Red Eye In Digital

Hello all in this digital world we are now shooting in and together finding the glitches together.

My thing is that I seem to get more red eye then ever before when I use digital than when I used film when shooting the same way.

Flash mounted on a Stroble Fram Bracket and away from the lens but red eye is more captured then when I shot like this with film??? WHY...

I shot a fitness fashion Show in a badly Florecent lighting building with Flash just mounted on Camera using the 550EX and a 7--200 IS 2.8 lens by Cannon and Red eye was everywhere. Camera Cannon 10D

I tried using the diffuser on the flash and angling it slightly away from the model but still had red Eye and not just on the Blue Eyed models.

So I guess i am wondering is that "How far does this flash have to be azway from the lens to stop REd Eye......while mounted on a Stroble Frame.

Also is that RED EYE funtion on the camera do anything for me when I use the shoe mounted flash or on a bracket??

Help...digitaly confused.

Whether a camera is digital or film shouldn't really affect the number of red-eye shots you are getting. There's nothing about digital per se that makes it more prone to red-eye shots than film. However, having said that, I can imagine why you might be getting more red-eye shots with digital than with film. Using the same lens, to get a similar shot with digital as you would with film, you would have to step back a little bit more, increasing the distance between the flash and the subject. And that decreases the distance between the flash and the lens, relative to the distance of the subject and that, in turn, translates into red-eye shots. Have you considered switching to a longer/higher bracket such as the Stroboframe Pro-RL?