QDC-900WA DIGITAL ZOOM FLASH CAN

QDC-900WA DIGITAL ZOOM FLASH CAN
by Quantaray

Our Price: $45.00
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Category: Digital Camera
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Manufacturer: Quantaray
Product features:

A very good quality flash
Comes with a diffuser
Works very well with my Canon 20D
Have used Canon 550 XT
No manual included in the package

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Digital camera Review: 150 dollar flash with 150 dollar performance
Summary: 3 Stars

I use the Quantary flash on my Rebel Xt. Overall, not bad for the money imo. It's worth it just for the options to be able to bounce a powerful flash and get better af assist for high ISO/flash free shooting (though it's cumbersome to have on the camera, make no mistake).

This is my first relatively sophisticated flash, so there's a possibility some of this may be user error, but there are a few glaring nits nonetheless.

As far as I can tell, despite the fact that the paltry fold out 1 page 'manual' says the flash is fully digital ttl compatible, the'e-ttl' setting for aperture mode doesn't work at all (the camera meters for a normal shutter speed as if there weren't a flash at all).

It works with Tv much better, except for daytime fill-flash, which I just don't know how it performs because I haven't done a lot. I shoot in Av primarily (in the day time), and as mentioned, I can't get that priority to work.

Overall, the shots I get with direct flash on shutter speed and manual priority don't look a whole lot better than the 'canned' flash does. But maybe there is no such thing as good direct flash.

But the bounce flash in shutter and manual priority seems to perform well.

Multi flash setting seems a fairly useless gimmick in my experiments thus far, but maybe I haven't learned this complicated type of flash shooting well enough to say.

I think I will buy a 580ex when I have the money. If this camera functions adequately as a slave (as the 'manual' wildly claims it will), I'd say it was more than worth price.

If not, like I said, the bounce capability, the power of the flash, and the useful af assist in low light no-flash shooting will make it worth the price...but just barely.

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