Major Accessories (Optional)
Ni-MH Pack NP-E3
Dedicated, high-capacity power pack. Rated voltage of 12 V. It can be recharged up to 500 times. When fully charged, it enables the camera to take up to about 1200 shots at normal temperature.
Ni-MH Charger NC-E2
Quick charger dedicated to the Ni-MH Pack NP-E3. Excess charging prevented. It takes about 120 minutes to recharge one pack. Two packs can be attached to it at one time. The discharge function takes about 8.5 hours to cancel the pack’s memory effect. It runs on 100 - 240 VAC.
Shoe-mount Speedlites
Flash photography with an EX-series Speedlite is as easy as normal auto exposure shooting without flash. All EX- series Speedlites enable E-TTL II autoflash, high-speed sync (FP flash), and FE lock. With the 550EX, an easy-to- use, wireless E-TTL II autoflash system is possible with multiple Speedlites.
Macro Ring Lites
The EX-series Macro Lites are ideal for close-up flash photography.
You can fire only one or both flash tubes and control the flash ratio to easily obtain sophisticated lighting effects with E-TTL II autoflash. Also, high-speed sync (FP flash), FE lock, and a multi-Speedlite, wireless system (with 550EX or 420EX as a slave) are possible to achieve various macro flash effects.