Matthias Lambert
Well after almost 1 year and only occasional use, it is kaput. I will be honest I had enjoyed the flash on each occasion up to this week. I used it on camera and with a 3m cord for simple off camera use usually battling bright Phoenix AZ sunshine for midday portraits. I have a big shoot coming up in a week, so I was fiddling with it trying to make sure I had my settings and familiarity with the speed light dialed in. Well after 5 shots it froze up. I swapped out fresh batteries and one good flash and then 2-3 flickers, nothing. So again I swapped another set of newly charged batteries, thinking maybe I had stale batteries. One pop and nothing else. Sometimes too good to be true is, at $50 this is a bargain but nothing should be disposable. I think I shot literally 150 images with this flash, my D500 has no flash so when I searched my EXIF data in my photo library for images using Flash and then took out any cell phone images there were under 200 images since Dec 16 last year using a flash. Maybe I got a dud of a unit, manufacturing variance? Maybe this is what is to be expected? This is simply my review of the flash unit I have and will be disassembling to see if it is something simple or more serious. I always carry it and the modifiers separately in a padded case, never dropped or handled poorly, even stored with no batteries to prevent accidental corrosion. Good luck, as I said while working it was a really convenient and inexpensive flash, and the tel feature was really accurate in metering for the scene. Update, Neewer support site also not responding and Service Ticket page on site for return auth is disabled.