Downloadable Canon speedlite 430EX manual?

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- - 08 Dec 2006 14:52 GMT

I can't find my Canon Speedlite 430EX user-manual, and I'm wondering if
it's possible to download a PDF version of it somewhere?
I've searched the various Canon websites, but haven't been able to find
anything yet.

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3putt in South Carolina - 08 Dec 2006 15:03 GMT

>I can't find my Canon Speedlite 430EX user-manual, and I'm wondering if
> it's possible to download a PDF version of it somewhere?
> I've searched the various Canon websites, but haven't been able to find
> anything yet.

Here's one for the 580. Maybe it's close enough? Try this:
http://www.eosdoc.com/manuals/?q=580EX*

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- - 08 Dec 2006 15:43 GMT

> >I can't find my Canon Speedlite 430EX user-manual

> Here's one for the 580. Maybe it's close enough? Try this:
> http://www.eosdoc.com/manuals/?q=580EX*

Thanks! And after downloading it I came across the following thread:
http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=140049

.... where someone had made the 430EX manual available as well. Here's
the URl in case anyone else needs it:
http://www.groovydos.com/Tom/430EXManual.pdf

I don't have time to read the manual thoroughly right now, but am going
to take a lot of flash photography this weekend and could need some
quick advice. I don't understand why the camera's (EOS-350D) shutter
time becomes long even when I have the flash attached and turned on.
So up to now I've had to set the camera to the "green" mode in order to
use the flash without added shutter time.
Is there some simple way to set up the camera/flash together with say
the "Av" mode so I don't need a tripod because of the long shutter
time?
(considering myself as just a little beyond a newbie I feel this is the
"creative" mode I know the best, but the problem is there with all
creative modes).

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Gisle Hannemyr - 08 Dec 2006 16:16 GMT

> I don't understand why the camera's (EOS-350D) shutter time becomes
> long even when I have the flash attached and turned on. So up to
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> say the "Av" mode so I don't need a tripod because of the long
> shutter time?

Canon's E-TTL tends to default to fill-flash, which will give you
long shutter times if the ambient light is low.

To avoid this, you should not let the camera pick the shutter speed
(i.e use Tv or M - E-TTL still works in M, so if you pick sensible
values, the flash will give your foreground the light it needs).
Also, I think that in P and "green" mode, the shutter speed will not
be set longer than 1/60 second unless you used custom menus to change
this default.

For more on E-TTL flash, see:
http://hannemyr.com/photo/flash.html#ettl

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Dave - 11 Dec 2006 00:16 GMT

> > I don't understand why the camera's (EOS-350D) shutter time becomes
> > long even when I have the flash attached and turned on. So up to
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> Sigma SD10, Kodak DCS460, Canon Powershot G5, Olympus 2020Z
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I agree, just set the camera in M mode, use the flash's A mode (to
utilize the metering ability of the flash). The flash should receive
info about the camera's settings (ISO, f-stop, etc.) so that the proper
flash exposure is calculated. Just in case, set camera to F5.6, 1/60
sec.

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