Canon Speedlite 580EX II - Manual (Page 35)

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With multiple Canon Speedlites having the wireless flash feature, you
can create various lighting effects with the same ease as using normal
E-TTL II autoflash.
The settings you input with the 580EX II (master unit) attached to the
camera are also automatically transmitted to the slave units which are
controlled by the master unit via wireless. Therefore, you need not
operate the slave unit(s) at all during the shoot.
The basic wireless set-up is illustrated below. All you need to do is set
the master unit to enable wireless E-TTL II autoflash (p.37).
Note that with Type-A cameras prior to the EOS-1D Mark ll and EOS
ELAN 7NE/ELAN 7N/30V/33V, E-TTL autoflash will be used instead.
About Wireless Flash
Positioning and Operation Range
80 o
x
M
15m
(32.8ft.)
(49.2ft.)
10m
8m (26.2ft.) 12m (39.4ft.)
Indoors
Outdoors
Any flash exposure compensation, high-speed sync (FP flash), FE lock,
FEB, manual flash, and stroboscopic flash settings set with the master
unit will all be automatically transmitted to the slave units.
Even with multiple slave units, all of them will be controlled in the same
way via wireless.
A 580EX II set as a slave unit can also be controlled by wireless by
Speedlite Transmitter ST-E2 (optional).
Hereinafter, the “master unit” will refer to a 580EX II attached to the
camera, and a “slave unit” will be a wireless 580EX II.
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