Canon TTL Flash Sync Cord OC-E3

Hello,

Have someone experiance with connecting multiple Canon OC-E3 cords?
I would like to know how many you can connect and still have full E-TTL...

Thank you.

Greetings, Edwin Verweij

eddepet said:

Have someone experiance with connecting multiple Canon OC-E3 cords?
I would like to know how many you can connect and still have full E-TTL...

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How were you thinking of connecting multiple cords to one camera?

You can only have one master flash. The master flash can be used to trigger any other slave flashes, with full ETTL.

Brian A

Yes you can connect two or more. I have two which I connect together often.

Carl

eddepet said:

Hello,

Have someone experiance with connecting multiple Canon OC-E3 cords?
I would like to know how many you can connect and still have full E-TTL...

Thank you.

Greetings, Edwin Verweij

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Is this right?

Cord one connected to camera. Then cord two connected to shoe where normally the flash would go.

Repeat several times.

Finally put one flash in hot shoe of last cord in the string.

Half a dozen should work with no problem, but it'll cost a lot.

Paramountcords.com and some company with Zebra inthe name will sell you longer cords.

Combining several genuine Canon cords also means there will be weird springiness tothe string, so you'll need to anchor camera and flash.

BAK

Edwin:

Did you think about asking the source. Call Canon Tech Support

1 800 OK CANON

Thanks all for the reply's you give,

Maybe I was not completly clear in my question.
My question should be "how many Canon OC-E3 cords you can connect in one line".

I already have 1 cord and if I connect it to my camera and flash I've a distance between them of max 1 meter.

I would like to make a setup with camera and flash. Camera on a tripot, table in front of camera. Softbox with flash on the other side of the table. The table is arround 80cm square.

If I use remote trigger I lose the E-TTL function and should put the flash in manual. If I use the cable I keep the E-TTL function.

So I was thinking perhaps with another cable I've enought distance to make the setup as descripe above working.

I'm still looking for a good solution to start making photos of food plates.

Greetings, Edwin Verweij

I think the problem is that very few of us have mutiple off shoe cords to hook together. At $50-$70 each it would be the most expensive way to get more distance between the flash and the camera in order to maintain ETTL. Carl S already said that he has done this with two cords before but I doubt many people have 3 or 4 offshoe cords laying around.

A much cheaper way would be to buy one and cut the cord in two and then splice some CAT 5 cord for whatever distance you want. I have heard of people going up to 30 feet with no problems (they did say that it worked better with brand new batteries in their flash though). This would also eliminate the need to anchor your flash down from using such a long coiled cord.

Or you could buy one that is already done for your that is 24 feet in length from here: http://flashzebra.com/products/0125/

Still much cheaper than buying mutiple off shoe cords and chaining them together.

John

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Is there a particular reason you want to use the Canon cable ? I have an OC-2 (pretty much identical) and found it very inconvienient when I wanted to put the flash on a light stand. The solution was to buy a 3 metre straight off-camera cable made by Lastolite. No complaints and it was about half the price of the Canon cable.

Here's a link to the product on Amazon (UK)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B002L6G9CO

I've also seen similar cables on eBay

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And it works like a charm. Yeah, my "tape" job leaves a lot to be desired...But now that I know I can solder the wires in the correct order, and it still works , I plan on cutting it and using heat-shrink tubing for a nicer appearance.

30 feet of Cat 6 cable from the local hardware store, for something like....$9 ???

Damn, you can't beat it....IMHO.



Regards, Mike

balloonchasers said:

A much cheaper way would be to buy one and cut the cord in two and then splice some CAT 5 cord for whatever distance you want. I have heard of people going up to 30 feet with no problems (they did say that it worked better with brand new batteries in their flash though). This would also eliminate the need to anchor your flash down from using such a long coiled cord.

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John

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Suggest you just buy one of the much longer versions from flashzebra.com

Much cheaper and well assembled.

Thanks for all the answers.

I think it is save to add two cable together no mather what the brand of the cable is. Will also look at zebra for a longer cable and of the will ship it to the Netherlands.

Greetings, Edwin Verweij