Sync cabel and Canon 400D

Hi ppl... I feel so bad... I dont know how to connect my Canon 400D with my Lamps :P... I have sync cord but I dont know where to put it :PPP I wanna connect one Lamp with Camera using sync cord second one will be using photocell :PP

You need a hot shoe adapter to fit in your hot shoe on your 400D since you don't have a sync cable port. See MichaelBass Designs blog, or FlashZebra.com.

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You'll probably find one cheaper in an actual store. The $5 sounds nice, but the shipping for it is $10... You'll get a better price in a brick and mortar store.

Until you get one, you can set your Custom Functions to disable ETTL, and shut off the pre-flash. Then you can fire them both as optical slaves in the meanwhile.

braduardo wrote in post #4143256
You'll probably find one cheaper in an actual store. The $5 sounds nice, but the shipping for it is $10... You'll get a better price in a brick and mortar store.

Until you get one, you can set your Custom Functions to disable ETTL, and shut off the pre-flash. Then you can fire them both as optical slaves in the meanwhile.

What custom functions are these? As far as I'm aware you can't disable ETTL on the 400D.

lakiluno wrote in post #4143301
What custom functions are these? As far as I'm aware you can't disable ETTL on the 400D.

That I don't know off the top of my head, but I'm sure they are hidden away either in the regular menu or the CF menus.

I had to do this a while back, because the PW unit in my strobe wasn't working, and I didn't want to use the PC cables.

braduardo wrote in post #4143256
Until you get one, you can set your Custom Functions to disable ETTL, and shut off the pre-flash. Then you can fire them both as optical slaves in the meanwhile.

Sadly, you can't disable the preflash on any of the Canon DSLR's.
Rather odd, considering you can do it on most of the compacts.

Moppie wrote in post #4143365
Sadly, you can't disable the preflash on any of the Canon DSLR's.
Rather odd, considering you can do it on most of the compacts.

I know for sure that you can, because I have done it... Let me just see how I do it... Hmm... AAAAHHHHH... I used my 430EX to do it. I put it on manual mode and really low power.

Sorry about that. I could have sworn I was able to do it with just the camera.

You can turn off the flash on an off camera flash (i.e. a 430ex) and some ex series speedlites let you work in manual mode, which has no pre-flash.

But, you can not disable the pre-flash on the on-board flash.

wow, lucky this thread is fresh, as i was about to ask the same question..

last night (in one of the photo classes i'm doing) we looked at portraiture and they were using the sync cable, but my 400D wasn't special enough.. now i gotta go see how much the adapter is and who stocks it..

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so solved right ?? need hotshoe... should be in my house in couple days... I moved out from Brooklyn for few month and place where I leave now its like Ghost town so no chance to find anything for cameras...