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Even stepping slightly up the range, Godox easily stand toe-to-toe with Yongnuo on price, yet often beats it on features. Most importantly, though, Godox have a unifying system that encompasses all of their flash gear, even their older generation lights which don’t have built in radio triggers. You can buy external triggers for the older lights that are compatible with the current 2.4Ghz Godox system. When using the unit, I never once had an issue with the flash not firing or being out of range. Granted, I have never had a reason to get crazy far distances away from my flash, but I never had an issue with it being across a field or having the flash be inside while I was outside. Do not use this flash against the person needing high attention; otherwise, it may cause safety accident. Flash Power Again, the YongNuo YN460-II is very similar to the Nikon SB-800 in this regard. The head rotates 90° in one direction, 180° in other. It can be angled at 90° (pointing straight up), 75°, 60°, 45°, 0°, and -7°. (I'm basing the -7° angle on the Nikon SB-800, as this stop is not actually marked on the YN40-II flash but it has two distinct positions around 0°, just like the SB-800). Flash foot
xx[anything but zero]—Models that don't end in zero (e.g., YN-468, YN-565EX, YN-568EX II) have the full number of pins on the foot, and can communicate with the camera hotshoe to perform TTL. Models are brand-specific. There will be a Canon version, and there may be a Nikon version. There is one model for Pentax. They are not available for any other camera brands (e.g., Sony or mirrorless). If both Canon and Nikon versions exist for a model, the Canon version has silver lettering, the Nikon version has gold lettering. (See also: Are Yongnuo flashes interchangeable between dslr's or are they brand specific?) My biggest gripe with the entire system is that the on/off switches are too easy to change. I shoot with two cameras and thus, the camera I’m not using is always bumping into my body in one way or the other. This bumping has caused a transceiver to be turned off on a couple of occasions, causing me to miss a few shots before realizing it’s off. Also, they always seem to be in the on position when I get them out of my bag. This could be that they got turned on in the bag from moving around or that I forgot to turn them off. But that brings me to my next issue: they don't have a battery-saving mode when not in use. Instead, both the transceivers and the transmitter will just sit and blink their little LED lights until they are dead. LED autofocus assist light – The LED autofocus assist light is divided into low light and high light mode, which helps achieving rapid and precise focus. As for the naming system the only thing I've gathered is that there is no particular pattern that makes sense (at least to me). For instance, the 468 that I own comes in iTTL flavor which is for Nikon and in eTTL for Canon so I used to think i for Nikon, e for Canon. However, the 560EX is manual and the 565EX and 568EX are TTL for both Nikon and Canon. I have no idea what the EX is for. All I can say for sure is that the higher the number, the "more premium" the product but that only holds true for the second number as the first number (the 4 in 468 and the 5 in 560) seems to denote a series and from what I've researched my 468, which is probably the largest number in the 4 range is a more capable unit than the 560 which is a manual flash I'm planning to buy since I'm so satisfied with the 468 and wanted to add some more units. I plan to trigger that one with some cheap Yongnuo flash triggers. TL;DR: Get some YN-560III or YN-560IV flashes and a YN-560-TX, if you're sure Yongnuo's what you want. You don't need to mod; just avoid the RF-603 (Mark I) triggers
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The YongNuo flash (and the Nikon SB-800) features a pop-out bounce card at the top of the flash as well. I can't say I've ever found the little card useful in my photography. But I'm sure it has a use for others, otherwise they wouldn't include it. Head angle & Rotation The YN460-II does not feature a zoom head. I can't find the angle of coverage in the manual, but it looks like it is designed to cover a 35mm lens on a full frame camera. A diffusion panel pops out of the top of the flash and can be used to increase coverage to 18mm. The YN460 and YN560 ranges of speedlights were cheap enough that if one fell off a cliff, drowned in a river, or met some other untimely demise, it wasn’t a big deal. Yongnuo literally opened the door for making cheap flashes popular. Eventually they even brought out fully compatible replacements for Canon and Nikon’s flagship strobes, at less than a third of the price. Yongnuo lagging behind
The good thing about the YN460-II is that it offers two optical slave modes. The first is designed to work with manual flash. The second mode is designed to work with cameras that fire a pre-flash before the main flash, e.g. any compact camera, DSLR flash in TTL mode. This means that the YN460-II can be used with a basic compact camera that has no flash control. Nice!High speed recycling system – The recycling time for full output takes just 3 seconds; you can get high speed current-return experience even without brand new batteries, which will take only 4-5 seconds. A major difference between the two flashes is that the EL-1 has a built-in fan that enables longer operation. Without a built-in fan, the EL-5 can't quite match the EL-1's continuous flash spec of 335 flashes. However, the EL-5 promises approximately 95 consecutive full-power flashes. If you're shooting at lower power, the EL-5 can emit up to 350 flashes on a single charge. YN-600EX-RT. This is a clone of the Canon 600EX-RT and has a built-in RT radio receiver that plays nice with Canon's RT gear (600EX-RT, ST-E3-RT) and Yongnuo's YN-E3-RT. However, it can only be an RF master (not an optical eTTL one; although it can be a CLS/wireless eTTL optical slave), and does not have an external sensor, or the ability to display colors based on mode. It is not an exact clone of the 600EX-RT. Thank you everyone. I'm new to the photography world and will probably look for something like a Yongnuo or used Canon Speedlite. I don't think I want to spend a lot on a flash right now because I'm not sure how much I'm going to use it. Yongnuo YN500EX Supports High-Speed Synchronization– With high-speed sync (FP flash), the YN500EX can synchronize at all shutter speeds. The maximum shutter sync speed is up to 1/8000
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