YongNuo YN-560 III Flashgun, Black

This is a very good manual flash gun at a very reasonable price. I used four of the original YN-560 flashes to photograph a year in the life of a family of badgers a couple of years ago. This entailed using these flashes at night in all weathers including rain and snow. On warm or moderately cool nights I would sit out but on cold winter nights I often sheltered in the warm leaving the camera and flashes out in the freezing cold, using radio triggers to take shots when the badgers appeared. They held up admirably and I would have been pleased and still considered them good value if one or even two had failed during that time, but they didn't. I still have them all and they are still all fully functional. I didn't invest in the mk II since the originals are still functional, but I bought a couple of the new mk III versions because there are some new features that make the purchase worthwhile. The new model has a radio receiver built in where the previous models needed a separate receiver to be attached for remote radio triggering. This makes them easier to set up and easier to keep dry in wet weather. The newer models also have an LCD vs The arrays of LEDs on the original (lit up like a xmas tree). The power saving and sleep modes are also improved with several options configurable via the new UI using the LCD.

If you're looking into good quality photography on budget and don't have thousands to spend, read on!I bought one of these on 12/10/2014 and have been using it almost daily / weekly since and its absolutely fantastic. I have used it both on my Canon 1100D and Canon 6D, along with Yong Nuo RF-603 C1 wireless triggers ( see http://www.amazon.co.uk/Yongnuo-RF-603-wireless-trigger-Transceiver/dp/B00ARAM3PS/ref=cm_cr-mr-title ). It works great as a primary flash and also as a slave and triggers perfectly when used on infrared. A shutter speed of 1/125 is about as fast as it can handle without having to worry about cutting off the light - any faster and you will need to start checking for white bars of light running across your photo. I have found that a shutter speed of 1/80 is pretty sweet.As with pretty much all battery operated flash guns, its a good idea to buy a selection of rechargeables, as they do tend to eat through them - this one is no different, but you can easily get a good few hours of constant use from one full charge (and that's from using it at the more powerful settings)I've been so impressed with Yong Nuo 560 speedlights that this is the second one that I have bought and will no doubt be buying more as needs demand. One great benefit of this mk 3 is that it automatically goes into standby mode if not used for a period of time which saves a lot of battery life!It's worth noting that this is a manual flash and as such you will have to manually set the desired power settings - This is fine if you're working in constant conditions, such as shooting in one location, a studio, living room, garage etc; where the light settings are not likely to change. It's a little more tricky if you are moving around to different locations and lighting conditions (think wedding photography, constantly moving from location to location and working on the fly). You will need to spend more (sometimes a lot more) to find a speedlight that will work automatically with your camera's settings for this.As for flash modifiers, I highly recommend a Universal Lambancy Flash Diffuser (aka Lightsphere clone - see http://www.amazon.co.uk/Universal-Cloudy-Lambency-Diffuser-Flashes/dp/B008Y36FOU/ref=sr_1_2?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1425220800&sr=1-2&keywords=WJR.Accessories+UK ) and a Portable Mini Flash Softbox ( aka Lastolite Ezybox Speed-lite clone - see http://www.amazon.co.uk/Professional-Portable-Diffuser-Flashgun-Speedlite/dp/B00MPGZ0SY/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top ).

Absolutely great! So good I bought another after I got it. I like the simplicity and features. It has a strobe which is really interesting but don't know if I will use yet. Its a powerful flash and it will be useful for anybody needing either a main or supplementary speedlight. The only downside for beginners is the lack of ttl but dont let that stop you. Go out and learn how to flash manually. It makes ou more creative and learn more about what your kit should be doing. The included case with pocket for the plastic base is a nice idea too.Downsides:- I don't know if it is normal but the charging light is green while the ready light is red. Is that normal or is somebody colour blind? (I hope it's not me)- The flash head is larger than my metz and although it isnot massive, it fills a little bigger if not heavy.- The flash is supposed to trigger wirelessly. I was hoping it would work with any of my current triggers but it didnt. I have ordered the rf603s but would be happier if Yongnuo hurried up and released their fancier trigger to control the flashes from camera. Being able to control these flashes remotely will really make them worth every penny.At the price I can get several of these to a single metz or canon and if you just want the flash to light a background or hair then why pay more?

First of all let me thank Amazon yet again for their excellent service. I have been using Amazon for several years now and have never had a problem. I always try to find products that are “fulfilled by Amazon” if possible, although I also have never had any problems with purchases by “other suppliers” through Amazon.I have a Sony Alpha SLT-A58 Camera and it has been difficult finding information with regards to flash equipment compatibility without having to pay top prices for Sony-Own-Brand equipment. I have read many reviews for flash guns and wireless triggers of various manufacturers.I came across these YongNuo YN-560 III flashguns and decided to try them out.I purchased 2 of them and they worked perfectly without the need for any hot-shoe adapter!!! They are very powerful with a Guide No. of 58 for a focal length of 105mm. The output has 8 levels so intensity is easily reduced. They also have a built-in Wireless Receiver that is compatible with their RF-603 or RF-602 wireless transceivers. They don’t support TTL exposure so you have to use manual exposures.I wasn’t sure about the transceivers as they are supplied for Canon and Nikon cameras and have hot-shoes and cables unique to these cameras. I decided to try them out as they are not expensive. I purchased RF-603II C3 and RF603II N3, and guess what? They all worked with my camera!!! (again without any hot-shoe adapter or cable). (You set the YN-560 flashgun to Rx Slave mode) You actually only need 1 trigger as the YN-560 flashguns have their own built-in receivers. Also, these triggers (transceivers) are both Transmitters and Receivers, so can be used with other makes of flashgun. I have tested them over a range of 10metres and they worked faultlessly. Admittedly I can’t use them to fire the shutter of my camera as they are intended for Canon/Nikon cameras.I don’t see why these flashguns and wireless transceivers can’t work on other cameras. (as long you don’t need TTL or shutter operation)The build quality of this equipment is unbelievably top quality for the price.I hope this review helps a lot of people as I spent many hours researching and reading reviews. I now intend to purchase at least 2 more flashguns to enable me to setup a lighting studio without having to trip over cables!

This is a manual mode only flash that has built in 2.4Ghz remote control.I use this with my Canon 5D mk3 and a set of Yongnuo YN RF-603 C3 triggers. No trigger is needed for the flash end, just your camera if it does not already have it.I can now shoot with wireless flash at up to 1/160 shutter speed.This unit feels a little cheaper than my Canon 430 EX II but not a million miles away. It is much brighter than the 430, as it should be.The big issue of course is price. The Canon 600EX-RT flash is £430. This thing is not just cheaper, but in a different world price-wise. Even is this proves less reliable and needs replaced every year or so, it would still be worth it. I can buy almost NINE of these for the cost of the Canon.Okay so it does not have ETTL, but that is of limited use when bounce flashing or shooting through an umbrella etc anyway. It is also a little tricky to get the diffuser panel out.Generally I am a fan of paying extra for quality and would not normally even consider a typically "cheap" copy of anything.Canon's ridiculous pricing though means I have, and I am glad I have. I bought this and the pair of triggers mentioned for about seventy-five quid. Used with my existing Canon 430EX II flash and I have twin wireless flash.To do this with an all canon setup such as two 600EX-RT and a transmitter from Canon would be about one thousand pounds.I will update the review in time if anything changes, so far though I am very happy.

I had read some of the other reviews by photographers who had purchased this Chinese brand and manufactured Speedlite, for the price paid, I had my reservations, (Whilst I have not had time to test the unit yet), my initial reaction is one of extreme Surprise, I was expecting a broken white box, i was wrong, the Yongnuo YN 560 III Wireless 2.4, is very nicely packaged in its own branded box, a rather pleasant Gold Effect with black lyrics, at first glance it looks professional, having taken the unit out of the well packaged box, the unit has a fairly nice build quality, to be honest, it looks the same as a Canon Speedlite, and the swivel head and flash turn mechanism to me almost seems better than Canon, has a soft feel to it, it comes with a nice case, similar to Canon, branded with yongnuo on the front, a flash stand, and a good set of instructions, having read those, the Chinese are clearly trying to up their game, by having them translated somewhat better than in the past, I had no problems understand what they were trying to convey, it seems to me, China is trying to do better with its own branded products, instead of making them for other western companies.The buttons on the back of the unit are as shown in the photo, they look clearly presented, and a good size LCD screen, so far so good, as i said I have not had time to test it yet, but the unit has the look of a larger Canon 600 EX RT, and is designed by the instructions I have read to do exactly the same job, but for £54.00 and not £470.00 thats a big difference if your on a budget, I'm not sure if its TTL I don't believe it is, but it doesn't seem to take long to alter the power settings on the rear of this unit, and in any event I am someone who likes to set my own power flash settings and zoom settings, you will need an R202 or R203 wireless transmiter for your camera from Yongnuo, but these are fairly easy to pick up here at Amazon and reasonably priced, if it goes well I am going to buy another 2 of them, thats only £162.00 for 3....think about it, and consider this unit for your needs, delivery was speedy, I ordered on Wednesday afternoon, on Thursday it was delivered. best of luck.

I was skeptical at first about buying such a cheap flash however upon arrival my doubts were unfounded. The flash is well built and sturdy and fits my D3100 like a glove. The flash on full power is very powerful which is great for outside but can be lowered to 1/128 of full power. There is no ttl on this flash it's manual only but it does come with in built transeivers for use with the relevant yongnuo triggers. Also included is a foot so you can position it off camera more easily and a nice case to carry it all in.My personal opinion is that you should learn manual flash before going down the automatic iTTl route but not only that with 1 nikon sb700 costing nearly £250 for the same price you could get two of these a set of wireless triggers and some umbrellas and have a nice little set up and have money left over. This is an excellent product for the price and would highly recommend.

I bought this flashgun with a pair of YongHup RF 603N wireless triggers. Its a well built unit, has a feel of quality about it and the backlit menu is excellent. However the manual leaves abit to be desired, so go online and see videos about setting it up.The gun fired on the flash, fired on its slave modes using the on camera popup flash and with a another flash triggering it. It also fired if you put a wireless trigger on the camera and one on the flash gun. BUT I could not get it to pair using its built in reciever with either of the triggers. I thought the gun was faulty and decided to send it back.* After ordering another one of these from a different supplier, and another pair of wireless triggers, it seems the original triggers I had bought were defective and not the flash gun

C'est très simple : fonctionne aussi bien que mon ancien Nikon SB910 qui était 8 fois plus cher !!! Même taille, même qualité de fabrication, même puissance (NG58). Evidemment, il n'est pas TTL. Mais en studio, où tout se contrôle aux petits oignons et à la patte du photographe, ce n'est pas gênant. Il manquerait cependant quelques accessoires comme un diffuseur ou des gélatines. Mais pour le prix, franchement, on s'en moque un peu. Il est déjà fourni avec un support de table et une housse qui n'est pas cheap du tout.Je l'utilise et contrôle à distance par le Yongnuo YN560-TX fixé sur la griffe de mon fuji x-e2.Son principal défaut : à ce prix là, çà démange d'en acheter tout un stock pour multiplier les sources d'éclairage, d'autant plus qu'il intègre déjà un récepteur pour mon Yongnuo YN560-TX. Tous ces flashes ne nécessiteraient donc aucun équipement supplémentaire pour être pilotés à distance par mon seul transmetteur fixé sur l'appareil photo. Tout devient si simple, une vraie aubaine !Un seul regret : ne pas avoir connu l'existence de Yongnuo plus tôt.

The Sony flash for my camera retails new at nearly half a grand - that's ridiculous. I ended up getting a used HVL-58AM afterward too, but after losing many auctions for one (and refusing to pay blood money for a new one), thought I'd try the YN 560 as an interim flash. It really is spectacular, and even though I now have both, it still gets used a LOT. The levels of adjustment all the way down to 1/128, the many slave modes, and the multi setting make it very hard to give up, so I'll just keep it. For Sony it does need the Minolta to Standard Hot Shoe adapter, but I already had that, and nobody makes a 602 or 603 trigger compatible with Sony yet, so there is some degree of McGuyvering needed, but the results are well worth the effort.I now use it as a back/box/fill light or hair light a lot, and the flexibility of it is superb. The only downside in my mind is the lack of HSS, but my main light will sync at up to 1/8000 so it isn't the end of the world. It syncs fine up to 1/250, so for anything in studio it's fine, and for outdoor daylight I use the Sony. I only use the big strobes off camera, as either of them are just unwieldly on top of the camera (and the YN on top of the adapter to boot), but the built in acts as a controller and is capable of groups with the right triggers, so it works out quite well. TTL obviously won't function on a Sony camera, but I don't use it anyway, but I'm sure it could come in handy for a Canikon inclined person.The buttons/menus are a little cryptic, but google is your friend, and in a day's time you can know it inside out, and a couple more days you can make it play nicely with your dedicated units. For manual off camera use, it is every bit as good as the Sony, and at less than 20% of the new price, which make it a no-brainer. For my purposes, it's like having another 58, but for pennies on the dollar, especially as you can only have one act as controller anyway, and the two combined are more than capable of some pretty elaborate lighting.For under a c-note, you can have a great flash AND some eneloops, and really turn your creative options up a notch - or ten. Buy it - at the price, it would be silly not to.4/2014 Have never updated a review, but had to this time. On location last month, I had this flash on a monopod as a slave and bumped it against the ceiling. The attachment on the bracket I was using let go and the flash fell almost 10 feet to a ceramic tile floor. The batteries shot out and flew well over 20 feet, the flash itself bounce a good 2 feet high and I was absolutely sure it was destroyed. I gathered the batteries back up, put them in and turned it on and it hasn't missed a lick since. Less than 2 weeks later, I had it on a light stand, well over 7 feet up and one of the models lost their balance, grabbed for the stand to catch herself and took it tumbling down the seawall with her, mangling the stand and sending the flash crashing onto and down between the big boulders. She was battered, the stand was totaled, but once I dug the flash out and put new batteries in (the ones in it were gone and we never found where they flew), it STILL works perfectly, gouges in the side and all. I have several $500 speedlights and NONE of them work any better (obviously in manual) than this unit, and while I don't want to test it, I suspect NONE of them would have survived either, much less both of these disasters. Built in radio receiver, highly variable power, dependable slave modes, multi mode .... this will do it all if you know what YOU are doing.Every poor review due to this flash not working in full auto mode make me want to scream. Anyone with even an ounce of ability would never even CONSIDER 'automatic' flash anyway. Cheap Chinese junk? B, please! It's a tank and outperforms all my 'name brand' flashes by a huge margin, dollar for dollar. I'll buy a bag full of YN's before I ever spend another penny on an overpriced 'name brand' speedlight again.

Possedevo già due Yongnuo 560 markII, a novembre 2014 ho fatto l'upgrade al markIII. Ne ho acquistati 3 da Amazon per 200€ tondi.Li ho cambiati per sfruttare il ricevitore wireless integrato ed usarli in combo con il YN560TX preso su ebay per 35€.Questi flash hanno un rapporto qualità/funzionalità incredibile. Il corpo è un po' plasticoso ma tutto sommato ben fatto. L'elettronica è molto elaborata e completa ma allo stesso tempo intuitiva.Vorrei precisare, visto che viene chiesto spesso, che questo flash è COMPLETAMENTE MANUALE quindi bisogna dosare manualmente la potenza del lampo ma è compatibile con QUALSIASI FOTOCAMERA dotata di slitta hot-shoe.Non mi dilungo sulle caratteristiche che tanto è facile reperire, spendo qualche parola per elogiare il sistema wireless:Questo flash può essere "triggato" direttamente (senza altri accessori) dallo Yongnuo RF-602 e RF-603 ma da il meglio se usato con lo Yongnuo 560TX poiché è possibile gestire a distanza la potenza del lampo di 6 gruppi di flash. Non sono necessari altri accessori da collegare ai flash o alla macchina quindi meno batterie necessarie e tutte il formato AA (il TX usa due AA).Al momento è disponibile anche lo YN560 markIV che a differenza del III integra anche il TX.Gli unici difetti di questo sistema sono la mancanza del TLL (come detto sono dei flash manuali) e dell'HSS che ne consentirebbe l'utilizzo all'aperto. Per il resto li considero perfetti per l'utilizzo in studio (abbinati al 560TX).Piccola segnalazioneNel mese di aprile 2015 uno dei flash si è guastato, scattava solo a piena potenza. Ho contattato Amazon che l'ha sostituito con uno nuovo senza se e senza ma. In due giorni lavorativi hanno ritirato quello guasto e consegnato il nuovo. Come sempre servizio clienti impeccabile.

Chegou bem rápido, veio tudo certo , funciona perfeitamente e sem nenhum arranhão ou defeito.Super indico.

Amazing flash for a low price! I could get four of these (if not more!) for the price of one Canon flash... and it works! It just works, it does what it says it'll do. I'd need some Eneloop batteries or a power pack to make it work at its fullest, but it does the job perfectly even with the cheap batteries I've got right now. So far the flash did its job every single time even at higher powers.It beeps when it's done charging (you can deactivate it if it annoys you), which is awesome for me, since I work with the flash off-cam most of the time, often at an angle at which I can't see the little light that tells you if it's done charging or not. Then again, I haven't even needed to use it at full power considering how powerful it is, so I haven't had trouble with the recharging time.Since I never ever use TTL, this flash was perfect for me (I hate my flash making decisions in my place). It's easy to use, easy to understand, and you can jump right into using it even without reading the manual (which is written in quite poor English, but mine is no better because my first language is French and I've only learned English quite late in school, so I probably didn't notice it as much as people who have spoken English their entire life). There are a few functions that are hidden, but they're the customization ones such as the energy-saving time.The head can zoom, which is really nice to control its angle. Since I use it off-camera most of the time, it's only really useful to spread the light or make it a bit more focused on one spot instead.I haven't had the chance to use the Yongnuo triggers with it to test its radio capabilities, but I do plan on getting them when I'll have money to do so.Why you would WANT to buy this flash:1) Inexpensive2) Easy to use3) Can beep4) Has radio receiver inside it, though I haven't tried it yet5) Head zooms6) Fully manual (really helps understanding light when you start)7) Looks pretty damn solid for such an inexpensive flashWhy you would NOT want to buy this flash1) Fully manual (depends on what you shoot, I guess)2) Hidden custom functions3) Might be a bit tough to understand for beginners (then again, there are probably YouTube tutorials, so that's not really a reason)4) Uh... poor English in the manual? If you're a grammar nazi, it'll be tough on your eyes.So there you go, here's my review, and I plan on updating it the day I'll get Yongnuo triggers!