Canon ST-E2 Speedlite Transmitter for Canon 580EX II, 430EX, 430EX II Speedlites
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Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of Canon ST-E2 Speedlite Transmitter for Canon 580EX II, 430EX, 430EX II Speedlites
Customer Review: great product
Summary: 5 Stars
this thing works great! exactly as advertised. very helpful for getting non-direct lighting on a subject, eliminating 'red eye'. totally rocksCustomer Review: Good Canon Product but radio controlled is better
Summary: 5 Stars
This works just as described. As long as flash i-red beams see eachother it works fine... But radio controlled flash is much betterCustomer Review: Speedlite Transmitter
Summary: 5 Stars
Met my expectation and worked well with Canon speedlites 580ex & 420ex in slave mode in a photo shoot setting.
Customer Review: I love it
Summary: 5 Stars
I have two 580ex i use in combination with it and it all work like having my portable studio lighting system.Customer Review: Introduced in 1998 and is still a current product in the lineup
Summary: 4 Stars
This is an unchanged 10 year old antique. The ST-E2 ONLY controls groups A and B slaves. So, another wireless method for the group C slave(s) to fire would be to have them attached to slave hot shoe(s) and hope that no one else uses flash near the slave(s). A better solution is to set another group A or B Speedlite on manual and dial in the required output.
Flash exposure compensation (FEC) can be set on a hot shoe mounted 580 series Speedlite used as a slave trigger to control FEC to compatible Speedlite slave groups. The ST-E2 CANNOT perform this task. Instead, you can walk over to each slave and set the FEC to achieve the same effect.
Direct line of sight indoors is USUALLY not required. The building's interior hard surfaces help in bouncing the wireless signal to the slave(s).
The ST-ET comes with a black coloured pouch having the same rugged material as the 580 series pouches.
To conclude, one star was removed for the:
[1] odd size battery which is not carried in all stores
[2] inability to control group C slave(s)
[3] lack of control over FEC (not a problem because the unit has rear buttons to adust the flash ratio in 1/2 stop increments for groups A and B slaves), manual flash (each slave must be individually set) and stroboscopic flash (each slave must be individually set)
The Canon ST-E2 Speedlite Transmitter is not as sophisticated as the Nikon SU-800 Wireless Speedlight Commander. The ST-E2 which doesn't come cheap is half the price and size of the more versatile 580 series Speedlite used as slave triggers.