I use a 550EX and 420EX in a manner similar to your plans, which is to say I
use the 550 on the body and the 420 on a separate lightstand. I use a
Lumiquest UltraSoft on the 550 directly at the subject and the 420 is on a
standard Bogen 3322 light stand with a combination umbrella/tripod shoe
attachment into a small (about 30") cheapo umbrella.
You must already know about the extension cord; it is probably 60cm if two
weightlifters held it between them, but in practive it is MUCH shorter and
hard to stretch, so I just leave the 550 on the body.
Ultimately, I'd like to get another 550 so I could move the 420 to the
background, but there always seems to be something else to spend my $$$ on.
Tom P.
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From: "Hugo Gävert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 1:43 AM
Subject: EOS Studio with only Canon EX flashes?!?
Hi guys & gals!
Does anybody have experience about using the 550EX or rather 420EX flashes
with umbrellas or softboxes (like the ones from Elinchrom for example)?
What are your findings?
What I'm thinking about is a small (very small) home studio kind of setup
with one 550EX and 420EX flash (or two if I ever have the money :-). But
lighting from 2 or 3 flashes is still quite harsh... So I think I'd
need/want at least one umbrella for the 420EX. So a few quiestions:
1) Is 420EX really powerfull enough for umbrellas and/or softboxes?
2) How do you direct your EX flashes as there is no continuous modeling
light? Do you just aim everything (flashes, umbrellas, reflectors) and
hope for the best, or to you make everybody blind by constantly using the
modeling light from Camera? What do you guys do? (I can now see how those
studio flashes are easy to work with...)
3) How about the off shoe extension cord 2 - or what ever it is called,
can't remember now - you know, the 60cm long extension that takes the
flash off camera and still retains all E-TTL and wireless functions. How
is it for "general studio work"? (As opposed to macro work with flash
brackets...) I.e. is it too short and too stiff to be used so that the
flash would be on a tripod pointed to an umbrella and the camera would
otherwice be handheld (still in that home studio enviroment)? See, I'd
rather buy that than another 550EX (that I would use with flash off) or
ST-E2, which only allows A and B groups (Canon, if you are
listening... why would we buy that as it only controls the two groups?
We'd need the background too!), as it's quite a bit cheaper solution and I
still can control all A, B & C groups.
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