CE Compass Yongnuo Professional YN-568EX Wireless TTL Flash Speedlite Speedlight for Nikon D700 D3 D3s D3x D2x D300 D300S D7000 D90 D80 D70 D70S D60 D3000 D3100

I love these so much, I have 4 of them (three main, one back-up).I'll slap a YN-622N on each of them & put a YN-622N-TX on my camera hotshoe, and the result is complete control over the power of my three flashes from my camera. No more running over to each flash to manually change the power setting.... brilliant! I just wish it had more than 3 groups.HSS is a nice feature but I haven't explored it much. I use the Flashpoint Rovelight RL-600 if I'm on a paid shoot and want to battle the sun at wider apertures, but I have tested HSS with these (the YN-568EX) indoors and it does indeed work as long as you have a camera and trigger that supports HSS.Easy enough to learn the controls by playing with it for a few minutes. I think it was easier to figure out than my SB-600 & SB-800. I've only used these off-camera, so I can't say how they function on a camera's hotshoe. i-TTL works pretty flawlessly off-camera in the few times I've used it.Built solid for the price. Skip the name brand flashes and get three of these bad boys for the price of one Nikon/Canon equivalent. Pair them with the YN-622 and YN-622-TX if you want a great intermediate hotshoe studio.Highly recommend.Only complaint I have so far, and it's minor, is that it's easy to sometimes hit the Mode button & put the flash in Manual, which disables the remote power control from the YN-622N-TX (the flash itself has to be in i-TTL). I've done that on several shoots and it's taken me a few minutes to troubleshoot why I couldn't remotely change power.... but once again, very minor complaint. LCD screen very easy to read, nice large letters and numbers.

High Speed Sync! Need I say more?...and at a decent price for a budget speedlite. However, it could use more power.Sure you could use it at 1/8000 shutter speed, but it is so weak.Aside from that, it puts out good power.It has an on/off button that you have to press and hold. I would have preferred a switch as it feels like it takes forever to turn on.When you are in a hurry, you press/hold and let go when hear it turn on... but NOPE, you find that you didn't press/hold long enough and it turns off. It is an odd mechanism that you have to witness for yourself how awkward the power-on is.I have a Neewar 750II which is actually cheaper and I find the exposure on that is more consistent exposure than this Yongnuo speedlite. I think that is more of a bonus point for the Neewar than a negative for the Yongnuo, because the Yongnuo's output is good. Also, the Neewar does not have High Speed Sync.AF assist: the pattern is a little off center, BUT IT WORKS. That said, as long as it works, I actually like that it is off center and not tagging my subject in the eyeball with that super bright red laser pattern.This speedlite is the one I keep in my bag and I definitely recommend it for the price and feature set.

Seriously, for the price, this is a great flash. I replaced my SB-600 after I learned the lesson that leaving batteries in your flash can cause them to leak and fry the electronics. Like my Grandpa always says, "Tuition to the School of Life isn't cheap." But lucky for me, being able to buy a TTL-compatible flash for $125 was the equivalent to a hefty scholarship and eased the pain of said tuition payment. I'm new to flash photography, so having TTL was a big plus for me. So far, in a few quick test sessions, I'm very happy with the performance. I'm not sure how long the batteries will last but I am ordering rechargeable ones so that won't really be a concern for me.The only thing I noticed (and this could entirely be operator error) is that when I put the flash in slave mode and use the built in flash on my camera as the command to trigger the 568EX, I am unable to adjust the flash exposure compensation on the flash itself -- only through the camera. I had backed the compensation way down on my camera so that the flash wouldn't affect the lighting on my scene but just be enough to trigger the 568EX, but then I realized the 558EX was severely underpowered and not doing much to affect the scene. I tried to increase the flash power (like I did when it was mounted on the hotshoe of my camera) but it didn't allow me to. So I cranked up the compensation on my camera again and it seemed to work fine. This is nice I guess for when I want to make changes on the fly and can remotely change the speed-light without going over to it and changing it, but if I have more than one set up in a group and I want to alter the power of one versus the power of the other and can't do that, then that would be a bummer. I guess it depends on what your needs are as to whether this is a good feature or a bad feature.Overall though, I'm super stoked to have this and will most likely purchase a couple more for indoor events.