YONGNUO YN560 IV Wireless Flash Speedlite Master + Slave Flash + Built-in Trigger System for Canon Nikon Pentax Olympus Fujifilm Panasonic Digital Cameras

I really like these lights. Theyre simple to use and give off a lot of light. I bought 6 of them to use with my Canon 5D MKIII. They dont have ttl metering, so if thats your need, they wont work. But for my use, theyre great, and you cant beat the price. Theyre also very well built. Id highly recommend this product to anyone considering buying a flash. This is an update. 2-9-16 I have 6 of these units. 3 of them are stuck on full power. They have been that way for many months. The return through Amazon has expired. A google search showed many other users experiencing the same thing.

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I bought these in January 2015. Tested them, seems to work fine. Had no issues with it. I didnt really use it for a gig until April 2015. The one I thoroughly tested works well. The other two? Stuck at full power. The power setting wont change no matter what you set it to. Ive owned four of the 560 II for years. After drops and heavy use, I never had an issue. Yet 2 out of 3 560 IV doesnt work right on my first gig and it probably was defective in the first place. I cant return it to Amazon because its been 4 months and I am waiting to hear from them about the warranty. However, Ive contacted them before with another product and got no reply. I expect this warranty to be useless. Im kicking myself for buying three of these and selling my Canon 600ex-rt EDIT: Yep. Got a reply by Yongnuo basically telling me that I should take it up with the seller that my flashes are defective. Their 1-year warranty is basically worthless.

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Makes Odd Cracking Sound, Difficult to Turn On, Wont Work w/ 560TX, Unreliable as Transmitter I have quite a collection of Yongnuo products: two YN568EXII flashes, four YN560III flashes, YN560TX transmitter, two RF-603II units, and the MR-58 ring flash. They all have performed perfectly for the past 4+ years. I recently purchased the YN560IV so I could use on-camera flash while triggering the 560III units. The first one I received had issues staying on. It would just shut off after a couple seconds, even with fresh batteries. So, I sent it back to Amazon. I bought a replacement, but that one also had issues. 1. Turning it on is not the same as the 560III. Quick On mode doesnt work. If you release the on button too soon or hold the button a millisecond too long, it wont turn on. You have to hold the on button until all the data shows up on screen, otherwise it wont stay on. There is no difference between having Quick On on or off. The 560IIIs, no problem. I have them in Quick On mode, I hold the button until the panel lights up, and its ready to go. The 560IV? I have to hold for several seconds. 2. When I do get it to turn on, theres a popping sound a few seconds later, almost like the flash tube is firing but it never actually fires. Its very odd. 3. I have the 560IV linked to my 560IIIs. It will cause them to flash while its on camera, but not every time. Im figuring I get a 60% success rate, and its not like Im firing off 5 shots per second at 1/1 power. Ill have the 560IIIs at 1/8 and half the time theyll flash via the 560IV. 4. I cannot get the 560IV to work with the YN560TX transmitter. I have the channels, groups and everything identical to the 560III units, set to RX mode, and when I hit the pilot button on the 560TX the 560IV fires along with the 560IIIs, but once I click the shutter on my Canon 5D, the 560IV will not fire. The 560IIIs fire perfectly, but not the 560IV. VIDEO: I have included a video of the 560TX issue. You will notice all three flashes are in RX mode, same Group, same Channel, same Frquency. When I hit the pilot on the 560TX, all three flashes fire. The LED lights up blue first, to confirm communication with the 560TX, and then quickly turn red as they fire. Once I have the 560TX on my Canon 5D and press the shutter, the 560IIIs fire as normal, but the 560IV does not fire. The LED turns blue, confirming reseption, but never fires the flash. This is quite frustrating. And also, at 46 seconds the 560IV makes that popping noise. Right after I reduce power to 1/4 on the 560TX youll hear the pop and see the LED turn green. I will continue to buy Yongnuo products, as I think they are a great value brand. But Im not the only one having issues with the 560IV. Buy at your own risk

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Observe the attached, a pile of garbage literally. 5 completely nonfunctional flashes between 6 and 4 months old. I would not recommend purchasing these for professional photographers. Very disappointed but I got what I paid for I guess. As an event photographer this product seemed like the perfect solution for me; solid, easy to use, good light quality. Just mount them on a light stand adjust the power and start shooting, no more pocket wizards or transceivers. I purchased 7 of these this spring. 4 for off camera lighting, 2 for on camera lighting and radio transmission and 1 for backup. I had problems right from the start. First off my forehead will accidentally bump the power button, quickly causing all the synced lights to go up in power blowing out images suddenly. The first time this happened I thought my camera settings were off and just adjusted the aperture. 10 minutes later a blown out flash (thats when i figured out what had happened). Ok, my fault, moving on... next event I was careful to avoid the forehead bump issue, but somehow one of the flashes quit bursting at 1/32 and was stuck at 1/1.. nothing i could do and no settings would fix it.. it was stuck. Flash #2 trash. over the next 5 events i lost 2 more this exact same way.. somehow the camera was stuck at high power.. the display reads 1/32 but very obviously it was a full power burst. The other flash died differently, they made a quiet *POP* followed with smoke while not even in use but powered on. Lots of burning plastic smells. Thats 5 dead flashes in just 6 months of use. Obviously these flashes have some major kinks to be worked out.. I have Nikon flashes that have been used at hundreds of events and going strong but the cost is so high, I thought I could save a little money but I was wrong.

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One of my flashes quit working and I cant find warranty info on this product. I would like to replace the one that quit working. I only had these for 4 months and have not used the one that quit working very much. It quit the 3rd time out with it. I use mostly at low power too, so it couldnt have burnt out this soon. I own 9 of them and hope this will not be the case with the other ones. This is the email I received from manufacture: Dear User, Thanks for your email! This service center provides technical support and product maintenance. We are sorry that we dont provide refund/replacement service and there is no YONGNUO service center abroad for the moment. If refund/replacement is needed, please contact the seller from where you purchased this device. The warranty we provide for the defective YONGNUO product (not for human error) is free maintenance within 1 year from the date its ordered; generally, the maintenance is for free and the seller/user should pay the postage back and forth. If necessary, you can contact the seller to help you to send it back for maintenace. Or, you can send it back by yourself. Generally, the maintenance is for free and you should pay the postage back and forth. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience brings you and thank you very much for your great support for YONGNUO products! If you have any other questions, please feel free to contact us again. Best regards, YONGNUO How do I get a hold of seller?

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Bought three of these to replace my old ones and pocket wizards (which were great but I wanted the radio option). One flash lost the ability to fire at anything other than 1/128 power no matter what I set it to and was not communicating as a transmitter to the other flash consistently (like 2 out of 10 shots). One is working ok and the third hot shoe completely broke off. I went to take it out of my think tank bag and the hot shoe was in pieces. The mis firing and lack of power happen d as a the bride was coming down the aisle. Thank god for my second shooter if I would have really been screwed. NOT ACCEPTABLE at all. I loved the original 560 I had so so dissapointed in these ones.

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The Yongnuo YN560 IV with the advertised features is/would be a great flash for the money, no doubt. However, buyer be WARNED! when you purchase these. Quality Control apparently is/was not great on theses. Yongnuo, does not respond to any issues with their products, even after a couple of years of reported issues in previous version III and complaints about IV. I had purchased two (2) of the IIIs with great experience with no issues which is why when the IV came out I purchased one. Tested it at full power and half but never tested beyond that, was a big mistake. Next time I used a year later, noticed it powered off after each shot. It was firing at Full power no matter what power setting I specified (1/128) during a photo shoot. Batteries were extremely Hot! Would not recommend Yongnuo Flash until Yongnuo at least acknowledges and address this issue to us its customers. If you do buy it, I suggest the following: 1. Search online YouTube for Yongnuo YN560 IV issues. Included a link to one but not sure if Amazon will allow it. 2. Always make sure there is a money-back guarantee. 3. Test them thoroughly(ALL Features!) upon receiving them. 4. Return immediately if there are issues. 5. Add the appropriate review to at least make others aware how often this occurs. Or rate this useful and maybe we can save others and send a message to YN. [...]

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Found a used package on another well-known site and decided to give it a try - two YN560 IVs and a 560TX wireless trigger. These are for light stands with umbrellas, and the idea of adjusting output from the camera position rather than with sliders on the flash units themselves is something Ive been wishing for quite a while. The package was cheap, so I gave it a shot. But one of the flashes didnt work when unpacked - Im not downrating the product for that - so it went back to the vendor for a refund. Delivery of the used stuff took so long I decided to just get a new one in a couple of days with Amazon Prime. The new one connected properly (and wirelessly) to the TX trigger. With the TX trigger I could set the flash power and zoom, as designed, and could fire the flashes (both of em) using the test button. BUT - the new flash from Amazon would only fire one shot when the TX trigger was tripped by the camera shutter. The other flash (the used one, that worked) would keep firing whenever I pushed the shutter button, but the new one would only fire the once. If I changed a power or zoom setting for the new flash in any way from the TX, then it would fire with the shutter, but again only once. An internet search turned up others with this problem going back several years, and nobody had found a solution. (It also turned up another problem, where the unit would suddenly only fire at full power, regardless of what power setting was on the flash or set from the TX trigger. Again, something that has been around for years with no known solution.) So I sent the new one back to Amazon, and will give up on this brand for remotely controllable flash. I still like the idea of remotely adjustable flash heads, and will start looking at other brands, but not this one

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Ive been using Yongnuo YN-560 II flashes for a couple years and have had remarkable success with them. Just recently, I bought a YN-560 III and it died after 25 test flashes--totally dead. I returned it and shortly thereafter replaced it with a YN560 IV. After just two weeks of use, with an estimated 200 shots fired using low output (1/2 power a couple of times) it, too has failed. Regardless the output setting, it fires at full power. Im hoping my experience with short-lived version III and IV models is a fluke and have ordered another IV. 05/19/15 Edited Update: I received my replacement YN 560 IV and tested it out. It worked fine during 20-30 test flashes at different power outputs and various settings. I took it out on a job today and it failed after about 150 shots taken at 1/4 to 1/2 power. Similar problem as the previous one--it now only fires at full power, regardless output setting, followed by shutting off. Both were purchased from different sellers, fullfilled through Amazon, therefore Im ruling out the chance of a "bad batch of strobes." Im not sure I want to waste time and give a 3rd one a try... therefore, Im downgrading what could be an awesome strobe to a mere 1 Star. IF these were reliable, Id own 5-6 of them... too bad!

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