1DmkIII and 580II

What, (besides control my 430) can I do with the 580II flash and 1DmkIII. Any good links I should be looking at. It seems I can contriol the functions of the 580II through my Flash CF's in the mkIII menu...I have very limited experience with the 430 (I use it, but not often) but I wanted to be able to conrol the 430 off camera for more creative lighting.
Any other cool things with thre mkIII/580II combo?
Thanks

I just test hand made flash bracket with 5D and 580EXII + 430 together ,very sharp pict .This weekend I have 1 wedding to shoot ...and I will try 580Ex II with 430EX combo+ Mk3 .

Will post some pict later .

Cool, just found a PDF manual for the 580II and have done a lot of research. Don't have the flash "in hand" yet but hoping to get to know it a bit before I get it so i'm not reading the manual while I have said flash in hand.
The last system I owned before Canon was a Sony a100, maybe..... the only thing.... I miss about the a100 was that the flash was controlled remotely, fun to place the unit in various locations to play with the light.

I have both flashes and I like the 580 EX II a lot better than the 430. Here are the reasons:

1.) More power
2.) Faster recycle time
3.) longer battery life
4.) **HUGE PLUS** I can control all of the flash functions (including custom functions) from my 40D. I don't have to have the flash manual with me to know what the custom functions are for.
5.) It has a pc port for pocket wizards
6.) The hotshoe lock is vastly improved AND weatherproof.
7.) The flash itself is weather-proof. Coupled with my 1D/70-200L the entire setup is weather-proof.
8.) I have not used this yet, but I am eager to: It has a strobe mode. You can do some pretty neat stuff with strobe mode.
9.) The controls are vastly improved in comparison with the 430EX
10.) I now have a wireless master so I can use the 430 as a slave.
11.) A cool little "catchlight" white card pops up out of the head to be used with bouncing.

Are these enough reasons?

Here is my custom bracket made by me It's combo of 580EXII on top + 430EX on the side + Battery pack for 580EXII and + PW .

What I do is ...I set my Alien Bees (2) where I need for group shot or family shot at the reception then turn PW on ,turn off 580 and 430 .

580 and 430 use only when I walk around for candid shot and then I turn off PW .The flash will spread out even to the photo ,the problem is if I only use 1 flash 580 the horizontal is ok ,but the vertical shot is not good enough ,the flash will not contribute even around the photo .So now when I add another flash on the side ,that would be enough flash for vertical shot .

That is so nice about 580EXII is that trigger the 430 .

I used my 5D with Metz to take the bracket sample ,so I don't have any photo of that set up yet ,I'll post the photo by this weekend .

^^ Talk about DIY!! How heavy is it?

**** dude, it looks like a MARS ROVER! If the camera was able to flip vertical, it would be 100% perfect. I like how you have the CP-E4 mounted.

emtp563 wrote in post #4616012
**** dude, it looks like a MARS ROVER! If the camera was able to flip vertical, it would be 100% perfect. I like how you have the CP-E4 mounted.

LOL

Wow, very cool setup. Can't wait to start experimenting

bagtagsell wrote in post #4615646
^^ Talk about DIY!! How heavy is it?

Very light weight ...because it's made out of aircraft alluminium (70 thousand of an inch thiskness).
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It's ingenious because it's so simple. The more I look at this the more I like it.

QX56 that's a kick ass setup! Very nice.

I like some thing is simple and get the work done quick and the quality of the photo is above good to perfect .

Thanks all .

This one is just 580EXII turn on 60degree up and white card bounce pull out , I turn off the 430 slave .

Here is some photo :

This is the vertical shot ,this time I had 430 turn on and 580 also on .If you look at the photo you see the shadow stay on the right side cause by the 580 .