the X1T are significant in my opinion.

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Original Review:

I wanted to like it, but out of the box I have two problems, one minor and one major:

1.) The battery meter display always shows more than 2 bars, no matter how fresh of batteries I put into it. I even tried another brand of battery, still two bars.

2.) The big one… it doesn’t trigger my AD600 strobes consistently. If I take 10 photos in a row it might actually trigger the strobe perhaps 5 times in a totally random manner. Sometimes it will work 3 shots in a row, only to drop the next three, sometimes it misses 1 out of 4, catches one, and drops 2… either way the miss percentage is much, much too high. I took it off the camera and use the manual trigger button on the XPro, but even using this method standing less than 6′ from the AD600, it still misses a larger percentage of triggers, even if I set the strobe to minimum power so it recycles pretty much instantly. This is with one strobe… I can only imagine the chaos if I tried to trigger both my AD600’s and both my DE300’s when doing studio work.

I updated the firmware to the newest version on both the XPro and both of my AD600, and this did not resolve either issue.

Note that my old X1T-N works perfectly. I can press the manual trigger button as fast as I like at 1/256 power and it misses maybe one out of a hundred shots if that.

I don’t know if I got a bad unit or what, but I’m not impressed. It’s too bad because the interface is leaps and bounds better than the clunky X1T, but I’ll take reliability over a pretty interface any day of the week.

So far so good…. Thankfully YouTube has good instructional videos

Excellent upgrade to the original Godox triggers. These have a more
intuitive interface than the previous models, and are priced to sell.

I have a Fuji XT2 and a Nikon Z7 with a bunch of Nikon flashes. Purchased the XPro-N and -F triggers together with the X1R-N (Nikon receiver). Godox Nikon trigger and receiver works flawlessly on the Z7, and better than I expected with control over iTTL that works as well if not more consistently than the CLS (optical) that I have been using to date. Group controls, HSS and remote zooming of speedlites also work really well.

Flash with a Fuji has always been a vexing question for me: I don’t want to buy more proprietary flashes. Purchasing the Godox trigger was a bit of a science experiment: would it trigger Nikon flashes through the XPro-N, and what control would I have. Result: full manual control including group management, remote zoom, and High Speed Sync! This opens up a whole new world of application for my XT-2.

Great quality and the functionality, reliability (so far) and consistency of output through the Godox system is sweet.

This is a very good addition to this flash system. I just wish that the instructions could have been a bit more clear and detailed.