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Visit the Support! page for more information on how your support helps keep this blog going.Yongnuo YN685 Wireless TTL Speedlite for Canon Cameras If you’d like to pick one up, please support this blog, and check it out on Amazon with this link: Yongnuo YN560 II Speedlight. For location work, I have a bracket that can accept three or four of these, and allows me to shoot in pretty much any outdoor lighting condition easily. Perfect flashes for a location kit, though I use them 90% of the time for studio work as well. They have everything you need, and for those who shoot all manual, nothing you don’t. Compared to a Canon 580exII and SB900 which both measured in at f/4 and 6/10 in the same exact test only minutes later, it’s 1/10 of a stop lower in power.
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The flash put out f/4 and 5/10 at ISO 100. This would be a practical application of this flash in normal use.
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At ISO 100, full power, at 8 feet, (so 10′ or so total distance – flash to umbrella, to subject) through a diffusion screen. I set the flash in a 42” umbrella softbox, with the zoom set to 28mm to fill it. What matters is practical power, and how it stacks up against the competition. See a practical comparison of popular flashes here. However, when used in modifiers as many of us will likely be doing, when it’s set to 24 or 35mm zoom, the beam is spread out, and the guide number (though somewhat of a misleading metric) is lower. Sure for sports, and other things, where you can set to 105mm, that much power is useful. For how most of us here will use these flashes, it’s bloated by the zoom, similar to how Canon’s 580exII has a GN of 58. Guide Number of 58 is somewhat of a vanity rating. Misha – Canon 5D1 – 50mm 1.4 – YN560 II flash – Flashpoint 86″ Silver Parabolic Umbrella
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It could be a useful tool if your wireless triggers break, or get left behind. Hotshoe and PC syncing worked reliably as you would expect. My flashes were 10-15 feet from me, with the optical receiver facing the opposite direction on some. I then opened up my camera’s pop-up flash (I was using a Canon 40D for this shoot) and started shooting away. To test this out, I turned off the triggers to my flashes and set them all to S2. I tested S2 mode at the same shoot, S2 is optical trigger with pre-flash suppression. Expect it to be less effective outdoors in the sun. ¼ power from my main flash fired in the opposite direction triggered it just fine.
I did a shoot in a basketball gym, and to test it out a little, placed one in the top of the bleachers on the opposite side of the court. Optical slave mode works as intended, with good range. I have used the hotshoe, PC, Optical, and Optical with preflash suppression sync modes quite a lot over the past couple years. The flashes look great, and I’m not ashamed to show up to a big shoot with a bag full of these. Adjusting power is simple and easy to understand, with a nice LCD screen to confirm settings. Quality and feel are just a touch less than the flagship name brand flashes, but not by much. This flash feels very solid, and not really much different than the Canon 580exII I had previous to buying my first YN560 II.