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 …
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One of the great advantages of on-camera flash is that there’s somewhere to mount your flash built-in to the camera. With off-camera flash many people start with cables, leads, radio triggers but the most important bit is how to put the flash off-camera and it stay there. Nobody has produced the self-levitating flash that just …
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After reading Syl Arena’s book the Speedliters Handbook I decided to purchase one of the 10 metre long OCF33 off camera cords that Syl was selling. Right after receiving the cable I started to experiment with some set-ups using the long cable to put a speedlite a long way off-camera. It works as I expected, …
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When Canon launched the EOS 600D with a built-in Speedlite flash master function, it was quite reasonable for them to introduce a new lower cost entry to the world of off-camera Speedlite flash too. However in the drive for low cost I think they have had to make too many compromises with the Speedlite 270EX …
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