I planning to buy a good Canon flash for my Canon Elan IIE. Could anyone suggest the various options available to me please.

Any Canon flash with reasonable price is O.K.

thanks much, Sri.

-- Sri (KANNESR@KELLYSERVICES.COM), March 01, 2001

Answers

Canon "E-TTL" speedlites are: MR-14EX, 220EX 380EX, 420EX and 550EX. All other EOS speedlites will also meter internally (TTL) with the Elan IIe, but with fewer features. See my web page:

-- Dave Herzstein (dherzstein@juno.com), March 02, 2001.

My web page: http://www.kjsl.com/~ dave/speedlites.html

-- Dave Herzstein (dherzstein@juno.com), March 02, 2001.

The 380EX was designed to go with the Elan IIE. If you don't need too much power, that's what I'd recommend. I think they run about $150 now. The 220EX is cheaper. The 420EX was introduced for the 7E. It has a few more features that might be worth extra money (about $40 more, I believe).

-- Todd Garlow (toddgarlow@hotmail.com), April 19, 2001.

if you have the money, go with the 550ex. stay away from the 380ex. If you can't afford the 550ex, go with the 420ex.

-- nguyen thang (nguyentnt@hotmail.com), April 20, 2001.