A few Q if I may

[onform]

As some of you may know I brought a canon eos5 the other day and I have a few Questions for you very knowledgeable chaps.

1. Can I use a modern canon flash, 430,580 exII's on the film body? I remember reading somewhere about voltages??

2. Can I use pocket wizards on the hotshoe or will it kill them?

 

[TheBigYin]

modern flashes etc are fine with the EOS-5 - though you'll probably have to use 'em in manual mode iirc (it's a while since my EOS-5 died... but i think that the EZ range of flashes were the dedicated jobs for the EOS-5) Now the EOS-3 body would actually work pretty much exactly the same as your 5D - not to mention handling pretty much the same apart from focusing faster :shrug:

The Flashes issue, is really older flashes killing the modern cameras, rather than the other way around. Pocket wizards/Poverty wizards are fine on the EOS-5/3 or even stuff like the old A-1 - indeed I've used a poverty wizard with a p/c cord and my Perkeo II (a 1950's folding 120 camera). I think that there MAY be some camera specific problems but certainly the Canon 35mm cameras will be cool

 

[onform]

Cool, cheers Mark. I'm even more excited now..

Also do you have any idea why medium format film is cheaper than the 35mm equivalent at 7day shop?

 

[freecom2]

You get bigger negatives but far less pictures per roll - I shoot 6x6 which gives 12 pictures per medium format roll and that roll is quite a bit shorter than a 36exp 35mm roll when hung together after processing.

 

[Alastair]

The EZ flashes are still pretty easy to get hold of secondhand, pretty solid and dependable.