Optical Transmission Wireless Settings

Set the sender and receiver for optical transmission wireless flash shooting with E-TTL II / E-TTL autoflash as follows.

Setting as Sender

  1. Select Wireless / linked shooting setting with the joystick.

  2. Set to Optical transmission wirelessSENDER.

    • Press the joystick vertically or horizontally or turn Select dial to select Optical transmission wirelessSENDER, then push the joystick straight in.

  3. Select the firing method.

    • Push the joystick straight in.
    • Press the joystick vertically or horizontally or turn Select dial to select item (1), then push the joystick straight in.
    • Push the joystick to the left or right, turn Select dial to select from ALL A:B A:B C, then push the joystick vertically (, ).

Setting as Receiver

  1. Set to Optical transmission wirelessRECEIVER.

    • Configure this setting on Speedlites to use as receivers.
    • Select Optical transmission wirelessRECEIVER just as you set up the sender.

Caution

  • To perform normal flash photography, select WIRELESS OFF to clear the sender settings.

Setting the Transmission Channel

Follow the procedure below to set the communication channel of the sender unit. The channel set should be the same for the sender unit and receiver unit. For details on the receiver operation procedure, refer to the Instruction Manual of the Speedlite equipped with the optical transmission wireless receiver function.

  1. Push the joystick straight in.

  2. Select the item shown in (1).

    • Press the joystick vertically or horizontally or turn Select dial to select the channel item, then push the joystick straight in.

  3. Set a transmission channel.

    • Push the joystick up / down / left / right or turn Select dial to select from Ch. 1 to 4, then push the joystick vertically.

Caution

  • Receivers do not fire unless the sender and receiver channels match. Set both to the same number.

Sender Flash Firing On / Off

You can set whether the sender fires along with the receivers it controls wirelessly. When sender flash firing is enabled, the sender fires as firing group A.

  1. Push the joystick straight in.

  2. Select the item shown in (1).

    • Press the joystick vertically or horizontally or turn Select dial to select the item, then push the joystick straight in.

  3. Set sender flash firing.

    • Press the joystick horizontally or turn Select dial to enable or disable sender flash firing, then push the joystick straight in.
      • Sender flash firing ON: Sender flash firing ON
      • Sender flash firing OFF: Sender flash firing OFF

Caution

  • Even when sender flash firing is set to OFF, the flash firing for controlling the receiver unit (optical transmission) is performed. Therefore, depending on the shooting conditions, the flash fired for controlling the receiver unit may be captured in the picture.

Memory Function

You can save the wireless settings to the sender unit and receiver unit and recall the settings later. Operate each sender or receiver unit individually to save or recall its settings.

  1. Press the SUB MENU button.

  2. Select MEMORY.

    • Press the joystick vertically or horizontally or turn Select dial to select MEMORY, then push the joystick straight in.

  3. Save or load the settings.

    Save

    • Press the joystick horizontally or turn Select dial to select SAVE, then push the joystick straight in.
    • Press the joystick horizontally or turn Select dial to select OK, then push the joystick straight in.
    • The settings are saved (stored in the memory).

    Load

    • Press the joystick horizontally or turn Select dial to select LOAD, then push the joystick straight in.
    • Press the joystick horizontally or turn Select dial to select OK, then push the joystick straight in.
    • The settings that were saved are set.