Why a different strob for Digital cam?

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Phil - 31 Aug 2006 17:25 GMT

Why can't I use my 430 EZ with my new rebel XT/350 camera. Is the curtain
setting and consideration?

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Todd H. - 31 Aug 2006 20:04 GMT

> Why can't I use my 430 EZ with my new rebel XT/350 camera. Is the curtain
> setting and consideration?

Nah, it's the difference between A-TTL (a la the original Elan et al)
and E-TTL Elan 2 and all the digital stuff. EZ vs EX...

Yeah, it's a pain in the a.s and quite irritating. I had to get a
new flash too starting with my Canon G2.

More here
http://photonotes.org/articles/eos-flash/

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http://www.toddh.net/

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George K - 31 Aug 2006 21:54 GMT

You can. You will have manually adjust your flash. You can not use
newer A-TTL and E-TTL modes. See pages 101 and 102 of your camera's
manual. You will be shooting at or less than 1/200th sec in the manual
flash mode.

> Why can't I use my 430 EZ with my new rebel XT/350 camera. Is the curtain
> setting and consideration?

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Todd H. - 01 Sep 2006 05:11 GMT

> > Why can't I use my 430 EZ with my new rebel XT/350 camera. Is the curtain
> > setting and consideration?
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> manual. You will be shooting at or less than 1/200th sec in the manual
> flash mode.

And if you will be annoyed. And your batteries will die quickly. :-0
In this mode, the flash will be dumping full power unless you dial it
down. Totally annoying to have a wonderful TTL flash system and then
have to go back to those lovely distance calculation days.

What sucks is that the digital E-TTL bodies weren't designed backwards
compatible to A-TTL so you can't even do that (which seemed to be a
fine flash system) even though your flash can.

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Todd H.
http://www.toddh.net/

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