Canon SL2 and 430EX III RT

[HorHey9000]

Was wondering if this combo is compatible to use a the camera's flash as a slave to fire the 430 wirelessly. I just dug into the menus of both devices and its looking like its not.

Can anybody help me out?

Thanks in advance.

[TTMartin]

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@HorHey9000 wrote:

Was wondering if this combo is compatible to use a the camera's flash as a slave to fire the 430 wirelessly. I just dug into the menus of both devices and its looking like its not.

Can anybody help me out?

Thanks in advance.

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The camera's built in flash would have to be the Master. I don't recall seeing that as a feature of the SL2.

[Richard]

Hi HorHey9000,

Thanks for posting.

The internal flash on the EOS Rebel SL2 cannot be used as a master flash for  Canon's Speedlite External flash units..

[ebiggs1]

Hold the reins there Tonto.  There may be a work around.

See if an optical slave can be triggered by the SL2 built-in flask.  They are fairly cheap and easy to use.

[kvbarkley]

Just make sure to get one that ignores the ETTL-2 preflash. IIRC, the SL2 has *only* ETTL-2, no manual without the preflash, which also means you need to go through hoops to prevent the SL2 flash from affecting the shot.

[HorHey9000]

Yup. I gotta get an st-e3-rt.