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(More customer reviews)The Canon Off Camera Shoe Cord 2 is indispensable for those who use a speedlight bracket for portrait photography. Raising the speedlight off the camera body helps eliminate hotspots, redeye and lens hood shadow in flash photography.
Canon needs to make the cord much, much longer (don't know what electrical resistance problems this will cause) to utilize directly (as a master) with umbrella lights. I must use the umbrellas as slave units - because of the short cord length.
One look at the set screws in the base reminded me of a problem pair of eyeglasses where the set screws backed out if you just looked at them wrong. A very careful application of CLEAR nail polish over each screw has prevented problems others have had (so far) with the screws backing out. This etches the plastic - apply sparingly and carefully.
I'm CONSTANTLY checking, tightening, checking, remounting this cord and speedlight interface to insure reliable function of my 420EX and 580EX speedlights - mounted on a flashbracket with an adjustable arm. Flipping the arm back and forth for landscape and portrait picture formats - puts stress on the hotshoe and speedlight sides of the cord. After some failures - these compulsive actions become "normal" procedure!
If someone has a better cord - I'll use it. In the meanwhile - if you use a flashbracket - you need this cord.
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The Canon Off Camera Shoe Cord 2 was designed to assist photographers inmore efficiently lighting their subjects. By allowing the flash to be moved offthe camera, while retaining all flash functions, the shoe cord allows for betterflash positioning, which translates into more controllable illumination. Theshoe cord is compatible with all Canon EOS models, except for the EOS 630 andRT.
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