I need an off brand, off camera flash I can fire wireless for my T3

Photos by MJ wrote:

I've gone with the Yongnuo YN568 EX II and the YN622C trigger. The 568 acts as a master flash since my T3 cant fire flashes remotely by itself. I felt bad not going with the 430 EX II - just cant afford it.

Unlike the immature Pentax flash system, Canon flash system is mature, proven, and ease to used, and very reliable.

I had gone cheap with 3rd party flash and 3rd party wireless, and I learned the hard way their more problematic, less reliable, and just not worth the hassle if you shooting on the job.

For example the cheap $30 PT-04 wireless Trigger/Receiver is an good example. In addition to the 4xAA for a single flash, you also need to bring alone a freshly charge 2xAAA for trigger and 2xAAA for each receiver. A two flash setup can takes up to 8xAA, 6xAAA, the more batteries, the more hassels, and more point of failures. One battery failure can result in inefficient out of balance flash output. Then you have to manually adjust each flash to the power output you desires in different ratio. Hopefully, you can find your flash balance before you client went out of patient.

Going with genuine Canon Flash is not just easier, but a time saver. Any mid-level Canon DSLR have wireless commander build in (sorry, not your cheap T3). To do wireless flash, I just add any old slave-capable Canon Flash. That it! Just that easy. I can control up 3 groups of slave-enabled flashes, controlling power from 8:1 to 1:8 in 1/2 stop increments......all from my camera LCD screen without evertweaking each flash power manually. I retained TTL and HSS.  Best of all, I don't need to buy additional battery for the transmitter/receiver.  All I need is the batteries for my flashes.

here is a Canon Flash system tutorial worth watching

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5YipS5IFnA

Canon T3 is cheap for a reason, there are numerous feature removed enough to be annoying and force you to upgrade sooner rather than later.  You get what you paid for.   Canon sort of punish you for that.