OCF on a budget

Having recently sold my SB900 to free up some cash for a studio flash kit I stupidly forgot I may just need fill flash for the great outdoors.

So thank you to the OP for this thread. I've ordered one and will await it's arrival.

One question, will it be possible to light the rear of a subject with this strobe but use 2 studio lights as the main lighting in a portrait?
So all 3 working together.

Thanks,

Terry.
 
GreenNinja67 said:
Having recently sold my SB900 to free up some cash for a studio flash kit I stupidly forgot I may just need fill flash for the great outdoors.

So thank you to the OP for this thread. I've ordered one and will await it's arrival.

One question, will it be possible to light the rear of a subject with this strobe but use 2 studio lights as the main lighting in a portrait?
So all 3 working together.

Thanks,

Terry.
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Simple answer is yes.
You'll need the full spec to know whether there's an optical slave, but without that it'll depend on your triggering mechanism (not for whether you can do it, but for how and how much)
 
GreenNinja67 said:
Thanks Phil,

I've got an optical slave module somewhere.

I'll give that a go.
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I was saying there may be one built into the flash, it's not clear from the listing. For clarity, the Yongnuo flashes have one.
 
Yep definitely worth a punt at that price, I was going to buy a couple of Shannys after Xmas, but may give one of these a go, FYI also available on Amazon UK for a few pence more with free delivery, probably a bit easier if you need to return for any reason :)

Made me smile how the box is fashioned after Nikon, same colouring :)
 
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Any one use these flash with the yn622n/tx? Do they work okay? Thanks
 
is the flash power consistent?

looks like a good deal - you could get 3 for a price of one SB.
 
Not bad, has a tendency to slightly overexpose but if shooting raw I can bring down the highlights and recover all information.
 
GreenNinja67 said:
Not bad, has a tendency to slightly overexpose but if shooting raw I can bring down the highlights and recover all information.
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Thanks, do you use it with yn622n triggers?
 
They look interesting. I've had a pair of the cheap manual yungyuo flashes for a couple of years, cost about £35 each and are perfect for lighting a background, one either side. I trigger those with yn622 triggers, with canon 550 ex2 flashes in softboxes for the fill. Works well
 
GreenNinja67 said:
Not bad, has a tendency to slightly overexpose but if shooting raw I can bring down the highlights and recover all information.
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In theory, neither the flash gun nor any trigger should have any influence on exposure in auto-TTL mode - assuming everything is correctly calibrated together. The flash simply fires at a certain power as instructed, decided by the camera after measurement of the pre-flash.
 
All from hotshoe on camera.

ISO 200 Apeture priority and either bounced or direct.

Both ways are slightly over exposed occassionally.


But for 40 quid I'm not moaning
 
HoppyUK said:
In theory, neither the flash gun nor any trigger should have any influence on exposure in auto-TTL mode - assuming everything is correctly calibrated together. The flash simply fires at a certain power as instructed, decided by the camera after measurement of the pre-flash.
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That may be true in theory, but I had a couple of cheapo ttl units that made a hash of exposure regularly - especially when bounced.
 
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