Ken Durling wrote: Would anyone care to share their experience with the (one or more) 550 light as a macro flash? I have a Tamron 90/2.8 that I dearly love and use mostly in available light. With my FD set-up I am more accustomed to using a (non-TTL) flash with a variable power setting at very low - 1/16, 1/32 - power settings as fill flash for very close macro work, where the light cannot be all that far from the subject, due to shadowing, cable length, etc. Can a similar approach be employed with the 550? Or whatever provisions are there? I currently have a 420EX, and get fairly decent results from that, but I want more control.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi Ken, You can set the 550EX to a manual exposure or you can also dial it + or -3EV from the exposure and use auto metering with this flash compensation. This depends a lot on the camera you are using too. On the EOS 3 you have to turn off the automatic fill which will override your auto-flash exposure compensation settings. I use the 105mm Sigma macro and have use the 550EX with it. Works very well. Try it out. Peter K * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
