The rotating head offers good flexibility through a fairly standard 7 to 90 degrees up and down and 0 to left to right. The Yongnuo YN IV is another flash you can use with camera bodies from different manufacturers, a factor that can be useful.
So what are you getting for your money then? The good is that this is a unit with a wireless trigger that can work both as a master and a slave. The recycle speed between flash bursts is good.
This is a nice flash for those learning to use off-camera lighting for the first time. This is a great unit that is cheaper than its Canon and Nikon counterparts, but offers just as much if not more in features.
The first thing that really stands out is that this flash uses a lithium-ion battery, as opposed to the double A batteries other strobes tend to use. This gives you a lot more power before this battery runs out, though if you need additional batteries their not cheap. The flashgun also comes with both IR and RF triggering as both a master and a slave.
Hahnel offers deals to buy two units, giving you much more lighting flexibility. The Metz Mecablitz 64 AF-1 is a top of the line flashgun, with an expensive price tag to go with it. Is it worth the money then? It packs a GN 64m power rating with a range from mm, and a 14mm diffuser. A nice extra bonus not seen on other flashes is that there is a small fill flash that can be used when you bounce the main flash off in a different direction.
To change the settings there is a nice intuitive touch screen panel on the back of the flash. This guide will have given you a range of options, with the brand specific flashes difficult to look past.
It also comes with a bit in focal length reader, so the flash is connected to the zoom range of your camera and can increase the power of the light by how far you are from your subject. So you may be wondering what TTL stands for. This is based on the exposure settings determined by the camera. TTL flashes have been around for a long time. TTL is essentially working with your camera to determine proper exposure given to the flash through the camera.
The TTL setting considers what your shutter speed, aperture, and ISO are set to and then sets the powers of the flash to match. Basically, flash refers to any artificial electronic light being used instead of natural or ambient light.
So a flash could be anything from a studio lighting setup to a flashgun. However, that does not mean the Speedlight has to connect directly to your camera, as they can be set up on stands or tripods as well to work off-camera.
So how do you choose a camera flash? With so many options on the market, it may feel daunting to try and choose which flash is best for you. Here are a few of the things you should look for when choosing a camera flash.
Guide numbers are defined by aperture ratio and distance. Simply put, a flash guide number will state how far the light from the flash will reach based on the basic settings of your camera. The higher the guide number, the farther the reach of the flash.
More advanced flashes have wireless capabilities that allow your camera to turn them on without attaching to your DSLR, but instead using infrared or radio frequencies to talk to each other. Being able to move your flash off-camera gives you much more wiggle room to get creative and make your light work in any situation.
Nothing is worse than shooting a wedding or other stressful event, and you miss the shot because your flash took too long to power up again. This is where recycling speeds come into play.
They indicate how long your flash takes to become ready to flash again. If you are photographing runners or other fast-moving events, recycle speeds are very important. Pro flashes usually come with many different sync modes. But one of the most important modes is the high-speed sync. This allows the flash to continuously flash bursts of light so that you can up your shutter speed above your flash sync.
If you do not have this control, then parts of your photo will turn black as an effect of missing the sync. Make sure to look closely at the flash you invest in before buying to see that it rotates and tilts as much as possible. This will save you headaches later while shooting. If you are new to flash setups, then you may not know certain flashes only work with certain brands of cameras. We will stick to the top products of Canon and Nikon for this article.
Still, there is another section below with information on other camera flash setups compatible with Nikon or Canon. This is one of the top camera flashes by Canon because of its ideal bounce angles. Before the camera shutter clicks, the strobe flashes rapidly twice to illuminate your subject. The Canon EX also offers a semi-automatic feature that allows you to bounce off a reflector or other surface. Join the Tribe: YouTube. Bruce runs photo workshops and provides 1 on 1 digital photography coaching.
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If you have trouble playing the video, see these tips. Hi, Phil Steele here. And I am long overdue for a complete review of the Canon flash lineup because the last time I did one of these it was two years ago and Canon has released a couple of new flashes since then so it's time to revisit the whole Canon flash system and see if we can figure out which one of these flashes is right for your needs.
Now I'm going to go through the whole lineup from the low end to the high end in price and functionality. There are five flashes we're going to consider and we're going to start with the smallest one--the little EXand that's this little guy right here. As you can see, it's a very small flash. This is the most limited and lightest and least expensive of the Canon flashes.
It's limited in many ways compared to the larger ones. It can bounce. By pulling out the little head you can bounce the light off a ceiling but it cannot swivel from side to side. And more importantly, to me, it lacks the infrared focus assist beam that the larger flashes have that help you focus in the dark.
If you're trying to focus with this one in the dark it does the little annoying pre-flash thing that blinds your subject. That really rules it out for certain situations for me. It's also very limited in its slave kind of functionality. It can act as a slave using the light-based Canon master-slave system but it has no manual mode so it can't be used as a slave with radio triggers, which is the way I prefer to work so it's a very limited little flash.
And if you saw my previous Canon flash review you know I gave a really hard time to this little flash. But I've softened my opinion on it a little bit since then and I'll tell you three situations where I think this flash is useful. One is what you see right here.
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