good flash for weddings? is there a good flash that cheap, third partys are fine, im looking for something with a decent recycle rate.
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Stefanie, for your budget look at the Canon Speedlite 270EX Flash and a Sto-Fen Omni-Bounce for the Canon 270EX Flash. You'll want the flash angled up, so you don't get that washed out zombie look. But, given the situation you describe the 270EX should be fine.
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I have a SB 800 and a friend let use his SB 900 for a portrait shoot when mine was in the shop. The flash rocked, if you going to be serious go ahead and pick one up. No sense in buying up incrementally if you know this is where your going to be anyway.
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sorry about seeing this too late...hope the other 2 answers gave you an idea what to do. another flash is expensive...a pocket wizard is pricey too...i have use use the cowboy trigger system, and they work fine for me...the cowboy trigger works for Nikon too, so when i shoot with my friend who uses a nikon, we can bother trigger the flash
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Hi Connie, I wish I could answer this question with more detail. I don't know much about flashes. I could tell you thiss...I've used it for 2 small photoshoots and it worked perfectly fine. I bought this item because my brother which is a photographer raved about it. I know he purchased his over a year ago and his is still also working perfectly fine. Hope this helped a bit.
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The built in flash is okay for occasional use. If you plan to do a lot of indoor flash photography, you may want to get an external flash. I have a GX1 and have not bothered to buy one but I don't shoot a lot indoors and when I do it tends to be table-top photography of small items and I use separate lighting system for that. There are several relatively inexpensive external flash units for GX1 that get pretty good reviews if you choose to buy one. Hope this helps you out.
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No problem. Just pay mind its a harsh flash. If you're planning on using the camera casually its great, but you might eventually want to go the extra mile for a nicer model for the flash itself. Two cents.
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I am a Canon shooter, but several of my friends use Nikons. We all feel the SanDisk compact flash cards are the most reliable. I have been using SanDisk cards for nearly ten years, and Those cards are still reliable. I can't say that about some other cheaper brands. Each of the others worked fine at first, but they eventually failed, some after as few as 6 months. For my shooting, a 16 GB compact flash card is almost always sufficient, but I do carry a 4GB and an 8GB card just in case.
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Yes, I sent mine back. I don't recommend it. You can get better flash on here for same money or less. Look up Yongnu.
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I've never used any Yongnuo... I don't do cheap ..I tell you this, I've been shooting for over 36 years and Pocketwizards are cream of the crop. I'm a professional photographer. If you have a budget go with that, but as my golden rule is...INVEST IN THEY SELF...You get what you pay for.
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I've only used the built-in flash, which I like as it's quite flexible, which can operate from full flash to 1/64 for subtle lighting support. In full flash combined with one of the filters (such as the grainy black and white filter) you can get some pretty dramatic effects.
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The only way I could answer your question is that the Sunpak is a good flash. I have used it as a fill flash a lot for nature photography, used it in a cave in total darkness, used it at weddings with excellent results. As for its longevity, that I can't answer but it is sturdy enough to be banged around because I will be taking it overseas for a month but it has been banged around a lot already, so it is sturdy. For the price, it is worth buying but that is my opinion only. My photography buddy also has one, and he uses it every weekend.
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This flash should be more than enough for the shooting you'd do with your camera. Take a close look at the feature set ...if you won't use a lot of the features on this flash, you can buy a cheaper one and still be happy.
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Thanks NutMac. I just got the Canon XSi so I'm guessing that would control this flash (being very new itself). The one thing I didn't consider before was that the price of this new 430EX II will be at list price for a while, making it a lot more expensive that the current model! That will put it out of my price range, so I guess I'm sticking with the older technology for now! Thanks again,Stew
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Not bad, I would suggest going to the more expensive no-flash if you can afford it? If not this is a great camera for the money, I had one mature deer get spooked from the leds firing. Takes nice pics, make sure you go with a 4gb or bigger card and what Browning recommends for sd cards.
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check out the manual, its doing both (charging flash and writing cached buffer on the memory), meaning i may well need an external (ohh gooding!!!! more stuff for my camera) so for such a case, what external flash unit would you recommend, cause i've been looking at the at different ones, and the one that fits my needs the best according to what i've seen is the 430EX II by canon, what your insight is it to much to little?
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I use this flash on my Nikon D3100. So far I have only used it with the 4 AA batteries. I have not used it for any long shoots but I have used it for many short ones, and as of yet, (over a year) have only had to change the batteries once. I feel it was an excellent buy for minimal cost.
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So far I have not had a problem with the flash. However, most of the photos I have taken have been landscapes with good lighting so the flash hasn't been used all that much. Sorry I haven't anymore info and good luck.