The Canon S500 (Digital Elph)

[The Chairman]

Cabo,

your shots with this camera are what sold me on it! Thanks for such good work!

 

[Dee]

Pete...the S500 was one I was thinking of earlier....just didn't realize it was the Elf!

Cabo....excellent photos! Doesn't look like you're hindered by lack of some controls.

 

[The Chairman]

First Pics... "Rat Cat"

 

[Dee]

Rat Cat has some evil eyes! Cool photos!

 

[zilch]

Hi,

The housing for this model is the WP-DC800...great housing...also easy to take care of. I found the cheapest price for the housing to be at walmart.com for about 180.00. Hope you enjoy the camera!

Hi

Can i assume this is what we call the IXUS500 in europe, just purchased this package with the WP DC800 housing, and was looking for advise on the use of a strobe with it..hoping to borrow one for my hols next month rather than purchase at this time..wondered about the setup

Cheers

Jim

 

[The Chairman]

My external strobe causes EVERYTHING to be dark.

 

[H2Andy]

are you sure that's a strobe and not a put-outer?

 

[alcina]

My external strobe causes EVERYTHING to be dark.

Hmmm, that doesn't sound right :11:

Have you run a check-list?
-external strobe firing
-internal strobe firing to trigger external
-external pointing at your subject and not off into space (very common problem)
...

 

[Cabo]

NetDoc..

Which strobe did you get. You probably already know but the S500 uses a pre-flash so the strobe has to be set to ignore the first flash and fire on the second. This caused me some annoyance when I tested it out in the living room after first getting the package.

 

[The Chairman]

The strobe is the one for my old reef camera... and I doubt it will work with this. What strobe should I be looking for?