Got 430EX, better than expected

Raymond Lin · 7 Mar 2007 at 13:51

mrk said:
i) On decent batteries it's very fast, i have never times it but then again i've never thought "oh that's not fast enough" and decided to time it to find out how long it it

ii) do you mean curtain sync flash? it does do that among some other things

I think by 2 he mean if you hold down the shutter release and shoot like a mini gun, will it flash for all the shots.

SDK^ · 7 Mar 2007 at 14:02

Download the 430EX manual - http://home.comcast.net/~cahla/430EX.pdf

rpstewart · 7 Mar 2007 at 14:39

Raymond Lin said:
I think by 2 he mean if you hold down the shutter release and shoot like a mini gun, will it flash for all the shots.

I don't think that's the question.

On the 550EX you can setup the flash to fire at a set frequency - 5Hz for example. If you then use a 1s exposure you get 5 bursts of flash during the exposure so the resultant image has 5 superimposed views of the scene.

I think scoop's wondering if you can do that on the 430EX.

mrk · 7 Mar 2007 at 14:50

rpstewart said:
I don't think that's the question.

On the 550EX you can setup the flash to fire at a set frequency - 5Hz for example. If you then use a 1s exposure you get 5 bursts of flash during the exposure so the resultant image has 5 superimposed views of the scene.

I think scoop's wondering if you can do that on the 430EX.

Ah that you cannot do but what Raymond says you can do

SDK^ · 7 Mar 2007 at 14:53

See my previous above

SDK^ said:
The 580EX has the following over the 430EX

Variable stroboscopic flash operation

Raymond Lin · 7 Mar 2007 at 14:53

rpstewart said:
I don't think that's the question.

On the 550EX you can setup the flash to fire at a set frequency - 5Hz for example. If you then use a 1s exposure you get 5 bursts of flash during the exposure so the resultant image has 5 superimposed views of the scene.

I think scoop's wondering if you can do that on the 430EX.

oooh, I have the 550EX, never tried that !

scoop · 7 Mar 2007 at 16:14

rpstewart said:
I don't think that's the question.

On the 550EX you can setup the flash to fire at a set frequency - 5Hz for example. If you then use a 1s exposure you get 5 bursts of flash during the exposure so the resultant image has 5 superimposed views of the scene.

I think scoop's wondering if you can do that on the 430EX.

Mr Stewart is indeed correct; poor phrasing on my part. I wondered if it perhaps had fixed rate stroboscopic ability, rather than the more flexible settings on the 580EX

Can be useful for some effects, but not really £100-worth of useful, IMO.