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Speedlites arrived – first thoughts My new Speedlite 600EX-RTs and ST-E3-RT arrived just over twenty four hours ago, rather fortuitous as I need to be demonstrating them at some upcoming events soon. First impressions, the radio is easy to set-up, I didn’t need to read the manual and was able to get the two 600EX’s …

Very pleased to say my EOS 5D Mark III is now in my hands Even more fun is coming real soon because there are also some Speedlite 600EX-RTs and an ST-E3 on the way too… Fortunately I don’t own a cat so I won’t be testing it by taking cat pictures, but instead it will …

Fill-in flash depends on the camera exposure mode Fill-in flash is often used to reduce the contrast that occurs in photos that have a bright backlight, these typically leave your subject with a dark face as it’s in shadow. Adding a pop of flash will lower the contrast range and light the face. Canon E-TTL …

I was pleasantly surprised to see USA based photographer Syl Arena with samples of the new Speedlites before the launch, especially when the flashes were sent by Canon Europe. However Canon Professional Network (CPN) have done a really good thing to make sure that Syl  was one of the first to get hands on with the …

Spring appears to be with us and Canon UK wants to encourage you to go out and spend on new kit with their EURO 2012 Cash Back promotion that runs from now until 5th of June 2012. You need to get any claims in by 31st July 2012. I think there’s a couple of mistakes …

Tyler Stableford is a Canon USA Explorer of Light, he’s been given the task to try out the new Speedlite 600EX-RT and the ST-E3 Speedlite transmitter in conjunction with the EOS-1Dx. The results are seen in a new video that Tyler has posted on Vimeo.

I’ve reached my own blog milestone with this post, it’s blog post number 100 to be published here on p4pictures. When I started blogging on this site I had many ideas and thoughts about what I would say, things started off slowly and admittedly last summer it got a bit slow for updates, but at …

So that was Focus 2012… Finally with the doors closed, the visitors gone and stands packed down I think it’s time to share my thoughts on the Focus on Imaging show. I haven’t seen official attendance figures, but there were times each day when some walkways were so busy it was hard to move around …

The Uk’s biggest annual photography and imaging show, Focus on Imaging from the 4th to 7th of March lets get close to the latest and greatest that the industry has to offer. I’m really happy to say i’ll be there on the Canon booth – L26, right in front of the entrance at hall 10 …

Thanks to twitter follower @garyvorster for asking me the following question that lead to this post.