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Aug 04, 2008 19:36 |  #1

580EX2.
can you change ETTL to ETTL II or is this automatically sensed by the camera body?
Im using 5D and 1DMk.2.
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Aug 04, 2008 19:44 |  #2

The 580EX II is ETTL and ETTL-II compatible. It's the camera that determines if the flash is going to operate in ETTL or ETTL-II. Both the 5D and the 1DmkII use ETTL-II for flash exposures. The last camera bodies to support ETTL were the 10D and the DRebel (300D). All cameras since are ETTL-II.


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Aug 04, 2008 19:50 |  #3

PacAce wrote in post #6046840 (external link)
The 580EX II is ETTL and ETTL-II compatible. It's the camera that determines if the flash is going to operate in ETTL or ETTL-II. Both the 5D and the 1DmkII use ETTL-II for flash exposures. The last camera bodies to support ETTL was the 10D and the DRebel (300D). All cameras since are ETTL-II.

Thanks, Leo.
Its a bit ambiguous in the operators manual.
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