The YN-500EX is that latest TTL and HSS enabled speedlite from YongNuo, and a smaller version of the current flagship YN-568EX, and currently the lowest priced HSS enabled flash available. YongNuo have even called the YN-500EX the “Mini YN-568EX” as it has almost exactly the same features and function...
YongNuo have announced the MK II version of the very popular YN-568EX TTL & HSS flash for Canon will be available from June 13. The new YN-568EX II is exactly the same as the current YN-568EX except for an added Master control for the Canon optic wireless system. For...
Not happy just be first with an inexpensive Bare Bulb Speedlight, Triopo have done it again, this time with the first inexpensive Remote Manual Speedlite with 2.4GHz radio triggers built in! The TR-850EX are basic manual flash units, but with 2.4GHz radio master and slave units built in. So...
The fully featured TTL and HSS enabled Phottix Mitros flash unit for Canon is now available online from the Phottix Online Store. Be sure to check your local retailer first though as you may actually save a few dollars there. The Mitros is listed at $349 plus a small...
The Triopo TR-120 bare bulb and TTL speedlite is now available on Amazon for just $99 – in the re-branded form of a Polaroid PL-135, in Canon and Nikon versions. The TR-120, up until now only sold in China, was promising not only to be the first inexpensive bare bulb speedlight,...
The YN-560 III is the latest version of YongNuo’s flagship manual speeedlite, and its the first all manual speedlite with a radio trigger receiver built in for firing the flash reliably off camera. Compatible with both the existing and very popular RF-603 II, RF-603 and RF-602 radio triggers. UPDATE...
The Godox Witstro AD180 is the first serious manual bare bulb hotshoe flash alternative to emerge, with 150WS, Remote Manual Power Control, and even remote FP HSS, filling the void left when flashes like the popular Sunpak 120J where discontinued a number of years ago. Update – Godox also...
The long awaited Phottix MITROS top of the line TTL flash is now available for Canon!, with Nikon version to follow in coming months, and a Sony version later in the year. Expected retail around $299. They say good things come to those that wait, and the Phottix fully...
Pixel HK have started promoting an upcoming new speedlite at their industry trade show stands. The Pixel Flash Light would be their first flash unit, and the graphics certainly show a very impressive looking design, with very large LCD and easy to access control dial. An LED on the...
US based Lumopro have release the first teaser image of their upcoming LP-180 fully manual strobist speedlight which is currently in development and due for release later in the year. So what do we know about the new LP-180? Well other than its the replacement to the original and very...
The YN-568EX is the latest flagship TTL flash from YongNuo, and the first flash unit from a Chinese manufacture to feature High Speed Sync (HSS) allowing camera shutter speeds up to 1/8000th of a second. Released just in time to team up with the new, and already very popular, YN-622C ETTL and HSS enabled radio triggers...
For just a couple of hundred dollars you can quite easily get started in off camera lighting now with a very decent kit of 3 basic manual YN-560 speedlights and RF-602 radio triggers. Manual is a great off camera, and often the best way to learn anyway, but remote control of the power levels from the...
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