I've just been having a play around with my new Yongnuo YN560-III and I have to say to the Chinese, you've done a pretty damn good job here for a £60 flash!
I had a much older Yongnuo flash, and it's good to see what improvements have gone into this one. There are some good features including built in wireless that you can use with a Yongnuo radio trigger and slave mode. The flash also has a zoom up to 105mm.
I have to say that the build quality is great and it comes with a nice case. It feels like it is going to last a long time.
So far I have tested it out on and off camera and the slave mode works great even at distance.
The manual is the best I've seen out of all the previous Chinese items, this one has the best translation. Not 100% but pretty good.
The only slight bit of criticism I can make is that for some reason I had some issues getting it to work for the first time, I tried it with rechargeables to start with and it didn't turn on, then I tried with normal batteries and it was OK, after this the rechargeables worked fine and it hasn't failed since.
Overall very pleased with the flash.
I had a much older Yongnuo flash, and it's good to see what improvements have gone into this one. There are some good features including built in wireless that you can use with a Yongnuo radio trigger and slave mode. The flash also has a zoom up to 105mm.
I have to say that the build quality is great and it comes with a nice case. It feels like it is going to last a long time.
So far I have tested it out on and off camera and the slave mode works great even at distance.
The manual is the best I've seen out of all the previous Chinese items, this one has the best translation. Not 100% but pretty good.
The only slight bit of criticism I can make is that for some reason I had some issues getting it to work for the first time, I tried it with rechargeables to start with and it didn't turn on, then I tried with normal batteries and it was OK, after this the rechargeables worked fine and it hasn't failed since.
Overall very pleased with the flash.