Sigma Super DG Wireless

Depends how keen you are with Electronics, you can use a TV remote as a trigger as well. Apparently the flash will detect certain signals and will trigger it off. The difficult is how to harness the remote onto the hotshoe....

btw, does anyone have or can send me a list on the menu of the Sigma 500 DG Super? Unfortuantely I don't have the manual and trying to guess what or how the controls work.

OK, I went home this afternoon at lunch to do some more testing of the Sigma 500 DG Super wireless config and this is what I discovered. I had the same overexposure problem I had last night but when I turned off the flash of the 500 DG, the other flash (420EX in this case) worked fine to illuminate the subject. I could adjust the flash ratio and the 420EX output varied accordingly. But whenever the 500 flash was turned on, I got overexposure. Well, at least I can use the 500 DG as a flashless master like the ST-E2.

Then I tried something else. The 500 DG flash head zoom was set to Manual 28mm. I switched it manually to 50mm which was the lens I was using and, surprise, surprise, the darn thing worked fine, even with the 500 DG flash turned on. I tried the other zoom settings and the flash still worked fine. Then I put it back to 28mm and ...overexposure!

Well, at least I know when the problem occurs and how to work around it. I'll see what Sigma has to say about this. Does anybody else experience the same thing when you put the flash head of the 500 DG Super manually (or set automatically when you first turn it on) to 28mm? Just curious.

If only I knew how to setup the Flash (going through the menu), then I can try it also and tell how it is like.

S230 wrote:
If only I knew how to setup the Flash (going through the menu), then I can try it also and tell how it is like.

I'll see what I can do for you. In the mean time, if you feel like paying with the flash, use the Mode switch to switch to ETTL, Manual, Multi and Wireless Remote Master and WIreless Remote SLave modes. The Wireless modes will show multiple lighting icons. And you'll know you're in Slave mode by the SL that shows on the LCD display.

Once you've set the mode, you can set the different parameters of that mode by pressing the SEL button and cycling through the different parameter options. And, of course, you select the options for the parameters by pressing the + or - button.

Except for the additional Optical Slave Mode that the 500 DG has which the 550EX doesn't, all the other functions are bascially the same as the 550EX (if you're familiar with the 550EX).

If there's a particular setting you'd like to know about, just holler and I'll give you the details on how to do it.