Flash Gun Recommendations
Discussion
I'll keep this short. I had 3 flash guns a couple of months ago and now I have 0. The battery leaked in my Marumi, my 430 EX II had its reflector fall out and now refuses to play nice and my 3rd flash I will discuss next.
I want to keep the price as inexpensive as possible. It's to go on (or linked to) a 5D II. It'll be primarily for portraiture with other misc uses so the recharge time between flashes in important to me. This is where I'm at:
Canon: good but pretty expensive and nothing special for that dosh.
Yongnuo: was told these were the king of budget flash gunnery. The first one I bought (YN-560 I believe) arrived and wasn't working from the off. I sent it back and got a replacement. That flash worked for 1 shoot and then a month later refused to turn on again. It hadn't been dropped, mishandled or so much as bumped and as it had been a month, it was apparently out of refund period. I emailed Yongnuo but they're not much up for talking to customers.
Advice please my go-to army of veteran 'togs.
I want to keep the price as inexpensive as possible. It's to go on (or linked to) a 5D II. It'll be primarily for portraiture with other misc uses so the recharge time between flashes in important to me. This is where I'm at:
Canon: good but pretty expensive and nothing special for that dosh.
Yongnuo: was told these were the king of budget flash gunnery. The first one I bought (YN-560 I believe) arrived and wasn't working from the off. I sent it back and got a replacement. That flash worked for 1 shoot and then a month later refused to turn on again. It hadn't been dropped, mishandled or so much as bumped and as it had been a month, it was apparently out of refund period. I emailed Yongnuo but they're not much up for talking to customers.
Advice please my go-to army of veteran 'togs.
Hi Rob,
All i can add is that i have used the Yongnuo flashes for a couple of years now, currently have 4 x YN568EXii's and apart from a battery door issue with an earlier one they have performed faultlessly and that is with a lot of hard use up and down mountains with my mountain bike race photography.
Also using them with the YN622C transmitter and receivers and again no problems whatsoever.
All i can add is that i have used the Yongnuo flashes for a couple of years now, currently have 4 x YN568EXii's and apart from a battery door issue with an earlier one they have performed faultlessly and that is with a lot of hard use up and down mountains with my mountain bike race photography.
Also using them with the YN622C transmitter and receivers and again no problems whatsoever.
I have 3 Yongnuo 568EX ( you want the Mk2 for Canon as it can be a wireless master ) flashes, all faultless, one is over a year old and has had about 10,000 flashes put through it. Currently using one as power for a rayflash ring light on camera, and then the other two as bounce/fills.
I may get a Nissin Di866 next, it is meant be very powerful and has a neat feature where it has a small forward facing flash, and the main flash is on a swivel, so you can get a fill plus bounce for nice catchlights. It also works as a master flash for Nikon CLS and I believe the canon does the same.
I may get a Nissin Di866 next, it is meant be very powerful and has a neat feature where it has a small forward facing flash, and the main flash is on a swivel, so you can get a fill plus bounce for nice catchlights. It also works as a master flash for Nikon CLS and I believe the canon does the same.
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