On Thursday, October 31, 2002, at 05:07 PM, Jim Davis wrote:
If you put the flash (not camera body) into M mode it stays in that mode. If you turn the flash unit off and turn it back on it's still in M. The same applies to the low-power mode it goes into - when it wakes up it's still in M.I'm contemplating buying a used 430EZ - tell me, when you set the flash to M mode, does it reset every time it's switched off, or does it remember? And does it remember if it does it's auto off function (when still switched on but not in use for a minute)?
No, actually. I'm afraid you're confusing camera body M mode and flash M mode.I don't like ANY preflash myself, so I'd want to stay in manual mode. I assume manual mode means TTL all the time?
When the camera body is in manual (M) metering, the 430EZ will use TTL metering. If you set the *flash unit* to M mode then you have to specify the flash output yourself manually and use a flash meter - there is no TTL metering of any kind.
You use the camera body M mode to set manual ambient light metering and the flash body M mode to set manual flash metering.
I bought the 430EZ since it was the best cheap discontinued flash I could find at the time. I now wish I'd bought the 540EZ instead, simply because the 540EZ doesn't use A-TTL in Av and Tv modes and thus doesn't fire white light when you meter in those modes.
- NK Guy
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