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I have one, dont use it much though. Yes using the flash always makes the pictures look better. Other than that the automatic system is one of the best on the market.
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Such a strange thing to say. If you're shooting during the day, the flash can be used to fill dark shadows, or add a catchlight to a model's eyes. However, the onboard flash generally sucks at doing both of these things, because-
1) It's nowhere near as powerful as it needs to be
2) It has a terrible coverage, angle wise, meaning that you'll get a hotspot in the photo, and a shadow all around
3) It's onboard, meaning your fingers, and more ususally lens / lens hoods will block it. It's also in a perfect position for returning redeye, and 'holiday snap' looks.
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Not sure if you have one yet, but an external speedlight is a must have. Cannon has a 550EX and 420EX which will slide right on and work great right out of the box....
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Actually, they have the 580EX, which is lighter, much mor intuitive, cheaper, and has a faster recycle period.
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I like its built-in little flash better than the external since the external seems to over expose my pics in auto mode, however, can be fixed in manual but manual to me is now pain in the ass since otherwise rebel does almost as good w/auto.
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I don't know where to start with this one.
The speedlites are generally acknowledged as the best flashes in the industry. That aside, and I say this in the nicest possible way, if you don't know how to use them, they'll give you shit results.
Read that manual, read that manual lots. Read the table in the back with the exposure information (Ie, to the person who was talking about shooting in full power - I'd be interested to know why you needed to shoot in full power) - you'd be very very surprised at how far 1/128th setting goes.
Finally, and I could probably confidently say this is where you're going wrong - the camera reads its exposure from the focal point. If you focus on something beside or behind your subject, the flash is going to try to light that area, and so will fire more powerfully, overexposing your subject.
Bear in mind too, that the EOS digital rebel only has 7 AF points, meaning they cover a lot of area, so again, you might have them pointed at someone, but the AF area covers the area behind them too.
- Hence the reason that the 1V, 1ds etc have over 45 AF points.
End of lecture. Submit questions in written form.