Xsi Slr Camera
Will all Canon flashes work with any canon slr camera?
I have a Canon XSI SLR. I was wanting to know if all of Canon's flashes will work with all Canon cameras. I am looking to buy a flash and I only have about $350-$400 to spend on it. I'm also wanting to get a tilt, grip bracket. I kind of have the kind of bracket that I want in mind. I just wasn't sure about the flash. I know other brands make products that work with Canon. Is it better to stick with Canon since it is a Canon camera? I'm so confused. Any info would be helpful, because I've been reading a lot of stuff online and it's not making any since to me. Thanks!
Any Canon gun with the EX suffix will work safely with your camera.
The best guns for digital SLRs are the 430 EX or 430 EX II or 580 or 580 EX II, as these account for sensor size and transmit white balance info.
All of these guns have bounce, swivel & tllt heads, all have auto zoom (where the angle of flash coverage changes with the effective focal length of the lens) and all have useful features which make it worth spending the extra on the genuine canon EX gun:
Full E-TTL & E-TTL II preflash metering (you can also use flash exposure lock)
High speed synch (you can fire the flash even with speeds as high as 1/8000th)
First or second curtain synch (for moving subjects in low light)
All focus points active during AF assist
Most thrid party guns won't offer any of these very very useful features, none will offer all. They make flash photography a pleasure rather than a pain.
The more expensive 580 guns have more power & faster recycling and can be used as a master in a slave set up, the 430s are still pretty powerful but can only be slaves.
The new gun the 270EX looks like a good budget option but offers only tilt and is a lot lower in power than even the 430EX (which makes the most of its power with the zoom)
I'd go for a 430 EX or 430 EX 2 and a cheap camcorder L bracket with hotshoes ($20) use a E-TTL off-shoe cable to connect camera to flash, and this gives you a dedicated versatile set up.
If money really is tight then used guns like the 380 EX (tilt only) 420 EX and 550EX will all do a job for you, but in the digital age you really want a flash that has been designed with digital in mind, the cropped sensor issue in particular, which applies to your XSi.
Good luck.
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