Owner`s manual

B.2. FLASH TEST – ADI/PRE-FLASH/BOUNCE/WIRELESS 42

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To summarize what I got from this experiment:

When placing wireless ﬂashes around your subject be careful about distances you place your ﬂashes

from the subject and the powers of ﬂashes since you can create different ratios unintentionaly

You can have ratio wireless off-camera ﬂashes even without dedicated wireless ﬂash controller de-

spite what Minolta says in 5400HS ﬂash manual. All you have to do is to set 5400HS to 2:[1] ratio

and ﬁre the ﬂashes using built-in camera ﬂash.

If you have 5400HS on-camera and you have your camera swichted to wireless mode (so that you

have WIRELESS word shown on 5400HS display – but not WIRELESS CONTROL!) ﬂash works

just like ordinary on-camera ﬂash and it is unable to ﬁre any wireless ﬂash. You need to set it to

WIRELESS CONTROL mode by pressing and holding OPT button to do so.

If you have 5400HS on-camera ﬂash set to WIRELESS CONTROL and you need to use it as ﬁll light

(2:1) then you need to switch it to WIRELESS CONTROL 2:[1] mode. The way usual for built-in

ﬂash (holding ﬂash button on camera body while shooting) seems not to work

B.2 Flash Test – ADI/Pre-Flash/Bounce/Wireless

[Author(s): Marat R. Saﬁulin. Reviewed by: Petr Holub.]

There are three tables down there: Flash Tests 24–85 (Tab. B.4), Flash Tests 28–80D (Tab. B.5) and

Flash Tests WL (Tab. B.6).

Pictures in the ﬁrst two tables were scanned with the exposure lock except for the ﬁle “28–80D ADI

5600” which served as a sample, i.e. I scanned it with the AE and then locked exposure for all other

images in order to show exposure differences. Pictures in the third table were scanned with the AE

(on the negative there were almost no differences between them).

Please, do not judge the artistic value of the images— they were made for pure test purpose only.

As long as I had only 4 test pictures for the 28–80/3.5–5.6 D lens (I didn’t make bounce shots

with this lens because I think they would be equal to those made with the 24–85/3.5–4.5) I put two

additional images made with the 24–85 lens instead, but on them the subject is relatively far away

from the camera - focal length was 85 mm, with all other shots, except WL, it was 70 mm. As you

I’ve heard rumors that Canon cameras together with Canon ﬂashes can be programmed in such a way that they are distance

independent. The only way I’m able to come up with how to do this sort of thing is that ﬂashes are ﬁred sequentionaly so camera can

balance them to get equal portion of light from each of them. Nota bene: this note is not to provoke any ﬂamewars or brand-wars but

it’s rather because of my technical curiosity!!!

The other possibility is that on-camera ﬂash is so weak in this case that I haven’t noticed it on the resulting photos. This shoud

be re-measured using slide ﬁlm with small exposure latitude.