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Title: This flash is useless to me...
Review: Contrary to the common statement that this flash will work with any camera, it's not true. I have the Canon Digital Rebel. The Rebel uses "flash assist" when focusing in dark settings, where it strobes the flash to light the subject to aid in exposure metering. This cannot be turned off.Unfortunately, when the camera flash strobes to help focus, it triggers the DF200 slave flash, and when the shutter snaps a half-second later, the Vivitar DF200 is not recharged and cannot flash. The picture is under-exposed, because the DF200 lit the subject beyond what the Rebel was expecting during it's focusing phase, and then the DF200 doesn't light the subject at all during the actual image acquisition.I'm returning the flash. It looks like a nice package for the money, but if it doesn't work, it's useless.
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