318AF Digital Slave Flash For The Canon Digital Rebel T1i (EOS 500D) SLR Camera

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Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B00282WJ4I
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: March 31, 2010

Product Description

The device is workable for both direct hot shoe photography (when switches to Normal mode) and remote flash photography (when switches to Slave On mode. The device features 4 slave modes that allow it to work with cameras that fire their built-in flash instantaneously or that have single or multiple flash red-eye reduction systems. Please check your camera's owner manual to determine which flash system your camera has. The flash comes complete with a bracket. It has a hot shoe so that it can be fired from the camera too. It is fully synchronized with fill-in flash and red-eye reduction flash and can be used with virtually all of the digital cameras on the market. It works as a slave. It can be set for a single flash camera or a pre-flash camera.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Slave Flash, January 25, 2012

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This review is from: 318AF Digital Slave Flash For The Canon Digital Rebel T1i (EOS 500D) SLR Camera (Electronics)

The description says it's a slave flash for the Canon T1i. Unfortunately it's not an external flash for it. It doesn't work correctly in the hotshoe. The camera doesn't recognize it, so you can't set it up in the camera menu. You can't control the exposure so it fires at full brightness and whites everything out. The slave works fine, but not as described. The manual says it will fire after a certain number of flashes depending on the setting you choose, but no matter what slave setting you have it on, it fires as soon as it detects the flash from the camera. The difference in the settings seems to be the timing of the flash. I found that S2 was the correct timing for the best lighting for the camera.

Bottom line... If you need a slave flash for your camera, this is a good price for one. The description is misleading. This is not a flash for the Canon T1i. It's a flash for any camera when used as a slave. If you're looking for a flash for the hotshoe that's compatible with your camera, good luck.