About Wireless Flash - Canon 580EX - Speedlite II - Hot-shoe clip-on Flash Instruction Manual

About Wireless Flash
With multiple Canon Speedlites having the wireless flash feature, you can
create various lighting effects with the same ease as using normal E-7TL II
autoflash.
The settings you input with the 580E?C master unit) attached to the camera are
also transmitted to the slave units which are controlled 6y the master unit via
wireless . Thus, you need not operate the slave units at ail during the shoot.
The basic wireless set-up is illustrated below. Then elf you do is set the master
unit to < ETTL> and wireless E-TTL If autoflash will be enabled (p.34) . Note
that with Type-A cameras prior to the Cfl5-10 Mark 11 and EOS ELAfV 7N E/
FLAN 7N/30V/33V, E-Tf'L autoflash will be used instead .
Basic Wireless Settings & Setup
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8m (26.2ft .) 12m (39 .4tt.)
P Any clash exposure compensation amount, high-speed sync {FP flash}, FE lock, FE 8
amount, manual flash, and stroboscopic flash settings set with the master unit will all
he automatically transmitted to the slave units .
a Even with rtiu[tiplr; Speedlies positioned as slave units, elf will be controlled by vrireless .
e A SSOEX set as a slave unit can also he controlled by wireless by Speed lite Transmitter
STE2 (optional) .
. Hereinafter, the "master unit" will refer to a 580Ex se[ as the master unit. and a
wirelessly-Cnnirofled "slave unit" will he a 580 EH set as the slave unit .
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