If you owned the original 580 then you know all the complaints about it, well Canon actually does listen.
List Of Improvements
1.Battery Door opens easy and smoothly
2.Metal Foot vs Plastic with new sliding lock vs spin lock
3.Weatherproof
4.Tougher build(You can hold it in your hand and just feel the difference)
5.20% Faster Recycling Time
6.PC Port(Great if your into Strobist)
Another feature that they modified is the Slave master switch,(I never use this feature)They have replaced it with the sliding lock and put the switch in the software of the flash.(you hold down the zoom button for 2 Sec)Also if you have a 1D Mark III, 1Ds Mark III, or 40D all of the CFN. can be controlled on the camera's lcd. Also this Flash is silent(except for the zoom of the flash head) no more whine while charging up. Also another feature that I have not seen mentioned anywhere is this flash has a kind of circuit breaker in it, if you are using a external battery pack and too much voltage surges through it it protect your flash from sudden death,(I was told about this feature by a canon tech when this happened to me on my original 580)
All in all you wan't be let down by this flash.
Get more detail about Canon Speedlite 580EX II Flash for Canon EOS Digital SLR Cameras.
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