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Older Canon flashes generally  -work- on newer Canon cameras except you loose the automatic control and must set the exposure manually.  If you start putting 3rd party flashes then the trigger voltage can be a problem because they were designed to work on many brands not just Canon (it would have been a huge design flaw if a canon flash could damage a canon camera).  So your flash will probably not hurt anything, but its going to be very limited.

I noticed it does trigger, shoot and reset, except the time it takes to reset can be a few seconds so you might miss something if it hapens multiple times over a short time.  But, I discovered also, the image review custom function is what causes most of the delay.  If you turn it off, the reset time reduces down to 1/2 second.  I would call it a feature, you could increase the reset time by setting the display to a longer time(2, 4, 8 sec) or maybe even forever using the 'hold' value.  Observed this on 5dmkii.

Does anyone know how and if it is possible to create a picture style that converts the images to a negative?  I am using my camera to make digital copies of a 35mm negative and want the camera to automatically convert the image to a positive. 

I like the idea of having ML off by default sometimes.  Instead of reversing the operation of the set button, how about making it toggle.  For example, you push set on startup and ML turns off forever, until you press set again on startup and then ML turns on forever....until you repeat.  This way, I know that when I turn my camera on to grab a quick video or something I don't have to remember to push set al the time.  I would probably use ML only sometimes and most often shoot with the default camera f/w.

Is it possible to shoot in video mode one frame at a time?  Similar to time lapse, except I want to use the trigger release/button press to capture each frame.  This would be used for making an animation straight out of the camera already in the form of a MOV file.

Me too!  I felt like it was too much of a learning curve to make a time lapse.  Why not just have a setting for shutter speed and degrees of shutter?  Nobdy understands the internal timers and the way they are displayed on the menu.

It says 'already done', but how do you do it?  I can't find it on the menus on my camera.

I was trying this too.  Had the same confusion as the original poster did.  Once I figured out you can set the camera speed to 4000 and the frame rate up a little bit and placing the camera on Tv mode, I can get pretty decent images with no blur.  I don't see the appeal to having motion blur, maybe it depends on the application.  My application was to run a security camera type operation where the time lapse gives you an overview of what happened and the individual frames give you detail, such as a license plate number...  Maybe you want motion blur for a timelapse of clouds or something for smoother looking video.  I think the documentation could be improved, maybe if it was described from a users point of view instead of jello view would be better.  As a user, I think about it like this...1. set the frame rate, 2. set the shutter speed... any thoughts about jello or timers comes after I decide if the quality is good enough or not.