550ex with PC sync.
Strobist has a lot to answer for. He has great articles and advice on flash, but of course for Nikon flash units. Us poor Canon users don't have a PC sync socket and are left to fend for ourselves with crap hotshoe adaptors. Michael Bass will add a socket for you for $59.95 plus shipping, with quick turnaround, to solve the issue.Intrigued by this, and because I've modified an Off Camera Hotshoe Cable in the past, I decided to research into others mods and perhaps do my own.
The first stop in my Google hope was Photography On The Net, but it turned out to be a 580ex thread, with little references to the 550 I have. One reference took me to Fred Mirandas forums. Again it turned out to be more 580 based, as was this one. There was a final link to Flickr, but by then I'd taken the bottom off the 550ex. There's a lot more screws, but I reckon it's a simple job and I'm off to get the bits tomorrow.
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So Sean - did you have it done yet??
Hi Sean,
Thanks for this post. I hadn't realised that there were any sites that showed you how this was done, so this info was great.
After work yesterday I went straight to my electronics store to get the components, and I now have a modded 580EX and 550EX.
The 550EX is slightly more fiddly, because you need to take the bottom half apart. However, I prefer the result because the plug is better positioned. There's plenty of room for it at on the side of the unit, next to the battery door, near the bottom.
Tim Armes
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