Pop Up Flash
I would appreciate if anyone can briefly tell me why there is not an internal pop up flash on 5Dll. This morning I was taking a macro shot and thought I would add a wee bit of extra light and to my surprise found there was no pop up flash.
Cheers
Bob
Cheers
Bob
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I believe the assumption is that if you purchase one of the Canon FF bodies you will understand just how poor the light from a pop up flash can be. Except for the situation of fill light, I agree with their assumption and their decision not to include a pop up flash on those models.
A pop up flash also creates a possible route for water to enter the camera. While the 5D MKII is not a true "weather sealed" body, it does provide some watershed and a pop up flash would detract from that.
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Many of Nikon or Sony's FF solutions have not had pop-up flashes either. I suspect also the target demographic for those cameras were not looking for pop-ups, as they tend to have much more sophisticated lighting available.
Not sure about your last point. My weather sealed Pentax K-5 certainly has a popup flash. Although I primarily use it to wirelessly trigger my other flash, I do occassionally use it to fill light when I'm in walk-around mode.
Thanks for that Ziggy. I do have a 580EX ll flash but I would agree with Divamum the pop up flash did come in handy at times and certainly would have done so this morning when using 100L macro in the conservatory in a house fly as the light was not bright.
Thanks again
Bob
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Thanks for your replies everyone.
Cheers
Bob