Hi!
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> From: "Kotsinadelis, Peter (Peter)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 12:42 AM
> Subject: RE: EOS 550EX as macro flash
>
> 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
I've done some experiments with at max 550 + 2 x 420.
> 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
I didn't do that. I went the E-TTL route. But I can not see why you could
not do that with 550. Like Peter K said below...
> provisions are there? I currently have a 420EX, and get fairly decent
> results from that, but I want more control.
>
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> 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.
But then again, in the "lesser" cameras, you can not turn the automatic fill
off at all. So you will have to live with the auto-flash exposure
compensation - which I've never had problems with, although I do understand
that in some situations (macro shooting might be one of them) you might want
to have all automatics out of the way.
> Peter K
One thing would be, if you are not sort of money, to buy the 550EX and keep
the 420EX also. That way you'd get 2 flash heads to work with as 550EX could
command the 420EX wirelessly. With one of the flash cords (I do not remember
their names anymore) you could position both of the flash heads very close
to the lens and get almost ring light kind of effect.
Only problem with this is that you could not command the 420EX in manual
mode - you'd have to go E-TTL here.
Best regards,
Hugo.
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