Godox flash trigger on an A99ii

This is probably going to sound very silly, but ...

The Godox transmitter will fit and work with the Sony A99ii
but
will it trigger Sony and Minolta flashguns ?

Can I use with a flash slave ?
They don't work without a slave and a pop-up flash (on my a65).

Thank you for any help/suggestions.
Bridget

BridgetC wrote: Sony A99ii ... Sony and Minolta flashguns ?

Let's start with the specific model numbers.

They don't work without a slave and a pop-up flash (on my a65).

I don't follow that. Does it mean you're attaching a slave to the flashes and using the A65's pop-up flash to trigger the slave?

Just thinking on -

Could I use the transmitter with one receiver, plus one slave (on the other flash - which is an old Minolta and hence I can only roughly set the power )

Thank you - sadly its all a matter of cost - its a great idea to do as you suggest, but cost-wise I cannot afford to spend that amount of money.

I am looking at buying a compatible transmitter and receiver separately over a couple of months through eBay or some other outlet.

Thank you for that.
I do have a Sony converter which I have used at times on the HLV 56 flash and Sony a99ii.

I've had a look on eBay, and the Phottix Odin sets seem more expensive than the Godox.

The slave works when any flash unit is used (on camera), so don't see why it won't activate when triggered by a stand-alone flash which is itself triggered from a transmitter. It will just mean I can't set the power, but I'm sure there are ways around that.
I doubt I'll use the set much after its initial planned use, so pointless spending a lot of money ...

I use the camera far more without flash, so in the end I can always stick with that and an off camera light ...

Anyway, all food for thought. I confess to having thoroughly confused myself, so will let it go to mull over now :)

Thank you everybody.

There's no problem with the slaves. They work very well with the pop-up flash on my old camera.

But the camera I have been using for stock work doesn't have a pop-up flash, so I was trying to devise an inexpensive way of triggering the flashes I have.

However, I've pretty much talked myself out of this now, as I probably wouldn't use it much.
It's difficult to justify the expense and I could possibly get by with a light.

Flash compatibility is a bit of a complex thing (understatement! )
MHohner's guide is pretty much reckoned to the be the bible on SOny/Minolta gear but radio wireless has introduced a whole nnew range of incompatibilities.

If you are looking for really cheap solutions, I can recommend a couple.
There are quite a lot of older flashguns that have manually settable power, and even the fixed-power ones can be used if you move them to and fro to get the relative light output you need. They can be triggered by cheap opto slaves BUT on many Sony cameras you cannot turn off the pre-trig flash and that triggers the slave before the shutter opens. You need a shoe-compatible master flash on your camera that can be set to simple non-auto flash. The little Meike 320 is one that does that.

The other approach which is still workable for a multi-flash setup is to use the old Vivitar 283/285 type flashes as slaves, which were self-auto, that is you set them to an aperture and they turned off the flash themselves when the light reached the correct amount. These can also be moved about to fine-tune the light output

Having said all that, the Godox TT350 and transmitter is not that expensive and much more capable.