topic Re: Old speedlite 420EZ, will it work with digital. in Speedlite Flashes

Old speedlite 420EZ, will it work with digital.

rb935 — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 20:59:36 GMT

Re: Old speedlite 420EZ, will it work with digital.

Tiffany — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 21:12:49 GMT

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Re: Old speedlite 420EZ, will it work with digital.

rb935 — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 21:27:27 GMT

I am using EOS6D

Re: Old speedlite 420EZ, will it work with digital.

rb935 — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 21:28:45 GMT

I am using EOS 6D

Re: Old speedlite 420EZ, will it work with digital.

Skirball — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 23:05:22 GMT

I will work in manual mode only, no TTL.

Re: Old speedlite 420EZ, will it work with digital.

rb935 — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 23:27:52 GMT

Thanks, that was the answer I thought,I would get. Can this work as a slave to a Metz 44 AF-1?

Re: Old speedlite 420EZ, will it work with digital.

Skirball — Thu, 30 Oct 2014 00:13:35 GMT

I doubt it. Canon is notoriously bad about not putting in old fashion optical slaves in their flashes. But maybe they did with the old EZ line?

If not you can get a trigger for it, like the Wein optical peanuts. They're fairly cheap. Or, if you're just going to shoot in manual get a cheap set of Yongnuo triggers for $30 and get both your flashes off-camera, using RF instead of line of sight. But if you're going to use eTTL (on-camera) you'll have to use an optical trigger - most the cheap RF triggers don't have eTTL pass-through.

Re: Old speedlite 420EZ, will it work with digital.

MikeSowsun — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 15:53:04 GMT

Regular optical slaves do not work well with the 430EZ flash or any other EZ flash. There is something in the advanced circutry that causes problems.

What hapens is they will fire just once and then lock up. If you turn them off and than back on it will fire again, but as soon as the optical slave trips them again, they lock up once more.

You could use radio triggers but the other problem is that the 430EZ has a "sleep mode" that can not be disabled.