BEEEsH Senior Member 652 posts Joined Mar 2005 Location: Toronto More info | Jun 10, 2008 12:12 | #1 A friend of mine has a d300 and a sb600. He goes into his menu as selects commander mode and suddenly he can fire off his flash remotely. EOS 5D MK II
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PacAce Cream of the Crop  26,900 posts Likes: 40 Joined Feb 2003 Location: Keystone State, USA More info | Jun 10, 2008 12:22 | #2 You can't. ...Leo
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BigMike Goldmember  1,023 posts Joined May 2006 Location: Edmonton More info | Jun 10, 2008 12:28 | #3 You can't do it with only the camera & flash...but there are plenty of other options. A good portion of posts in this section are relevant to this...so grab a coffee and start reading Instructor at The Canadian Photography Learning Centre
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Village_Idiot GREATEST POTN MEMBER EVER  3,695 posts Likes: 18 Joined Jan 2007 Location: Durt Burg, WV More info | Jun 10, 2008 12:35 | #4 Selling his camera and flash and buying a Nikon one would replicated that function fairly well. My village called. I was told that they missed me.
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Marbeck Senior Member  606 posts Joined Dec 2005 Location: Bridlington,UK More info | Jun 10, 2008 16:37 | #5 HA HA!!! Canon has us by the b---s agian. This really sucks and it would be nice if Canon followed suite and offered this to us. I wonder if there is a hack to do it. Any one know of one? Martin Birkbeck :Canon EOS 6D(Gripped)
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PacAce Cream of the Crop 26,900 posts Likes: 40 Joined Feb 2003 Location: Keystone State, USA More info | Jun 10, 2008 16:51 | #6 Marbeck wrote in post #5697677  HA HA!!! Canon has us by the b---s agian. This really sucks and it would be nice if Canon followed suite and offered this to us. I wonder if there is a hack to do it. Any one know of one? Yes, there are several versions of the hack. A few that come to mind are called 550EX, 580EX, 580EX II and ST-E2. ...Leo
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Jun 30, 2008 23:15 | #7 PacAce wrote in post #5697748 Yes, there are several versions of the hack. A few that come to mind are called 550EX, 580EX, 580EX II and ST-E2.    Thats a pretty crappy hack considering you'll need at least 2 of those units to pull it off. EOS 5D MK II
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Titus213 Cream of the Crop  More info | Jul 01, 2008 00:45 | #8 I detect buyer's remorse. You saw something your camera can't do and you want it. You have options, one of which is sell and buy a Nikon. Dave
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RowdyReptile Member  235 posts Joined Apr 2008 More info | Jul 01, 2008 10:14 | #9 Yep.. I just got a 580EX II and was talking to my Nikon friend. He was sure there was a way to have the Speedlite trigger when it sees my pop-up flash go off, but apparently not. Oh well. 6D, 50D
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inthedeck Cream of the Crop  More info | Jul 01, 2008 10:20 | #10 Sell the Canon. Switch to Nikon. It's the wave of the future. MCSquared Photography
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SolidxSnake Goldmember  1,656 posts Likes: 2 Joined Nov 2007 More info | Jul 01, 2008 11:13 | #11 RowdyReptile wrote in post #5827400 Yep.. I just got a 580EX II and was talking to my Nikon friend. He was sure there was a way to have the Speedlite trigger when it sees my pop-up flash go off, but apparently not. Oh well. Use an optical slave on the 580EX II and FEL lock on the camera. Not practical but it works. Troubleshooting 101 (see also: LightRules,perryge):
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newbiebuilder Senior Member 342 posts Joined Mar 2008 Location: Los Angeles, California More info | Jul 01, 2008 23:46 | #12 If you don't need TTL or high speed sync, then you can get some cactus v2s triggers for pretty cheap and fire your flash wirelessly.... www.evanrobinsonphotography.com
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