[MercianPhotography]

Hi all,

This is my first post. I'm pulling my hair out here. I bought a Nissin DI866 Mark II after reading reviews in PhotoPlus magazine. I've never used a flash gun before and wanted to have another tool to expand and play with.

When it's directly attached to the camera I can get it to work no problem. But my understanding was that the 550D was 'wireless' and the Di866 was 'wireless', and as such I should be able to get the flash to work off-camera.

The problem is I can't get it to work off-camera, at all. I've read in the Nissin manual that for the flash to work off-camera it needs to be set to Remote as opposed to Master. I can set the Di866 to Remote and selected Channel 1 on Group A.

I don't get it. And for all the on-line searching I've done, I seem to be getting nowhere.

I'm hoping someone has the same set up and can talk me through what I'm doing wrong.

With hopeful anticipation...