I heard of some people daring to use Canon flashes on their Fuji X series cameras.
When I contacted Canon to ask what the trigger voltage of their flashes are they would not disclose this information.
Fuji states that anything under 300 volts will not hurt the camera. But can the camera hurt the flash? I must know because I'll be using a borrowed Fuji but have 5 different Canon EX flashes that I can use......if safe to do so.
Is it safe to use the Canon flashes on a Fuji X-E2 body?
yes, assuming you are referring to modern E-TTL flashes.
All modern electronic speedlights are low-voltage (as in 12V or less for flash sync). It's only old flashes from the pre-TTL era where you have high sync voltages, and holdovers of those designs like the Vivitar 283 and 285 where early production examples were somewhat higher voltage (and even then, all production of those from the last 30 years are safely below 12V).
If you use a Canon flash on a Fuji, the e-ttl will not work, the flash has to be used in manual mode. It works fine, I almost never use ttl anyways for flash, always manual so it is not an issue.
leo11877 wrote:
Does the TTL function work across brands?
No, with minor exceptions (Metz flashes with separate TTL modules, nikon flashes on Fuji DSLR's, Pentax flashes on Samsung DSLR's, and Panasonic m43 flashes are in fact clones of older Oly flash models without the wireless function and thus work on Oly bodies and vice versa).
apsphoto wrote:
If you use a Canon flash on a Fuji, the e-ttl will not work, the flash has to be used in manual mode. It works fine, I almost never use ttl anyways for flash, always manual so it is not an issue.
Alan
Auto mode will also work on the 580EX II (I'm not sure if the new 600EX has Auto, but I suspect it does). That's a non-TTL mode though but useful as all heck.
dasrocket wrote:
The vivitar 283 is safe in modern cameras
This isn't true with all modern cameras. According to Canon, their cameras can handle up to 250v at the PC terminal only, the hotshoe is still limited to 6v. Have you ever tested the voltage on your Vivitar? I've owned many 283s, two (made in Japan) measured over 265v, enough to fry some camera's flash circuits. The ones that were made in China had a much safer voltage of less than 12v.
As far as Canon flashes on the Fuji, all the ones that I have measured were well below 6v and would be safe on the X-E2.
mawz wrote:
Auto mode will also work on the 580EX II (I'm not sure if the new 600EX has Auto, but I suspect it does). That's a non-TTL mode though but useful as all heck.
Yes 600ex has Ext. M mode that I use on my non-Canon cameras all the time.
