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Customer Review
Reviewed in Canada on September 11, 2019
You're good to use this indoors in small spaces like anywhere in your house. It's powerful enough for a decent size family and extended family gathering inside a small hall with plenty of spaces to bounce. But you'll quickly realise how weak it is when you're used to a full size flash.
I find TTL is a bit strange. It always under exposes flash. 100% all the time it's always deciding very little fill flash. I permanently leave flash exp. Comp. to +1.7. See picture between TTL all auto which is really under exposes..... And I apply +1.7 flash compensation to get fairly decent image balance with flash fill.
The white balance that Sony gives on flash wb is always reallllly yellow with this flash. Not sure why.?
I'm coming from canon system so I'm wondering if this is a third party flash issue....So I've been using just awb .... Better off custom wb .
It's a really basic camera flash. Manual, ttl, HS and capable of remote shooting as master or slave. No frills. I don't own any other Sony strobes yet to play with off camera flash but note that godox has a fully wireless system that others on blogs have praised .
The bounce flash swivel head is outstanding and gives you a lot of versatility in such a small form factor.
For such a good price and great performance there is no reason to go with sony compact flashes.
This is a really small form factor flash. It's really a perfect size for a small mirrorless body. I think it's a great compromise size for travel. I use mine on a Sony a7-3. As you might expect, with the smalll size , comes less power. That's obvious by the GN rating.
You're good to use this indoors in small spaces like anywhere in your house. It's powerful enough for a decent size family and extended family gathering inside a small hall with plenty of spaces to bounce. But you'll quickly realise how weak it is when you're used to a full size flash.
I find TTL is a bit strange. It always under exposes flash. 100% all the time it's always deciding very little fill flash. I permanently leave flash exp. Comp. to +1.7. See picture between TTL all auto which is really under exposes..... And I apply +1.7 flash compensation to get fairly decent image balance with flash fill.
The white balance that Sony gives on flash wb is always reallllly yellow with this flash. Not sure why.?
I'm coming from canon system so I'm wondering if this is a third party flash issue....So I've been using just awb .... Better off custom wb .
It's a really basic camera flash. Manual, ttl, HS and capable of remote shooting as master or slave. No frills. I don't own any other Sony strobes yet to play with off camera flash but note that godox has a fully wireless system that others on blogs have praised .
The bounce flash swivel head is outstanding and gives you a lot of versatility in such a small form factor.
For such a good price and great performance there is no reason to go with sony compact flashes.
You're good to use this indoors in small spaces like anywhere in your house. It's powerful enough for a decent size family and extended family gathering inside a small hall with plenty of spaces to bounce. But you'll quickly realise how weak it is when you're used to a full size flash.
I find TTL is a bit strange. It always under exposes flash. 100% all the time it's always deciding very little fill flash. I permanently leave flash exp. Comp. to +1.7. See picture between TTL all auto which is really under exposes..... And I apply +1.7 flash compensation to get fairly decent image balance with flash fill.
The white balance that Sony gives on flash wb is always reallllly yellow with this flash. Not sure why.?
I'm coming from canon system so I'm wondering if this is a third party flash issue....So I've been using just awb .... Better off custom wb .
It's a really basic camera flash. Manual, ttl, HS and capable of remote shooting as master or slave. No frills. I don't own any other Sony strobes yet to play with off camera flash but note that godox has a fully wireless system that others on blogs have praised .
The bounce flash swivel head is outstanding and gives you a lot of versatility in such a small form factor.
For such a good price and great performance there is no reason to go with sony compact flashes.
Great value for Sony mirrorless, perfect size for travel
Reviewed in Canada on September 11, 2019
This is a really small form factor flash. It's really a perfect size for a small mirrorless body. I think it's a great compromise size for travel. I use mine on a Sony a7-3. As you might expect, with the smalll size , comes less power. That's obvious by the GN rating.Reviewed in Canada on September 11, 2019
You're good to use this indoors in small spaces like anywhere in your house. It's powerful enough for a decent size family and extended family gathering inside a small hall with plenty of spaces to bounce. But you'll quickly realise how weak it is when you're used to a full size flash.
I find TTL is a bit strange. It always under exposes flash. 100% all the time it's always deciding very little fill flash. I permanently leave flash exp. Comp. to +1.7. See picture between TTL all auto which is really under exposes..... And I apply +1.7 flash compensation to get fairly decent image balance with flash fill.
The white balance that Sony gives on flash wb is always reallllly yellow with this flash. Not sure why.?
I'm coming from canon system so I'm wondering if this is a third party flash issue....So I've been using just awb .... Better off custom wb .
It's a really basic camera flash. Manual, ttl, HS and capable of remote shooting as master or slave. No frills. I don't own any other Sony strobes yet to play with off camera flash but note that godox has a fully wireless system that others on blogs have praised .
The bounce flash swivel head is outstanding and gives you a lot of versatility in such a small form factor.
For such a good price and great performance there is no reason to go with sony compact flashes.
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