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(More customer reviews)Yes, radio flash with strobes is better, but this item acts similarly to a radio-controlled studio, but with much more portability! No need for wireless transmitters and receivers, as the Canon Speedlites you surely own already accept signals from this thing!
If you need portability with your portraits, this item is for you, since lugging around Speedlights and lightweight stands is easier than heavier strobes with bulkier stands. This makes location shooting much easier.
If you're on a budget, this item is for you, since you won't need to invest in additional strobes and trancievers and power packs. Just combine this with any Speedlites you already own.
If you want a quick and easy backup to your expensive, heavy strobe setup, this is for you, as you're likely to have your Speedlites in your camera bag anyway, and this item takes up about as much room as a Sto-Fen diffuser. You can't go wrong with such a small item enabiling near-full studio capability.
There are only two faults with this item:
-Firstly, you need to be line-of-sight with your Speedlites. Indoors, the Speedlites can be pointed in a relatively correct direction and work. However, outdoors the line-of-sight is critical, with a turn of a few degrees off line causing transmission to fail.
-Speedlites are NOT strobes, and can never match the light output of strobes. You lose continuous modeling light capability and a couple hundred watt seconds of light when you use Speedlites instead of strobes. Don't expect to light massive groups of people or large subjects like trucks with a Speedlite setup.
One oddball curiosity with this item is that if you shoot pets and young children, they get easy distracted by the red blinking panels of the Speedlites in slave mode. I'm sure slave mode users know this. Nothing major, just something to keep in mind as their heads will tend to point toward your light stands during shoots.
UPDATE: Have owned this little device for a while now, and the front red panel broke off about six months into owning it. Still working fine, a little trooper of a device. You can certainly use this device to enable portrait shooting in churches and/or for weddings, as I have used it for that. I've used 430s and 580s on stands through white umbrellas, and the portraits came out fantastic. Things go much easier if you put the flashes into manual mode, so some learning of manual exposure is certainly needed.
Yes: Great for weddings! Largest group of people in a church I've lit with this device's help is 63, which took three speedlites.
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The Canon Speedlite Transmitter ST-E2 is compatible with Type A EOScameras (E-TTL, auto flash) and Type B EOS cameras (manual flash). The ST-E2 isdesigned to control slaved Canon 550 EX flashes, enabling simultaneous flash usein professional settings. The wireless controller has a flash ratio control,allowing for several different A:B ratios, 1:8 to 8:1 in half-step increments,as well as slave confirmation via a test transmission button, which sets offslave A, followed by slave B, at 1/64 output.
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