E-TTL II
E-TTL II is much like E-TTL except that the focus distance returned by the lens may, in some circumstances, be used in determining flash exposure.
E-TTL
E-TTL (Evaluative-Through The Lens) flash metering. A Canon EOS flash exposure system that uses a brief pre-flash before the main flash in order to obtain a more correct exposure.
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E-TTL
(Evaluative-Through The Lens) An exposure system that uses a brief pre-flash before the main flash to calculate the exposure index (used by Canon®).
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E-TTL / E-TTL II - Canon's flash exposure system used on their digital SLRs. To quote Canon: "The ?smarter? E-TTL II system captures the subject as a ?plane?
E-TTL - Canon's Evaluative-TTL exposure system that uses a brief pre-flash before the main flash to calculate the exposure index.
E-TTL
Short for Evaluative Through-the-Lens Mode. By Canon developed method for flash exposure measurement and -control.
E-TTL and E-TTL II flash metering patterns:
The camera uses its evaluative metering system to meter the flash output, based upon the preflash.
E-TTL (Evalulative-Through-The-Lens Metering) is a flash metering systems designed by Canon, in which the flash unit fires a pre-flash burst prior to the main flash firing in order to get a more accurate metering reading for a more correct exposure.
- E-TTL auto flash with EX-series Speedlites
- Flash exposure compensation only on flash control panel
(No PC Sync terminal)
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Canon Wireless E-TTL Multi Kit with Two 580EX II Flashes and Transmitter ST-E2, USA Warranty
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For Canon flashes, E-TTL stands for "evaluative through the lens" metering. When you set your flash to ETTL mode, the flash actually emits light prior to the actual flash firing that is used for registering the exposure.
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Evaluative, through-the-lens flash metering.
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Turn your flash on and set it to E-TTL (or whatever the equivalent is on non-Canon cameras)
You may need to tweak your aperture setting (or ISO, if shooting digital) if the required shutter speed is faster than your flash sync speed.
The company has already cracked the Olympus digital TTL code, and is exploring D-TTL (Nikon) and E-TTL (Canon). Someday soon it may be as easy to shoot Ikelite submersible strobes in D-TTL as it was back in the analog days.
5/23/2001, I'm reading a review of Minolta's new DiMAGE 7 digicam and it mentions "ADI (Advanced Distance Integration) flash metering".) (Canon has followed suit. With the release of the EOS-1D Mark II in 2004, Canon has introduced E-TTL II which ...
E-TTL -
EVF - Electronic View Finder: LCD-preview screen that is just visible through an ocular, used in digital bridge cameras
everset shutter - A shutter that is tripped by the sole energy of the finger pressing the release.
 See also: Flash, TTL, Camera, Image, Photograph
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