Yongnuo flash guns YN 460 for 450d Canon

[Martin911]

Hello , I was wondering if any of you out in digital photo land have any information about these cheap flash guns for sale on ebay for £25 - £35 . Are they any good or a waste of money? Your valued oppinions would be appreciated . I know you only get what you pay for. Thanks Martin911

[silversnapper1]

I bought a flashgun with a similar name to this earlier in the year (I cannot remember the make). It worked ok on camera but couldn't get a glimmer out of it when used off camera so I sent it back.

Steve.

[Footski]

I have the new Yongnuo 560 for my Nikon. It is very well made, powerful and very fast. Works great off camera too. Cheap they may be but Yongnuo do make some great gear for the money.

[HinFrance]

I use a Yongnuo 460 ll as a secondary flash as you can't get a PTTL version for Pentax (later, just realised you can't get a TTL version for any make). Can't fault it for the money. The 560 hadn't come out when I bought mine.

[greenwing]

Originally Posted by josemason58

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Do they sell spam too?

[silversnapper1]

My thoughts entirely. Typical spammer. Pick up a thread that is who knows how old and inserts links to sales.

[Cathus]

I've been reading through the Strobist website this week & he has recommended the 560 for off camera manual flash work, though some people on his site have had quality control issues with them.

They did recommend purchasing from a particular UK eBay seller who apparently quality checks each flashgun before it goes out (had Cotswold in the title).

I couldn't quickly locate the thread I saw but he does review the 460 here: http://strobist.blogspot.com/2009/03...-adoption.html

There is a Flickr discussion on it here: http://www.flickr.com/groups/strobis...7613840658452/

I was looking at the Yongnuo flashguns as a cheap addition to my kit, but having read through Strobist & a couple of other sites I ordered a couple of Lumopro 160s from Holland. (hoping to receive them this week)

[ap4a]

Bang, and the spam is gone.

[Martin911]

Thanks for all your replys and information, Kindest regards Martin

[dyvroeth]

Hats off to Mark Collinson in the Dec 2010 issue of PhotoPlus (page 20). Emboldened by his experience of the YN467, I bought one on eBay for £50. After one false start with delivery (the seller was brilliant and sorted it out), mine arrived after a month.

If anyone's interested here's my comparison with a Canon 580EX II Speedlite - note this is not a review of the YN467. What I found....

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Guide No 33 for the YN467, so less power - but I only want it as a secondary.

Looks like a Speedlite 430EX, but build quality not as good as a Canon Speedlite, but it's certainly acceptable. Couldn't determine an individual unit serial number, although there were indications of date of manufacture and quality inspection marks.

Battery cover was sound but fiddly. The battery compartment is OK, but the batteries tend to topple, until they're all inserted. There are clear markings about battery polarisation though, so I've only myself to blame if I get it wrong.

Hot shoe lock works like the Canon EZ series Speedlites, with a locking wheel ring, rather than the robust flick-and-click of the EX series.

Covers 24-85mm, rather than the Canon 24-105mm range, but doesn't support full frame cameras. The slide out, wide-angle diffuser extends this down to a nominal 18mm.

Flash head has no "press-to-release" button, before raise and lower can take place. Vertical angle from horizontal marks are in pressed plastic on the bodywork, as is the horizontal swivel angle. Bit trickier to read (more contrast with plastic used on Canon Speedlite), but they're there nonetheless.

Multi-function rotary dial on rear panel controls on-off and flash power (in certain modes).

Mode switch toggles between 4 settings: TTL, Manual, Slave 1 (need Master in Manual mode), Slave 2 (need Master in TTL mode). So far, I've only got the S1 mode to work, but I haven't fiddled with the Master's channels yet.

When in TTL mode, if your Canon camera supports eTTL, you can change mode via the in-camera menu.

Just like the Canon, it retains the irritating Red for go, Green for stop as a Flash charge indicator. So at least we're consistently confused.

Comes with a small, independent floor stand mount, a protective velvet-like soft pouch with draw strings and dual language English/Chinese, 11 page user manual.

Whilst the English translation of the Chinese manual isn't perfect a) it's pretty understandable and b) it's 10,000 times better than my Mandarin.

But for a £50 flash unit which (probably, when I can figure it all out) responds to Canon wireless commands, who's arguing ?