http://steelevisions.com/blog/off-camera-flash/ Life seen through the lens of photographer Phil Steele Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:12:02 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://steelevisions.com/blog/off-camera-flash/comment-page-1/#comment-336 Phil Steele Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:42:31 +0000 http://steelevisions.com/blog/?p=310#comment-336 Debbie, I believe you usually get what you pay for in camera gear, and I only buy Canon flashes for my Canon cameras. As I understand it the Nissin is compatible with the EOS cameras and functionally similar to the 430EX in most ways. It will certainly serve you as a starter flash. But I believe it lacks the built-in TTL wireless functionality you get when using all-Canon gear. It has a generic optical slave that will fire it when triggered by another flash, but that's not the same as Canon's TTL system. That won't matter until you get to multi-flash setups, though, and it won't matter if you like working with all-manual power settings and don't intend to use TTL flash metering. You'll learn more about all this if you watch my flash portrait course, but for now I hope that helps. Debbie, I believe you usually get what you pay for in camera gear, and I only buy Canon flashes for my Canon cameras. As I understand it the Nissin is compatible with the EOS cameras and functionally similar to the 430EX in most ways. It will certainly serve you as a starter flash. But I believe it lacks the built-in TTL wireless functionality you get when using all-Canon gear. It has a generic optical slave that will fire it when triggered by another flash, but that’s not the same as Canon’s TTL system. That won’t matter until you get to multi-flash setups, though, and it won’t matter if you like working with all-manual power settings and don’t intend to use TTL flash metering. You’ll learn more about all this if you watch my flash portrait course, but for now I hope that helps.

]]> http://steelevisions.com/blog/off-camera-flash/comment-page-1/#comment-335 Debbie Sladen Sun, 27 Feb 2011 22:37:16 +0000 http://steelevisions.com/blog/?p=310#comment-335 I bought a Nissin Digital Speedlite Di22 for my Canon Eos Rebel recommended to me from a person at Adorama. Is this comparable to the Canon 430 EX that you recommend? I haven't used it yet because I need to take your course in flash photography in the near future. Do you know anything about this flash? The man at Adorama told me that this was the flash I needed. Thanks. Debbie Sladen I bought a Nissin Digital Speedlite Di22 for my Canon Eos Rebel recommended to me from a person at Adorama. Is this comparable to the Canon 430 EX that you recommend? I haven’t used it yet because I need to take your course in flash photography in the near future. Do you know anything about this flash? The man at Adorama told me that this was the flash I needed. Thanks. Debbie Sladen

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