Shooting great photos is hard. Shooting great photos
with flash? Sometimes it can be even more difficult. Not only do you have to
find the right angle to bounce your flash with, but you have to remember to
maintain that with different framing throughout your photo shoot. Or at least
that was the case before Canon released their stunning new 470EX-AI.
A world’s first, this flash unit from the famed
camera company is designed to intuit the best flash angle for capturing evenly
lit, natural looking flash photos. Once connected to your camera, it fires off
two flashes – one straight forward, and one straight upwards – and then works
with your camera to determine the best angle. Once the flash finds the right
setting, it’ll remember it as you move in or out, or change the framing. More
advanced photographers can set their own angle and get the flash unit to stick
to the same angle, too.
