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New Canon Speedlites and ST-E3!
Marsu42:
--- Quote from: FunPhotons on June 26, 2012, 09:04:56 AM ---Presumably Canon is being conservative, and it doesn't work with all prior camera bodies, but I haven't heard of any tests with anything other than a 5DMKII.
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Thanks - one more reason for me to save the money and get "just" a 5d2 now. Btw: the article says it works even on the 60d just fine: http://pixsylated.com/blog/canon-600ex-rt-first-impressions/
Daniel Flather:
--- Quote from: DarkKnightNine on June 17, 2012, 08:10:48 PM ---
--- Quote from: Daniel Flather on June 05, 2012, 04:01:27 PM ---I have two 600ex-rts on order; when will the ST-E3-RT be available? No one seems to have the ST-E3-RT.
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I have it and been using it for a while, what would you like to know? Shot the attached picture with it and two 600EX-RTs outside in the rain.
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I've had it for a few weeks now, and it works quite well.
Infrared_Fred:
Surprisingly enough the ST E3 and the 600EX RT also work with both the T3i & the recently announced T4i ,also the 600's do have AF assist beams and they will exchange data back and forth with the body, and Canon Technical support Has told me told me that there is away of running IR/Radio at the same time because i specifically talked about running my MT 24 EX optically and then without time to de rig shooting optically with my 600 EX RT's.
Marsu42:
--- Quote from: Infrared_Fred on June 30, 2012, 06:43:00 AM ---and Canon Technical support Has told me told me that there is away of running IR/Radio at the same time because i specifically talked about running my MT 24 EX optically and then without time to de rig shooting optically with my 600 EX RT's.
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Unfortunately, there definitely is _no_way_ to use the 600rt optical and radio remote _at_the_same_time_, I guess it would be possible technically, but the flash firmware simply isn't build this way. I guess Canon wants to sell new rt units and maybe the upcoming rt receivers by blocking a mixed legacy path.
But you can simply cycle through the various master/slave/hotshoe modes with the new remote button on the left side, so maybe that's what Canon told you about quickly switching modes.
Btw, the other way around is also possible - you can set a cf to disable all rt or ir functionality if you only have the respective remote equipment to avoid confusion.
Lawliet:
Mixed mode would have one drawback: you need time to account for all the preflashing going on.
Getting rid of the morse from the controller allows for those two additional groups, combining both modes would likely come with a mess of use cases not unlike the compatibility charts for F-mount.
Now putting the ST-E3 on top of a TTl-passthrough trigger not only gives the legacy flashes something to do but also doubles as the missing individual/manual group.
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