Customer Rating: 
Summary: Nice When You Need It
Comment: I got this cord mainly for Macro work so that I could use long Macro lenses along with my flash without having to deal with the lens shadow in the picture. It is also very nice to be able to control the direction of the lighting by placing the flash above, below, or beside the subject. Red eye can also be almost entirely reduced by moving the flash further away from the camera body, so this cord is helpful for portrait work. It could be a little longer, but the longer it gets the more difficult it would be to pack it small spaces, so all-in-all I think they did a pretty good job. It works fine, if you want all of your flash's functionally, but don't want it in the hotshoe, this is a good choice.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Don't Leave Home Without this!!
Comment: This camera cord shoe works well. However, it can break relatively easily so I suggest having two at any given time. Also, the cord length can be too short at times and two long depending on your needs.
Customer Rating:
Summary: As good as expected
Comment: It gave me the option to change the angle of the light... this is a nice option to have I am sure!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Buy a backup cord because they have a short life
Comment: I am on my third off-camera cord (about one per year). Two have broken. As other reviewers noted, the four screws under the metal retaining clip on the "female" end of the cord loosen and eventually fail.
I have found that a thin narrow knife can be used to remove the black "spring" cover over the screws on the shoe. You can then tighten the screws with a screwdriver. If you use Locktite on the screws then they will not loosen. Canon should do this at the factory.
I use this cord with a Stroboframe "portrait/landscape" grip which raises the flash over the camera by six inches thus eliminating red eye and providing a much more pleasing light. The stroboframe grip comes with the right size threaded screw for this cord.
When my cords failed I lost the extended-through the lens metering just like another reviewer noted.
I am not a professional photographer and only use the camera occasionally yet the cord still fails. Canon should re-engineer this cord to make it more durable.
Unfortunately, I do not believe that there are alternative cords. It looks like I will need to keep buying Canon cords.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Weak screw connectors and hot shoe mount
Comment: I have been using this cord for about a year, and I had problems with its durability. It actually worked fine for a for the first 5 months, but then it started to fall apart. When mounted on the hotshoe of my flash bracket, the thin plastic shoe (where the flash is attached to) developed a crack and eventually broke off, making it useless to mount the flash. I had to buy a replacement part from Canon (who charged me $16 for this small plastic piece). I flipped the flash carefully from then on, but then it still cracked!! I wrote to Canon and asked them to reinforce the bottom maybe made of metal instead of thin plastic. So far, there is no response. A few months later, the cord, for some unknown reason, makes my 550ex flash switch from the ETTL to TTL mode, and making the flash fire at full power, overexposing the entire image. I checked the flash by putting it directly on the camera's hotshoe, and the flash worked fine, switching back to the ETTL mode. For a piece of equipment from Canon, it's hard to imagine it giving so many problems. It's like they only paid tons more attention to their cameras than their accessories. As there are no other OEM manufacturers of this cord, I am forced to get another one and hope for the best.
Summary: Nice When You Need It
Comment: I got this cord mainly for Macro work so that I could use long Macro lenses along with my flash without having to deal with the lens shadow in the picture. It is also very nice to be able to control the direction of the lighting by placing the flash above, below, or beside the subject. Red eye can also be almost entirely reduced by moving the flash further away from the camera body, so this cord is helpful for portrait work. It could be a little longer, but the longer it gets the more difficult it would be to pack it small spaces, so all-in-all I think they did a pretty good job. It works fine, if you want all of your flash's functionally, but don't want it in the hotshoe, this is a good choice.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Don't Leave Home Without this!!
Comment: This camera cord shoe works well. However, it can break relatively easily so I suggest having two at any given time. Also, the cord length can be too short at times and two long depending on your needs.
Customer Rating:
Summary: As good as expected
Comment: It gave me the option to change the angle of the light... this is a nice option to have I am sure!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Buy a backup cord because they have a short life
Comment: I am on my third off-camera cord (about one per year). Two have broken. As other reviewers noted, the four screws under the metal retaining clip on the "female" end of the cord loosen and eventually fail.
I have found that a thin narrow knife can be used to remove the black "spring" cover over the screws on the shoe. You can then tighten the screws with a screwdriver. If you use Locktite on the screws then they will not loosen. Canon should do this at the factory.
I use this cord with a Stroboframe "portrait/landscape" grip which raises the flash over the camera by six inches thus eliminating red eye and providing a much more pleasing light. The stroboframe grip comes with the right size threaded screw for this cord.
When my cords failed I lost the extended-through the lens metering just like another reviewer noted.
I am not a professional photographer and only use the camera occasionally yet the cord still fails. Canon should re-engineer this cord to make it more durable.
Unfortunately, I do not believe that there are alternative cords. It looks like I will need to keep buying Canon cords.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Weak screw connectors and hot shoe mount
Comment: I have been using this cord for about a year, and I had problems with its durability. It actually worked fine for a for the first 5 months, but then it started to fall apart. When mounted on the hotshoe of my flash bracket, the thin plastic shoe (where the flash is attached to) developed a crack and eventually broke off, making it useless to mount the flash. I had to buy a replacement part from Canon (who charged me $16 for this small plastic piece). I flipped the flash carefully from then on, but then it still cracked!! I wrote to Canon and asked them to reinforce the bottom maybe made of metal instead of thin plastic. So far, there is no response. A few months later, the cord, for some unknown reason, makes my 550ex flash switch from the ETTL to TTL mode, and making the flash fire at full power, overexposing the entire image. I checked the flash by putting it directly on the camera's hotshoe, and the flash worked fine, switching back to the ETTL mode. For a piece of equipment from Canon, it's hard to imagine it giving so many problems. It's like they only paid tons more attention to their cameras than their accessories. As there are no other OEM manufacturers of this cord, I am forced to get another one and hope for the best.
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