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Would you pay extra for built-in radio transmitter?

Started Aug 11, 2019 | Polls thread
Ed Rizk Veteran Member • Posts: 3,898
Re: Would you pay extra for built-in radio transmitter?
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N-VB wrote:

Nope!

The only peoples I saw using native brand flashes are tourists, with their 1dxII, D850, etc , trying to illuminate Louvre's Pyramid or the Eiffel tower from 100meters away (quite fun and painful to watch).

Last 3-4 years, many cheaper and much better options are available. I don't want to lose those in profit of native flashes (see 2000D, 3000D, 4000D lost flash communication pin)

I'd rather smash my toes on the cofee table than going in the camera menu to adjust my flahes, it'll be less painful.

Interesting.

I just said no, because I rarely use flash.   Occasionally I will use it for a portrait, but the last time I had a real client for portraits, not my specialty, it was a female singing group, and the leader, who knew a lot about light and photography, insisted that I not use flash.

I bought the 580EX2 with my 60D in 2011.   I just wanted the most powerful flash I could get for pictures of people in low light.   Even with that old crop camera, I was impressed with what I could get without flash at all.   Had I bought the camera first, I might not have bought a flash at all.

I read the manual and tried most things, as is my habit (unmanly, I know).   I was amazed at how the camera could balance off camera flash, the built in flash, and the ambient exposure.   You can then exposure compensate each for any added effect you want.  That enabled me to take portraits with interesting lighting without actually knowing anything about flash photography.

Are the third party flash systems as smart, or do you just understand flash well enough that you don't care if they are smart or not?

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