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Using an Externally Mounted Flash (Optional) 123
Using an Externally Mounted
Flash (Optional)
You can make your flash photography even clearer and more natural appearing
with the use of a separately sold externally mounted flash. The camera’s auto
exposure function will operate with a Canon Speedlite 220EX, 380EX, 420EX,
550EX or a Macro Ring Lite MR-14EX (p. 125). Other flashes may fire at full
intensity or not fire at all. Please check the manual for your flash.
• Certain functions noted in the manuals for the Canon Speedlite 220EX, 380EX,
420EX, 550EX and Macro Ring Lite MR-14EX cannot be performed when
mounted on this camera. Please read this guide before using one of these flashes
on the camera.
1
Attach the flash to the camera’s hot
shoe.
2
Turn the external flash on and turn the
camera’s main dial to .
3
Turn the mode dial to a mode other
than or .
Speedlite 220EX, 380EX, 420EX, 550EX or
Macro Ring Lite MR-14EX
• The flash will automatically adjust its output
in the
, , , , , , , and
modes. The maximum flash synchro shutter
speed is 1/250 second.
• The maximum flash synchro shutter speed in
the
mode is 1/250 second. Set the aperture
to an appropriate value according to the flash’s
guide number and the distance to the subject.
Check the camera’s ISO sensitivity setting since
the flash’s guide number will change with the
ISO value. In
mode, the output of an
externally mounted flash can be adjusted with
the flash exposure compensation bar (p. 74).
When a Speedlite 550EX or Macro Ring Lite
MR-14EX is mounted on the camera, you can
adjust the flash output from either the flash or
the camera. To set it from the flash, you are
Speedlite 420EX Mounted
on the Hot Shoe