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 enlarge | Brand: Canon
Category: Photography
List Price: $350.00
Buy New: $198.95
You Save: $151.05 (43%)
New (31) Used (1) from $194.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  22 reviews
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.5
Dimensions (in): 5 x 3.4 x 2.6
MPN: ST-E2
Model: ST-E2
UPC: 689076630719
EAN: 0689076630719
ASIN: B00004WCFY
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 BATTERY NOT INCLUDED May 15, 2008
2 out of 10 found this review helpful
My STE-2 Speedlite Transmitter arrived from Amazon yesterday. I was surprised there wasn't a battery in the box. Especially considering that Amazon doesn't try to sell a battery with the transmitter anywhere on the page. And also considering that you have to click on the "More Technical Details" portion of Amazon's page advertising the transmitter to learn that the battery is not included.
So this intended to be more a politely critical review of Amazon's website with respect to this item than the item itself. Because I can't test the item because I didn't know that I was supposed to buy a battery because the information wasn't efficiently presented to me, the customer.
I chose "five stars" for my rating because I'm sure that once I get to actually use the product, I will love it, because I'm sure it's terrific, because it's made by Canon.
 When it works, it works great - It'll do. April 2, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
It's not a Pocket Wizard, but for what it's intended for it'll do fine. The more I shoot, the more I shoot full manual - Radio Poppers and PW's are the way to go there.
Sometimes though, when we have people over, I will set up 2 580EX's pointed at the ceiling and use the ST-E2 to capture group shots. Works great - never ever fails to trigger the flashes. For portraits indoors I have been known to hide a flash behind a chair, set to manual at 1/64 as a hair light, and a main light camera right or left. The flash hidden behind the chair fires too, with the IR signal bouncing off walls and such.
For fast, ad-hoc throwdowns where I don't have time to set the shot up perfectly, I'll use this thing with ETTL and let the camera meter the shots. This is what I imagine this thing will be best for: clackering off quick shots without thought, when time is tight, let the camera's meter do the work.
So while this device is perfectly fine indoors...it's outdoors that it starts to cool off - better at night, oddly, but still not great unless the flash units are pretty close to the emitter. I knew that going in, though, so I'll limit my review to indoor stuff.
4 instead of 5 stars? That damn battery. This thing is showing it's age, using a 2CR5 battery. They're expensive and sometimes hard to find. As for battery life...we'll see.
Meanwhile the Radio Popper people state this device is use ALONGSIDE their remotes...I don't know how, but I'm going to find out...
Convenient alternative to RF (with caveats) February 15, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I can't complain about this unit. It costs far less than an RF solution like the PocketWizard, preserves E-TTL flash metering, and adds as little gear to my camera bag as possible, at least compared to lugging, charging, and connecting RF transceivers.
Of course it doesn't have the range of RF, requires line of sight, and doesn't perform as reliably outdoors, so ultimately it comes down to what your needs are.
I shoot mostly indoors and find the ST-E2 exceedingly reliable and convenient. If I needed an RF solution I wouldn't be writing this review. So for what it does, this is an ideal little unit.
Great item January 26, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I am quite pleased with Canon STE2 transmitter, it works with the speedlites series and also I've tried it with Photoflex and Visatec flashes and it did a great job.
Introduced in 1998 and is still a current product in the lineup January 6, 2008
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
This is an unchanged 10 year old antique. The ST-E2 ONLY controls groups A and B slaves. So, another wireless method for the group C slave(s) to fire would be to have them attached to slave hot shoe(s) and hope that no one else uses flash near the slave(s). A better solution is to set another group A or B Speedlite on manual and dial in the required output.
Flash exposure compensation (FEC) can be set on a hot shoe mounted 580 series Speedlite used as a slave trigger to control FEC to compatible Speedlite slave groups. The ST-E2 CANNOT perform this task. Instead, you can walk over to each slave and set the FEC to achieve the same effect.
Direct line of sight indoors is USUALLY not required. The building's interior hard surfaces help in bouncing the wireless signal to the slave(s).
The ST-ET comes with a black coloured pouch having the same rugged material as the 580 series pouches.
To conclude, one star was removed for the:
[1] odd size battery which is not carried in all stores
[2] inability to control group C slave(s)
[3] lack of control over FEC (not a problem because the unit has rear buttons to adust the flash ratio in 1/2 stop increments for groups A and B slaves), manual flash (each slave must be individually set) and stroboscopic flash (each slave must be individually set)
The Canon ST-E2 Speedlite Transmitter is not as sophisticated as the Nikon SU-800 Wireless Speedlight Commander. The ST-E2 which doesn't come cheap is half the price and size of the more versatile 580 series Speedlite used as slave triggers.
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