leeboy22001
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Hi All,
I bought a Jessops 360AFD for my 450D a week ago and so far I have to say I've been pretty impressed! Cost me £71 (after 10% discount).
I'm quite new to flash photography and just starting to understand bounce, diffusing etc.. and been playing around with it. At the weekend I went to a wedding and took some what I think are great indoor shots
, and alot of them you wouldn't even think it was taken with a flash! I also took some close up portrait shots of my little niece using flash bounce of walls and came out really good, with correct colour balance almost every time! There was once a time I hated flash, but I guess that's the built in flashes for you :thumbsdown: .
But going back to the 360AFD, I'm surprised at the feature set for £71. To me it feels quite well built, has manual mode, supports E-TTL II if camera has it (mine does). Has an LCD display showing ISO, Aperture, lens zoom position and focal length. I can even adjust flash compensation via the canons "Flash exp comp" menu to give me +-2 EV stops. Only has optical slave, but not the end of the world.
I'm now so converted to flash that I was even tempted to go for a secondhand canon 580ex already! but not sure at my level what extra feature it would give me??? or keep the Jessops 360AFD??
Lee
I bought a Jessops 360AFD for my 450D a week ago and so far I have to say I've been pretty impressed! Cost me £71 (after 10% discount).
I'm quite new to flash photography and just starting to understand bounce, diffusing etc.. and been playing around with it. At the weekend I went to a wedding and took some what I think are great indoor shots
, and alot of them you wouldn't even think it was taken with a flash! I also took some close up portrait shots of my little niece using flash bounce of walls and came out really good, with correct colour balance almost every time! There was once a time I hated flash, but I guess that's the built in flashes for you :thumbsdown: . But going back to the 360AFD, I'm surprised at the feature set for £71. To me it feels quite well built, has manual mode, supports E-TTL II if camera has it (mine does). Has an LCD display showing ISO, Aperture, lens zoom position and focal length. I can even adjust flash compensation via the canons "Flash exp comp" menu to give me +-2 EV stops. Only has optical slave, but not the end of the world.
I'm now so converted to flash that I was even tempted to go for a secondhand canon 580ex already! but not sure at my level what extra feature it would give me??? or keep the Jessops 360AFD??
Lee
