Well, B&H got me my replacement EF 500 Super today, and it seems to be fully functional. It's definitely not as solid as the 420EX, but seems adequate for my light-duty use.
I've got a couple of questions for those who already have one: one, what's the protrusion on the front of the stand that comes with it? Is it some kind of attachment for mounting an umbrella or something? It almost looks like it could fit into another hotshoe-sized thing. Second, how exactly do you set the appropriate power while in manual wireless slave mode? The manual says to "press the SEL button several times to make the flash output indicator blink;" I presume this is the distance scale. But no matter how many times I push the SEL button, I can't get the distance scale to appear. I can set the aperture and ISO manually, but no distance. Otherwise, it looks like a slick little unit...now I just need some victims, er, test subjects...to try it out on. ;-) --Alex * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
