Wireless Flash Canon 430EX 2

[Cosha]

Howdy all,

I read that i could use my Hot shoe flash on a stand not connected to my camera (Canon 450D) and that my in built flash could trigger my hot shoe flash remotely?

I read and the re read my manuals, and they only hint that the only way i could do this was to have a 580ex (i think) as a master and my 430 as a slave unit?

could anyone help with with this?

im feeling i read wrong about the pop up flash triggering the flash!

Thanks for you help

[lukeap69]

Some Sony cameras and Nikon cameras can do that. Not Canon sorry.
What you read on your manual is correct, you need a 580EX (and II) or ST-E2 to remotely control your 430EX II if you would like to use E-TTL.

Or you can trigger it in manual mode using radio triggers like the expensive pocket wizard, less expensive skyport and cubersync, and the cheap ebay triggers (I have the CTR-301 and for my use, they work fine).

Cheers

[Cosha]

thank-you for clearing that up for me :D

[Sharon S]

I bought a speedotron digital slave trigger ,I only tried it last night hooked it up to my vivitar 285,then took a flash shot so my popup flash fired and the vivtar which was a distance away, was fired by the slave trigger.
This is what I bought.
http://www.adorama.com/SZ23504.html?searchinfo=speedotron+slave+trigger