hey,

can i fit a dedicated flash to an EOS 500? which would anyone recomend?

Tom.

-- Tom Hodgson (tom_doleclothing@hotmail.com), March 02, 2002

Answers

Any Canon E, EZ or EX series Speedlite. Your 500 is not capable of Canon's newer E-TTL flash metering, so the EX series will have features you won't be able to use, but they will work fine.

Also any third party flash that is dedicated to the EOS system should work well with the EOS 500. There are lots of them and keep in mind that you usually get better quality an more features for more money.

-- Jim Strutz (j.strutz@gci.net), March 02, 2002.

be aware that EX-series flashes, while working, will only support regular TTL, not even A-TTL! For A-TTL you'll need an EZ-series line of flash.

if all this means nothing to you, I'm sure 'NK guy' will post a link to his excellent EOS flash resource. i forgot the url at the moment.

-- m. lohninger (anavrin@mac.com), March 02, 2002.

nevermind, here is the link: http://teladesign.com/photo/eos-flash/

-- m. lohninger (anavrin@mac.com), March 02, 2002.

Thanks for posting the link, m. lohninger! I'm sure regulars here are tired of me just posting my URL in response to nearly all the flash questions... :)

-- NK Guy (tela@tela.bc.ca), March 02, 2002.

no, no! i'm glad. this forum has the same questions week after week. it's ridiculous to answer them over again every time.

i wish this forum was a bit more like the EOS e-list...

-- m. lohninger (anavrin@mailandnews.com), March 02, 2002.

yep. thats the reason for this

http://greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=008C7S

-- sajeev (chack74@yahoo.co.in), March 04, 2002.

something got screwed up in the url. try this

Some suggestions (sajeev)

-- sajeev (chack74@yahoo.co.in), March 04, 2002.