On Tuesday, December 10, 2002, at 01:07 AM, Steven Kefford wrote:
I think you are confusing the issue. The discussion is about the remoteActually, I don't think I'm confusing the issue, though I may not have explained things as clearly as I could have.
firing using ST-E2. This is done by infra-red, which has nothing to do with
the light coverage of the flash. The flip-down wide angle adapter has no
effect at all on the infra-red transmission.
- The ST-E2 has a small flash tube, filtered to produce infrared energy and not visible light. This tube is used to send command signals to wireless E-TTL slave units.
- The 550EX, by contrast, uses its main flash tube, unfiltered, to send visible-light command signals to slaves. Its wireless control range is thus both greater and wider than the ST-E2 according to a post by Canon's Chuck Westfall.
The previous poster was having problems using one 550EX to master another and asked if the ST-E2 would help him. I suspect it wouldn't.
- NK Guy
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