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Urgent bounce flash question 760D owners

Started Jul 12, 2015 | Discussions thread
snofox Regular Member • Posts: 334
Re: Urgent bounce flash question 760D owners

It sounds like you are trying to use ETTL with a bounced flash. I am not an expert, but from what I have read, ETTLII only works if the flash head is facing directly forward. Once you tilt it up, there is no reliable measure of the distance from the flash to the subject and faulty exposure results. And if you modify the flash too, you lose even more light. Am I right?

Apparently the 70D has this bounce flash "problem" that you describe, or some copies of it do. But I have never been able to understand why it should work with ETTL.

EDIT: Of course, the fact that lots of shooters claim that they can bounce the flash with ETTL successfully every time with some cameras seems to confound the issue, and it sure as hell confuses me!

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