I have two 550EXs, and an EOS3. I've found the wireless ratio control works well both indoors (unposed family snapshots) and outdoors (mushrooms), but I have been working well within the range limits stated by Canon. I did some controlled tests about a year ago using a dummy as a portrait model, and the (not very inspiring) results are available at www.megalith.freeserve.co.uk . The system is really is simple to use; but I do feel that, in some places, Canon could have made the instruction manual somewhat clearer. One feature which I have noticed is a variation in exposure level with fairly similar subjects, these being my grandchildren wearing typical baby garments with a satin appearance. I'm guessing that the variations might be due to specular reflection from shiny clothes fibres "fooling" the E-TTL system. Certainly when I scan the slides, I find a fair number of levels with value = 255. Yesterday I purchased an ST-E2 with the intention of doing fairly typical 2 brolly portraits, but without all those trailing wires I used to have. The ST-E2 seems rather easier to program than the 550EX. Hopefully the use of brollies will get over the exposure variation mentioned above.
M Stewart Milton Keynes, UK ----- Original Message ----- From: Gary Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 11:17 PM Subject: Re: EOS Wireless E-TTL and FEC snip > If anyone has two of these or even two 550s I would be curious how well this > type of set up works. > * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
