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eos m6 mkii - no wireless flash control

Started Oct 8, 2019 | Discussions thread
Renard DellaFave
Renard DellaFave Contributing Member • Posts: 806
Re: eos m6 mkii - no wireless flash control

Looked in the user manual. It does have both send/master and receive/slave functions. And yes, the M6ii should be able to use it as an on-camera sender.

Just got it and it does work as a sender to the 270EX II. Nice.  270 Used & 100 as Refurb, the pair was <$200 for an official Canon 2 flash setup.

The EL-100 doesn't work as a receiver for the IR shutter release (RC-6 like) button on the 270EX II. I wasn't counting on that, but it would have been a nice extra, since it has the requisite hardware (an IR sensor that the M6ii lacks).  Still limited to bluetooth, wired, or Canon Connect app.

On the 270EX II, you just slide the on/slave/off switch to slave. You cannot set the channel or group. It's always in channels 1-4, and Group A, according to the user manual, page 17-18.

What I'm not clear on is if there's a way to set the ratio between the sender and a single slave (or individual manual power). You can set a ratio between A:B. The 270 is "A". I presume the 100 as sender is also "A", so I'm guessing not.

All that's in the manual is "When sender flash firing is set to [Enable], the flash units in group A fire".  So I guess you'd need a receiver capable of being "B", then maybe the A:B ratio would work as SENDER:RECEIVER ratio.

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