Re: How to sync external flash w/350XT

On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 15:28:33 +0100, Gisle Hannemyr
<gisle+news@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Dennis Pogson" <dennis_nospampogson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Use a remote flash slave unit. Fires the remote flash when the
built-in flash fires. Pretty cheap.

Actually, a plain optical slave will fire whem the 350 XT's
pre-flash fires. Pretty useless.

(There exists special slave units that can be programmed to ignore the
pre-flash, but reports on their reliability is mixed..)

Really? I haven't seen this to any significant extent. Remember that
there are reports of poor reliability on just about all man-made
devices, to include pet rocks.
There are lots of flashes made specifically to work with digital; they
can be set to work on the first, second, third, etc. flash.
The only useless ones (for digital) are the older flashes designed
before digital became popular (technology-wise, a long time ago).
There a lot of them still being sold, though.

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