From an email
“Hey that small flash you posted about before PMA will be a reality on March 25.”
It only makes sense to have a better small flash, but making sense doesn't matter. :)
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if they updated the 220EX to have a bounce head, they’d sell like hotcakes, but they’d eat into the 430EX’s sales.
that’s the only thing that’s keeping me from getting a 220… it’s ancient, non-bounce design.
Well, it wouldbarely eat into the 430EX sales if it didn’t have a manual or slave mode.
Not to mention the 220EX isn’t as powerful as the 430EX, if I’m not mistaken…
-Mario
nowhere near as powerful, the Canon Nomenclature system for flash is the ### in front of the EX is the guide number in decimeters. For example the 580EX (I and II) have a guide number of 58m at ISO 100, @105mm. Personally I haven’t had success withbounce flash TTL, though bounce flash manual mode has proved very effective. I hope they add manual and keep the low guide number. Personally I would like them to put a slave mode in it as well, just so people who start off with an on camera flash can use it as a remote if they like flash photos and want to upgrade their main uinit to a 580EX II, though you correctly point out that this would eat into the 430EX sales, so I doubt that will happen.
I’d like a small one just so I could have the AF assist beam/grid for low light shots with the 5D2.
Of course, swivel bounce head, manual controls and pc sync port would be great too. ;)
only if new EX220 can work as slave flash, it is worth to expect.