Urgent bounce flash question 760D owners

The 70D has a major underexposure problem with diffused or bounced flash with every Canon lens I own. Many owners of the 70D have experienced this same problem.

I also recently purchased the Nikon D5500, which is an exceptional camera, after deciding that I don't want to give Canon any more of my money in the future after the 70D flash debacle was completely ignored by them. I'm pretty much done with Canon at this point.

Here is a couple quotes in bold from me from another thread I responded to regarding the 70D:

"My 70D underexposes bounce flash so badly(whether bouncing off the ceiling or using a Vello bounce diffuser) that I was going to sell it because I take a lot of indoor bounce flash photos of our new grandchild and want a camera that works like every other camera I've ever used in that regard. It really is that bad imo. I'm talking about when I use it indoors with low light. Whether it will function properly with a diffuser while using flash as a fill flash outside I don't know.

Why Canon has chosen to ignore this glaring issue and not issue firmware is beyond my understanding.

Because I have so much Canon gear, and I don't feel like screwing with it and can't afford to even if I wanted to, I chose to keep the 70D. If I had the money, I would have jumped the Canon ship for this and went to Nikon or Sony a long time ago.

Instead, The way I fixed the 70D's bounce flash problem is I coughed up another $400 and bought the Canon SL1. Problem fixed. The SL1 takes outstanding bounce flash photos(just like all the other Canon Camera's I've ever used except the 70D), and every other kind of photo too. This is such an awesome small and light DSLR camera that takes such nice photos.

The T3i I had I gave to my daughter when I bought the 70D. I would have just kept it if I had only known. It has no problem with bounce flash either and takes beautiful photos, flash or not.

My flash is the 430ex ii and most of my photos that I'm referring to are taken with the 70D while standing or sitting in my house somewhere but almost always within 10 feet or so of the subject. This is the same distance I'm using with my new SL1, and used with my T3i, with the same lenses with the same subject(my granddaughter). The exposures for the SL1 and T3i are identical to each other and are excellent while the pics taken with the 70D are poor at best.

As a side note, If I flash exposure lock on the subject before snapping the bounce flash picture with the 70D, all the photos are exposed perfectly.

If I don't FEL before snapping the photo, they are all very underexposed. Adjusting the exposure compensation does absolutely nothing to help correct the underexposure either. On the other hand, with my new SL1 or my old T3i, I never have to FEL when using bounce to get proper exposure.

The 70D does have an excellent video feature which I use a lot and takes excellent regular photos as well.

It's sort of comical in that I had never before purchased a camera as expensive as the 70D. This was a big purchase for me in terms of cost and was my "holy grail" camera body purchase. It never in a million years occurred to me that a camera would miss the mark so badly with such a basic function as diffused flash photography. When I saw the results this camera was producing, I knew I was doing something wrong. But what, I asked myself. All the other cameras of theirs that I owned never did this. Then, when I started reading other people's complaints about the same thing, I knew it wasn't me or my equipment.

Then to have Canon ignore it as if it isn't there really changed my whole attitude toward this company.

I've had many good years of taking photos with Canon products. A lot of the non L lenses they currently make are spectacular imo and the cameras they make really do take great photos. For this reason, I guess I'm not going to hold this one issue against them to the point of leaving them, not that I could afford to. With that said, I agree with your decision that you should stay away from the 70D if you do a lot of indoor bounce/diffuse flash photography. Like I said, if only I knew then what I know now I would not have bought this camera for half the price I paid for it."