how can i use 2x flash with 20D

hi
i just wantt o know if i can use 2 flash units with my 20D.
i have a 380Ex speed light with a hotshoe cable i want to hook up another flash to the camera can this be done ? and how

i also have a pc cord connection socket on the side of the camera can i plug another flash there at the same time as hotshoe?

many thanks for the help

1 on hotshoe, 1 via pc sync will work.

Canon400 wrote in post #5403574
hi
i just wantt o know if i can use 2 flash units with my 20D.
i have a 380Ex speed light with a hotshoe cable i want to hook up another flash to the camera can this be done ? and how

i also have a pc cord connection socket on the side of the camera can i plug another flash there at the same time as hotshoe?

many thanks for the help

You can use the hotshoe and the PC connector both at the same time. I think this is stated explicitly in the owners manual.

Enjoy! Lon

Of course, if you use the PC terminal to trigger a flash, you should set ALL of your flash equipment and your camera's exposure control to manual mode. ETTL and manually triggered flash equipment don't add up to automated ability to control exposures.

what flash units will take pc connections? i know the 380ex only takes shoe cable

Canon400 wrote in post #5404310
what flash units will take pc connections? i know the 380ex only takes shoe cable

There are likely hundreds of different hotshoe based flash units that will accept some sort of sync cord directly with a plug in port. A subset of those will accept the PC sync connector.

And, there are hundreds of hotshoe based flash units that have no built in sync port, so the hotshoe is the only way to access sync on those.

Enjoy! Lon

What about the use of a *slave* on the other flash?