Using an Externally Mounted Flash (Optional)

You can make your flash photography even clearer and more natural appearing with the use of a separately sold externally mounted flash. The camera’s auto exposure function will operate with a Canon Speedlite 220EX, 380EX, 420EX, 550EX or a Macro Ring Lite MR-14EX (p. 125). Other flashes may fire at full intensity or not fire at all. Please check the manual for your flash.

•Certain functions noted in the manuals for the Canon Speedlite 220EX, 380EX, 420EX, 550EX and Macro Ring Lite MR-14EX cannot be performed when mounted on this camera. Please read this guide before using one of these flashes on the camera.

Speedlite 420EX Mounted on the Hot Shoe

1Attachshoe. the flash to the camera’s hot

2Turn the external flash on and turn the camera’s main dial to .

3Turn the mode dial to a mode other

than or .

Speedlite 220EX, 380EX, 420EX, 550EX or Macro Ring Lite MR-14EX

•The flash will automatically adjust its output

in the , , , , , , , and modes. The maximum flash synchro shutter speed is 1/250 second.

•The maximum flash synchro shutter speed in the mode is 1/250 second. Set the aperture to an appropriate value according to the flash’s guide number and the distance to the subject. Check the camera’s ISO sensitivity setting since the flash’s guide number will change with the ISO value. In mode, the output of an externally mounted flash can be adjusted with the flash exposure compensation bar (p. 74). When a Speedlite 550EX or Macro Ring Lite MR-14EX is mounted on the camera, you can adjust the flash output from either the flash or the camera. To set it from the flash, you are

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