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New Canon Speedlites and ST-E3!
AvTvM:
--- Quote from: roumin on April 12, 2012, 11:31:04 PM ---I just got my ST-E3 and the 600EX and the only 2 sync options are first curtain and HSS - NO second curtain option.
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Canon is charging outrageous prices for the new flashes and ST-E3 but did NOT update their ancient wireless ETTL-protocol to include flash on 2nd curtain. It is ridiculous and a real shame and one of the reasons I am holding off from buying an RT-set.
The Phottix Odin however enables 2nd curtain flash with Canon Speedlites, including 580EX/II and 430EX/II. It is obvioulsy neither difficult nor costly to include 2nd curtain flash in a radio trigger protocol. The Odin also allows triggering of monolights - even in mixed sets with Canon Speedlites.
I will wait to see, whether or not Canon brings out RT-receivers to include existing Speedlites (especially 580/II and 430/II) as well as monolights in a wireless setup and updates their wireless ETTL-protocol to include 2nd curtain flash.
These 2 features [2nd curtain, RF-triggers for existing speedlites and monolights] will be important factors in my decision on how to replace my 7D plus EF-S and EF glass in the future. The longer Canon drags its feet on this, the higher tNikon's chance to also bring out radio flash triggering with full iTTL support. :-)
briansquibb:
I have always enabled 2nd curtain in the camera not the flash ...
AvTvM:
--- Quote from: briansquibb on April 13, 2012, 04:42:39 AM ---I have always enabled 2nd curtain in the camera not the flash ...
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this will only work with Speedlites in the hotshoe or connectd to the hotshoe via cable.
If you are using speedlites on a wireless connection - both the "old" optical method or RT/radio - you will not get flash on the 2nd curtain using Canon-only gear. 2nd curtain flash is simply not implemented in Canon's wireless ETTL-protocol.
Phottix Odins however seem to be capable of this (not tested myself, and no idea, how exactly they get htis to work), don't know about other third party radio triggers (PW-Flex, RadioPoppers) ...
I don't care, HOW Canon implements it, I just want them to do it ... quickly! It should really, really have been included with the new set of radio-trigger flashes (600EX-RT) and controller (ST-E3-RT).
Marsu42:
--- Quote from: AvTvM on April 13, 2012, 07:01:53 AM ---If you are using speedlites on a wireless connection - both the "old" optical method or RT/radio - you will not get flash on the 2nd curtain using Canon-only gear. 2nd curtain flash is simply not implemented in Canon's wireless ETTL-protocol.
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You're correct - I only discovered that after I got my 480ex2 flash. It's ridiculous I can use hss sync and not x-sync when operating it on infrared, and imho it is plausible that this is a shortcoming of the ettl protocol. As it is, it ruins the creativity for sport shots with non-direct flash.
Strobe the globe:
I have recently bought the Canon Speedlite 600EX-RT flash, and I did an "Unboxing Hands-On Video Review", if you're interested ...
Canon Speedlite 600EX-RT - Unboxing & First Look
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I'm super happy with it! It has great power when zoomed in e.g. illuminating faces very well when zoomed in to 200mm shooting more than 10 meters away from my subject.
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