Canon S3 IS off camera flash.

Hi all,

I'm considering buying a Canon S3 IS and am very interested in
occasionally using an off camera flash. Can this be done with the S3 IS
through a PC flash (or ???) connector?

My Olympus (C-700 UZ), at least, won't sync with another unit that
incorporates a slave. It appears that it uses a pre-flash of some sort
that triggers the slave unit too early.

Thanks much,

Perk (:>)

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Perk <perkins@waverunner.net> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm considering buying a Canon S3 IS and am very interested in
> occasionally using an off camera flash. Can this be done with the S3 IS
> through a PC flash (or ???) connector?
>
> My Olympus (C-700 UZ), at least, won't sync with another unit that
> incorporates a slave. It appears that it uses a pre-flash of some sort
> that triggers the slave unit too early.
>
> Thanks much,
>
> Perk (:>)

Can't you disable the preflash?

Perk wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm considering buying a Canon S3 IS and am very interested in
> occasionally using an off camera flash. Can this be done with the S3 IS
> through a PC flash (or ???) connector?
>
> My Olympus (C-700 UZ), at least, won't sync with another unit that
> incorporates a slave. It appears that it uses a pre-flash of some sort
> that triggers the slave unit too early.

There is a wein slave device that will skip the pre-trigger and trigger
on the next flash.


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Alan Browne wrote:
> Perk wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm considering buying a Canon S3 IS and am very interested in
>> occasionally using an off camera flash. Can this be done with the S3
>> IS through a PC flash (or ???) connector?
>>
>> My Olympus (C-700 UZ), at least, won't sync with another unit that
>> incorporates a slave. It appears that it uses a pre-flash of some sort
>> that triggers the slave unit too early.
>
> There is a wein slave device that will skip the pre-trigger and trigger
> on the next flash.
>
>
Thanks to both of you, I guess I just feel it's time for a new camera
but would like to be able to use off camera flash conveniently.

Perk (:>)

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"Perk" <perkins@waverunner.net> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
>
> I'm considering buying a Canon S3 IS and am very interested in
> occasionally using an off camera flash. Can this be done with the S3 IS
> through a PC flash (or ???) connector?
>
> My Olympus (C-700 UZ), at least, won't sync with another unit that
> incorporates a slave. It appears that it uses a pre-flash of some sort
> that triggers the slave unit too early.
>
> Thanks much,
>
> Perk (:>)

Canon has a dedicated external flash for the PowerShot cameras. See it here:
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/produc...DC1_Flash.html

You might also download the S3 User Guide (advanced version) and check page
143.

dwight